Exhibitions and Awards

Confirmed Exhibitions 2017

2017 – 2019 Botanical Reflections, Dogwood and Cherry Blossoms, opening 27 January 2017 at the Van Dusen Gardens, travelling as part of FAN exhibition if not sold.

Current and Recent Juried Exhibitions

2016 – 2018 – The Tie That Bind, A series of five pieces are included in a TREX (Traveling Exhibition) organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta featuring four Alberta fibre artists. Opening October 2016. This show is an invitational curated show.

2016 – My Heritage‘Ripples in Time’, Focus on Fibre Exhibition, Edmonton, AB. Awarded 2nd in Mixed Media class.

2015 – 2016 – Edge of the Forest. Look Up! Way Up! – Surface Design Association, Canadian exhibition.

2014 – 2016 – Self Portraits – Within the Artist, Alberta Society of Artists, We Are the Sum of our Past, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton; Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary; Crowsnest Pass Public Art Gallery and others as scheduled.

2014 – On the WindKansas Sunset – Hoping for a Breeze – a group exhibition, Fibre Art Network, Portals, Cowichan Valley Arts Council, Duncan BC.

2014 – What’s on the Surface? The Lure of the Open Road, Surface Design Association, Calgary Branch, Atlantis Framing and Gallery, Calgary AB.

2013 – Local Colour, two pieces, Late Season Harvest and Alberta Gold, accepted for exhibition by the Grand National Quilt Show, April 21-June 23, 2013, Homer Watson House and Gallery, Kitchener ON.

Other Current and Recent Exhibitions

2016 – Artisan Show and Sale, Contextural, a variety of about 30 items.

2016 – SelfEDGE, several pieces, woven and stitched, resulting from Contextural Summer Residency Program.

2016 – 2019 – Ekphrastic, ‘The Promise’, Fibre Art Network traveling exhibition in response to new work by twelve Canadian poets.

2016 – 2017 – Road Trip – Grand Tour: Fading Memories, SAQA Calgary, Fish Creek, Crowchild and High River Libraries,

2016 – The Mark, The Hand, the Thread, series of textural artwork, August 6 – September 18, Contextural, Leighton Art Centre.

2015 – 2017 – Canadiana 2015 – Alberta Sunshine – Waiting for the Wind to Blow, New Zealand Quilt Symposium, Palmerston North NZ and other venues.

 2015 – 2017 – On the Wind Traveling ExhibitionKansas Sunset – Hoping for a Breeze – a group exhibition, Fibre Art Network, Quilt Canada 2015 and other venues.

2013 – 2016 Abstracted, A Forest Surprise, a realistic depiction of a lichen found in a northern BC ancient forest, was paired with an abstract created by Judi MacLeod, Victoria BC for a Fibre Art Network Exhibition. The La Conner Quilt Museum, La Conner WA (October – December 2013). This is a traveling exhibition available until 2015.  Featured in 1000 Quilt Inspirations: Colorful and Creative Designs for Traditional, Modern, and Art Quilts, Sandra Sider, Quarry Books, February 2015.

2013 – 2015 Burgess Shale Fossils, Wiwaxia, part of a collection created by the Western Canada SAQA group for the TREX traveling exhibition sponsored by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. When the traveling exhibition is completed this exhibition will be donated to the Burgess Shale Interpretation Centre, Field BC.

Publications

2015 – 1000 Quilt Inspirations: Colorful and Creative Designs for Traditional, Modern, and Art Quilts, Sandra Sider, Quarry Books, February 2015.

2014 – Self Portraits: Within the Artist. The Alberta Society of Artists.

2013 – The Burgess Shale: SAQA Textile Art. SAQA Western Canada, TREX program of the Alberta Society of Artists.

2013 – Meet the Best of the West Exhibit: Travelling Western Canada SAQA Fibre Art Exhibit. SAQA Western Canada.

2013 – The Alberta Flood Rose Project. Fundraiser for Canadian Red Cross Flood Relief, Calgary AB.