fiber artist
Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
Waste Not, solo show at Gilsland Farm Audubon Center, 20 Gilsland Farm Road, Falmouth, ME, March 6 – April 28, 2024
Metamorphosis: Recycled, Repurposed, Reimagined, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD, February 9 – April 21, 2024
Where Are We From and Where Do We Go?, Boston University Graduate Program in Arts Administration and
The Goethe-Institut, 170 Beacon Street, Boston, MA, April 9-14, 2024
Past Exhibitions
2024
Exploring the World of Fibers 2024, LexArt, Lexington, MA
figure, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
2023
Brush with Nature, Maine Audubon, Gilsland Farm, Falmouth, ME
Water: UMVA Juried Member Show, Maine Union of Visual Artists, Portland, ME
The Fabric of Life, Arts League of Lowell, Lowell, MA
Altered, Maine Fiberarts, Topsham, ME
In Balance/Imbalance, Maine Union of Visual Artists and Maine Arts Journal, Portland
Love in Action: Joy, Community, Creativity Art in the park, Worcester, MA
100: Marking the Attleboro Arts Museum's Centennial, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
(EM)power (EM)brace (EM)body, Surface Design Association, online exhibit
Seeing Red, Art Fluent, online exhibit
Labor of Life: Textiles & Fibers, Arlington Center for the Arts, 20 Academy St, Arlington, MA
2023 Members Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, 25 Lowell Street, Cambridge, MA
Talking Points, Cambridge Art Association, at the Cambridge College’s Town Common Gallery, Cambridge, MAEnchanted Elements, Maine Fiberarts, Topsham, ME
Water, Art Show International Gallery, online exhibit
Small Expressions 2022, Handweavers Guild of America, UT Downtown Gallery in Knoxville, TN; Aiken Center for the Arts in Aiken, SC; Arts & Heritage Center in North Augusta, SC; Yadkin Valley Fiber Center in Elkin, NC; Studio 203 in Los Angeles, CA
2022
Paper Chase, Maine Fiberarts, Topsham, ME
New England Collective XII, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
Summer Surprise! LexArt, Lexington, MA
Boundaries, 6 Bridges Gallery, Maynard, MA
The Elements, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Members Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Kathryn Schulz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Exploring the World of Fibers, LexArt, Lexington, MA
2021
Co-Curator and exhibitor, with Laurie Bogdan, for 2021 Art Ramble: Something in the Air, The Umbrella Arts Center, Hapgood Wright Town Forest, Concord, MA
Wild Hideaways: Designed for Adventure, with Laurie Bogdan, Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Boylston, MA
Confluence, collaborative piece with Laurie Bogdan, was installed on the Assabet River Bridge in Maynard, MA and at Spy Pond Park, Arlington, MA. These installations were funded in part by a grant from the Maynard Cultural Council and a grant from the Grants Committee of the Arlington Commission for Arts and Culture, both local agencies funded by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
2021 Emerging Artist Exhibition, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
The Equinox - When Light and Dark are Equal Worldwide, New England Sculptors Association, Boston, MA
The Art of Possibilities, Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute, Minneapolis, MN
By Hand: Illuminating the Bond Between Artist and Material, an invitational exhibition at the Attleboro Arts Museum Attleboro, MA
2020, Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery at Worcester State University, Worcester, MA
Bodies, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
FACING YOU: A Portraits Show, Belmont Gallery of Art, Belmont, MA
Habitat, 6 Bridges Gallery, Maynard, MA. My piece "Sanctuary" was granted the 6 Bridges Gallery Award.
Valdosta National 2021, Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA
Winter 2021 Art Show, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA
2020
Artful Nature: Pattern, Color, Texture, Belmont Gallery of Art, Belmont, MA
Mary Schein Fall Salon, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
RED! Webster Arts, Webster Groves, MO
Members in Print 2, Basketry +, National Basketry Organization
Threaded: Contemporary Fiber in New England, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
2020 Art Ramble, collaboration with Laurie Bodgdan, The Umbrella Arts Center Hapgood Wright Town Forest, Concord, MA.
2019
Through the Surface, 6 Bridges Gallery, Maynard, MA
Migration, The Umbrella Community Arts Center, Concord, MA
Spring Awakening, Belmont Gallery of Art, Belmont, MA
Arlington Open Studios, Arlington, MA
No Place Like Home, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
2018
Small Works Show, Belmont Gallery of Art, Belmont, MA
Monster Misunderstood, Belmont Gallery of Art, Belmont, MA
Arlington Open Studios, Arlington, MA
2017
Illumination, Gallery Blink, Lexington, MA
Arlington Open Studios, Arlington, MA
The Fabrication of Imagination, Arts League of Lowell, Lowell, MA
Collaborative Work
2020
Mask Prayer Flags Project: public art installation conceived by Johnny Lapham and co-organized by me and Johnny. This project includes a large mask-like banner with painted expressions of gratitude to essential workers, and a string of prayer-flag inspired mask -flags. The flags were made by community volunteers. The intention is to show thanks and to encourage mask wearing This work is installed at Arlington Global Service Station, Arlington, MA.
2019-2020
Persistence: A Community Response to Pervasive Plastic: public art installation (work in progress), conceived and overseen by Michelle Lougee in Arlington, MA. This work involves community members creating plarn and crocheting elements that will be combined by Michelle into several sculptures to be displayed on the Minuteman Bikeway, Arlington, MA. I am on the advisory committee as well as a contributor for this work.
2019
Out for a Walk: a work by five members of the Surface Design Association of MA/RI for the exhibit “Please Touch the Art” at the Mosesian Center for the Arts. Each artist created their own pieces which were united in theme, color, and dimensions with the other works. This show was intended to accessible to the visually impaired.
2017
RIPPLE: public art installation conceived and organized by Adria Arch. In this project 57 community members crocheted or knitted elements that were combined and installed on trees on Minuteman Bikeway, Arlington, MA.