EDUCATION
MFA: Fiberarts; BS Art Education; Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Professor of Art and Head of Fibers Program; Kutztown University; Kutztown, PA 1992-2011
Previous Teaching Positions:
North Carolina State University; Raleigh, North Carolina
Weber University; Ogden, Utah
Virginia Commonwealth University; Richmond, Virginia
Kent State University; Kent, Ohio
GRANT ACQUISITIONS
Visual Arts Fellowship in Crafts; Pennsylvania Council on the Arts 2001, 1997
Kutztown University Research Grant 2009, 1999
PA State System of Higher Education Faculty Professional Development Grant 1996
REVIEWS WRITTEN
An Exploration of Labyrinths, New Work by Ted Hallman; Fiberarts Magazine; Summer 2006
Silk Drawings by Akiko Kotani; Surface Design Journal; winter 2004
Poetry in a Steel Mill: Tapestries by Mildred T. Johnstone; Fiberarts Magazine; summer 2003
SELECTED LECTURES
Lecture: Reuse, Recycle, ReCreate: Quilter’s Guilds in Milford, NJ and Bethlehem, PA, 2017-2019
Contemporary Art Quilts; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA 2014
My Work; Philadelphia Weavers Guild; 2014
My Work; Peters Valley School of Craft; Layton, NJ 2014, 2005, 2002
My Work; Art Quilt Network New York, 2010
Color Can’t Hurt You; Embroiderers Guild of Allentown, Allentown, PA 2010
Art Quilts of the 21st Century; International Quilt Festival; Houston, TX 2006
My Work; Allentown Art Museum Textile Club; Allentown PA 2005
Contemporary American Fiberart: Universidad del Azuay and Universidad de Cuenca; Cuenca, Ecuador 2004
The Art of Contemporary Quiltmaking; Reading, PA Public Museum 2004
Contemporary Needlework: Not Your Grandmother’s Sampler; Fiberart Guild of Pittsburgh, PA 2003
Invitational Lectures for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council Speakers Program, 2002-2003:
Contemporary Art Quilts; Erie Art Museum, Chester Library, Newport Arts Council
Not Just Pretty Pictures: Today’s Needlearts; Lebanon Library, Allentown Art Museum
Guest Lecturer on Contemporary American Crafts; 1997:
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design; Birmingham, England
Glasgow School of Art; Glasgow, Scotland
A Serious But Irreverent View of Contemporary Art; Reading Public Museum; Reading, PA 1995
SELECTED WORKSHOPS
Quilt Workshop; FRIEDA Community, Philadelphia, PA
Peters Valley School of Craft; Layton, NJ
Experimental Quiltmaking
Mixed Media Textile Surfaces
Textile Collage
Needlework: Basics and Beyond
Silkscreen Printed Fabric and Art Quilts; with Wendy Osterweil; Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Summer Intensive; Philadelphia, PA
Designing Quilts From Your Own Screenprinted Fabric; with Wendy Osterweil; Kutztown University
Summer Graduate Program
Mixed Media Textile Surfaces; with Kathleen Reider; Kutztown University Summer Graduate Program
Knotless Net Forms; Universidad del Azuay; Cuenca, Ecuador
Non-Traditional Needlework; Erie Art Museum; Erie, PA
Non-Traditional Needlework; Fiberart Guild of Pittsburgh, PA
Ideas: Creating New Ones by Unblocking the Ordinary, Convergence 98 Weavers Conference; Atlanta, GA
Non-Traditional Needlework; Reading Public Museum; Reading, PA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
(Photographs in Books, Exhibition Reviews of my work)
The Language of Making: Visual Voices from theTextile Study Group of New York
International Art Quilts: Abstracts and Geometrics; Shiffer Publishing
Hyperallergic Magazine, “Quirky Quilts Inspired by the Periodic Table”
The Easton, PA Irregular
Artists in Residence, photographs by Luke Wynn
FiberArt Now
Surface Design Journal
500 Baskets; Lark Books
Explorations in Art, Grades K-8; Davis Publications
Art Quilts, A Celebration; Lark Books
Fiberarts Design Book; Volumes Two-Seven
El Mercurio; Cuenca, Ecuador
Fiberarts Magazine
Le Courrier Picard; Beauvais, France
Philadelphia Inquirer
Scholars; The State System of Higher Education
Easton, PA Express-Times
The Fray; collaborative embroidery and poetry chapbook; with Heather Thomas
The Best in Contemporary Quilts: Quilt National 1999; Lark Books
Fiberart International Exhibition 99 used my work on the invitation, website and banners
The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship Recipients Catalog
American Craft Magazine
Diversity Exhibition catalogue; cover art
Baltimore Sun
Art Papers Journal
The Guild
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museum of Arts and Design; New York, New York
Lehigh Valley Health Care Network; Allentown, PA
Cardiac Specialists; Center for Advanced Health Care; Allentown, PA
Allentown Art Museum; Allentown, Pennsylvania
Music Department; Kutztown University; Kutztown, Pennsylvania
Lock Haven University; Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
Carolina Power and Light; Raleigh, North Carolina
Howard & Green, L.L.P.; Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic; Raleigh, North Carolina
Bell Northern Research; Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
St. Patrick Hospital; Missoula, Montana
First Interstate Bank; Salt Lake City, Utah
American Express Company; Salt Lake City, Utah
LaGrange College; LaGrange, Georgia
Phillips Gallery; Salt Lake City, Utah
Mesa United Bank; Grand Junction, Colorado
Richmond, Virginia Public Schools
numerous private collections
