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

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