After several years of working in that medium, I began to incorporate hand painting, screen printing and other forms of surface manipulation onto my fabrics. In 1994, I learned machine sewing and my art took a dramatic turn. I began to quilt the fabric that I was making for others. Long before a given piece is born, I immerse myself in the process of creating a visual surface on the fabric, an integral part of my work. This can take the form of dyeing, screen printing, hand painting or block printing.

When I begin a piece, I seldom have a preconceived notion of what it is going to look like when it is finished. One segment often builds upon another. I start a piece by selecting color, which in itself brings me joy. The colors are the springboard for the lines, shapes, and forms that follow. They relate in ways that I don’t try to interpret. I leave interpretation to the viewer. The vocabulary for my art comes from a non-verbal place. It can be experienced within the piece itself.
 

EDUCATION: 

Queens College, New York.  B.A., 1968
Rhode Island School of Design classes:

Design for Printed Textiles, 1990
Screen Printing, 1992
2-D Design, 1995

  "Surface Design", Lenore Davis, 1989
  "Printing on Cloth", Marna Epstine-Brauner, 1994
  "Improvisation", Nancy Crow, 1995
  "Fabric Intensive," Michael James, 1997

EXHIBITIONS:

 "Form Not Function," Quilt Art, Carnegie Center For Art & History. New Albany, IN. January 14 - March 19, 2005
 "Quilt = Arts = Quilts," Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY. November 6, 2004 - January 9, 2005

 "Uncommon Threads," Historic Arkansas Museum. September 2 - October 24, 2004
 "Art Quilts/New England," Brush Art Gallery & Studios. Lowell, MA. August 5 - October 31, 2004
 "Art Quilts at the Whistler II," Whistler House Museum of Art. Lowell, MA. August 4 - September 17, 2004
 "Crafts National 2004," Central PA Festival of the Arts. Zoller Gallery, School of Visual Arts of the Pennsylvania State University. June 8 - July 16, 2004
 "Art Quilts: Elements," Page-Walker Arts & History Center. Cary, NC. April 30 - May 31, 2004
 "Nathan D. Rosen Biennial," Nathan D. Rosen Museum Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida. March 21 - April 25, 2004
 "Art Quilts: Elements," sponsored by the Professional Art Quilt Alliance - South & Page Walker Art & History Center in Cary, North Carolina. April 30 - May 31, 2004

 "Art Quilts at the Sedgwick," Sedgwick Cultural Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April, 2003.

 "Colors of the Season Autumn," New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts. August 29 - November 10, 2002
 "Quilt 21/2002," Brush Gallery, American Art Quilts, Lowell, Massachusetts. 2002 - 2004
 "Dancing Between the Semicolons," An Exhibit In & Of The Cloth, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 19 - May 31, 2002
 "Life’s Fabric," Mixed Media Group Exhibition, Art Advisory/Boston,
  Milton Village, Massachusetts. September - October, 2001
 "Quilted Constructions THE SPIRIT OF DESIGN," The American Folk Art Museum, New York, New York. September, 2001- January, 2002

 "Celebrating Contemporary Crafts 2001," Providence Art Club, Providence, Rhode Island. September - October, 2001
 "Quilt National 2001," Athens, Ohio. May, 2001
 "Hanging By A Thread," Old Maine Gallery, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona. June - August, 2001
 "Art Quilt Exhibition 2001," River Oaks Square Arts Center, Alexandria, Louisiana. June - July, 2001
 "Pushing The Surface 2001," Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum,
Coshocton, Ohio. May - August, 2001
 "Fiber Directions 2001," Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas.
March - April, 2001

 "Out Of Time," San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, California. November, 2000
 "Branching Out: Quilts As Art," New Art Center, Newton, Massachusetts. September, 2000
 "Textured," Frog Hollow, Manchester, Vermont. August, 2000
 "The Good Earth," Aullwood Audubon Farm, Dayton, Ohio. May, 2000
 "Pieceworks," Art Quilts at the Sedgwick, Sedgwick Cultural Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April, 2000

 "Craft National 33," Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. May, 1999
 "Gridworks," Hera Gallery, Wakefield, Rhode Island. February, 1999

 "Ana 27," The Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana. August, 1998
 "Edge To Edge," Museum of American Folk Art, New York, New York. June, 1998
 "Craft National 32," Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. May, 1998
 "National Prize Show," Cambridge Art Association, Boston, Massachusetts. April, 1998
 "Beyond The Tradition: Art Quilts," The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. January, 1998

 "Family Portraits," Exhibition, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, Rhode Island. May, 1997
 "Natural Forces," Art Quilt Exhibition, Aullwood Audubon Farm, Dayton, Ohio. March, 1997

 "1996 National Juried Exhibition," Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island. Fall, 1996
 "Innovative Traditions 1996: New Expressions in Contemporary Quiltmaking," The Margaret Melville Blackwell History Museum at The Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York. Summer - Fall, 1996

COLLECTIONS: 

Private collections

 PUBLICATIONS:

 Fiberarts Design Book 7. April, 2004
 Folk Art: Magazine of the American Folk Art Museum. Fall, 2001
 "The Best Contemporary Quilts," Quilt National 2001. June, 2001
 "Dyes & Paints", by Elin Noble. 1997
 American Craft, Volume 58, Number 54. August/September, 1998
 Folk Art: Magazine of the Museum of American Folk Art. Summer, 1998

AWARDS:

Blue Ribbon for "Circular Reasoning." Rising Star Quilters Guild. October, 1999

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS:

Studio Art Quilt Associates
Quilters’ Connection
Friends of Fiber Art International
Rising Star Quilters Guild