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 Artist's Statement: I am a fiber artist who uses layering of textiles and embellishments to convey impressions of nature. All my life I have enjoyed nature and being out in the world of trees, water and wild life. As I create my own art, I am drawn to these enduring passions. My subject matter often evokes a fond memory of my youth and one that has broader implications. I use the repetitions and patterns in nature as metaphor for life’s cycles. My recent work - featuring patterns of tree leaves and late summer seeds - is a metaphor for the riches discovered in life’s maturity. My art gives me the opportunity to explore specific moments in time when nature shows her finest – a spring blossom, fall colors, sunlight moving across the snow, morning frost on fall leaves, or Sandhill cranes dancing in the morning mist. My best work is when I dig into a subject and go to the very essence of what I know about it. The traditional quilting medium is my springboard for artistic expression. While quilting as a woman’s art form is often unrecognized as art, I embrace this form and want to help others recognize the artistic element that has been part of the quilting tradition. I work in this medium because fabric and thread resonate with my soul. I work with fabric because I love it. I love the look of it, the feel of it and all its varieties. For me, I delight in finding a wonderful fabric that speaks to me, and then find a way to combine it with other wonderful fabrics for a whole new creation. My favorite art form is sculpture, and quilting provides a variation of low relief sculpture. My work brings together a number of different threads of my life: my love of fabric, color and texture; my historical interests, my love of nature, and my interest in women’s art and work. I endeavor to share my ongoing passions for color, texture, fabrics and threads with the viewer. One of my greatest delights is when a new viewer approaches my work with the emotional memories of “my grandmother used to quilt” and suddenly exclaims with wonder: “This is ART!” Biography: Nancy’s art quilts have a graphic quality and at the same time, provide an experience of intimacy. Nancy’s textile art features impressions of nature through layered and embellished fabrics; her fabric choices vary from purchased hand dyed silk and cottons to synthetic velour. Her quilting often creates a variation of low relief sculpture. Her color palette varies from intense to minimal as the subject matter warrants. In addition to creating one of a kind textile art, Nancy lectures, teaches workshops and does commission work. She has been working in this medium since 1994, retiring from working in industrial /organizational psychology to work full time in art in 2001. Her work is in numerous private and public collections throughout the USA. Nancy was awarded a solo show from January to April 2007 at the Anderson Arts Center in Kenosha, WI, based on her work in the 2006 Art and Soul of Quilting exhibition. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and she has won numerous awards. And All That Jazz was exhibited at Hoeri, Lake Konstanz, Germany in 2005. Summer Confection was in a special exhibit in The Hague, the Netherlands in 2004. A solo show, Rhythms of Nature, was held in 2003. Her art textiles have been published in magazines and books, including a piece on the cover of Creative Quilting: The Journal Quilt Project in 2006. Other works were published in Portfolio 13 SAQA in 2006 and Portfolio 14 SAQA in 2007. American Quilter Magazine published her article: Techniques for 3 Dimensional Appliqué featuring three of her quilts and a variety of dimensional appliqué techniques in the Spring 2004 issue. She was a 2004 Summer Affiliate Artist at the McColl Center for Visual Arts. Also in 2004 and again in 2007, she was the recipient of the Charlotte Quilters’ Guild Education Grant. She was given the Award of Excellence at the 2004 Art and Soul of Quilting, Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI. In 2003, she received a Regional Artist Project Grant from the Arts and Science Councils of Charlotte, Mecklenburg and surrounding counties. Resume: Selected Exhibitions: 2009
2007 Education Grant, Charlotte Quilters' Guild Arts and Science Council Scholarship for Creative Capital Established Artists Professional Development Conference, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte, NC, 2007 Solo Show Award, The Art and Soul of Quilting, Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI, 2006 Affiliate Artist, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Summer Program, 2004 2004 Arts & Science Council Regional Artist Project Grant, Charlotte/Meck. Inc., Charlotte, NC 2004 Educational Grant, Charlotte Quilters’ Guild, Charlotte, NC Honorable Mention, Small Art Quilts, International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, 2004 Award of Excellence, The Art and Soul of Quilting, Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI, 2004 Award of Merit- Humor, 2003 Asheville Quilt Show and Competition, Asheville, NC Judges Choice Award, Old Church Gallery Quilters Show, Martinsville, VA, 2001 Arboretum Award, Asheville Quilt Show, Asheville, NC, 2001 Bibliography (publications including her art): SAQA Journal, Winter 2008, p 15 Creative Quilting – The Journal Quilt Project, Karey Bresenhan, Ed., November 2006, Cover, Pgs 142-143 Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. Portfolio 13, November 2006, Pg 36 Studio Art Quilt Associates Portfolio 12, November 2005, Pg 38 The Best of SAQA, CD, November 2005 Quilts: A World of Beauty, Journal of IQA, Winners Gallery, Art, Small, Spring 2005, V. 25, No 4, pp 18-20 Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. Portfolio 12, 2005, Pg 38 Denton Orator, August 24, 2005 Thomasville Times, August 25, 2005 The Dispatch, August 24, 2005 Art QUILT Art Catalogue, October, 2004, Cover, pg 22 The PENN Online, September 20, 2004 Focus on Batiks, Jan Bode Smiley, C & T Publishers, Spring 2004, Pg 53 Charlotte Observer, May 13, 2001, pg 2F, February 18, 2004 and October 2003 The Art of the Quilt 4th Biennial Invitational Exhibition Catalogue, 2004 Quilting Arts magazine, September 2002, pg 68 The Art of the Quilt, 3rd Biennial Invitational Exhibition Catalogue, 2002 Publications (by her): Planning is Key for a Successful Regional Conference, SAQA Journal, Spring 2008, pp 12-13 Techniques in Dimensional Appliqué, American Quilter Magazine, Spring 2004, pp 40-43 Stop! Don’t Cut up or Throw out That Quilt, Senior Directions, March 2000, pg 6 Quilts: From Necessity to Self Expression, 2004, 27 pages Consulting, Presentations, Workshops: Consultant for Mint Museum of Craft + Design for Fiberart International 2007 Exhibition Creating Line and Texture with Hand Embellishments, workshop for Charlotte Quilters’ Guild The Generosity of Quilters, lecture, 2007 Spirituality through the Arts, Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte, December 2006 From Art Dropout to Art Quilter, lecture, 2005 Spirituality through the Arts, Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte, February 2005 Consultant for Mint Museum of Craft + Design, for American Quilt Classics, 1800-1980: The Bresler Collection, docent training, August 2003 Coordinator- 2 invitational quilt shows, Charlotte Institute of Art, November 2002, February 2003 Consultant, Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Quilts from the Carolinas docent training, April, 2002 Panelist for Mint Museum of Craft + Design on Quilting in Families, March 2000; educational program for Spirits of the Cloth exhibition Quilting demonstrations for Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte Quilters’ Guild, Charlotte Visitors’ Center Professional and Related Volunteer Memberships: Surface Design Association Studio Art Quilt Associates – Professional Member Professional Art Quilt Alliance – South – Founding member International Quilting Association Fiber ART Options - Founding member McColl Center for Visual Arts – Steering Committee for Post-Modern Needleworks Exhibition 2004 Charlotte Quilters’ Guild: 1st Vice President, June 2002-May 2003; Program Chair, June 2001 – May 2002; CQG Liaison with the Mint Museum – September 2003- June 2009 Mint Museum of Craft + Design – Docent, American Quilt Classics, 1800-1980: The Bresler Collection Education: BA, Queens College, Charlotte, NC; MA, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Arrowmont – Elizabeth Barton, 2004 Split Rock Arts Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN – Susan Brandeis, 2007 Quilt Surface Design Symposium, Sessions 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Design and Composition Coursework with painting instructors Sally Miller of Charlotte, NC in 2003; Ned Wert of Brush Valley, PA in 2002 and 2003 |
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