| SELECTED TEACHING RESIDENCIES 2007-09 - The Society of Yoruba Bead Artists (SYBA) Artist Residency Program 1997- Present - Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Artists in Education Program. 2002 Cuyahoga Valley National Park Association. (8-week Artist-in-Residence Program; workshops with staff and students and to pursue personal work). (Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council.) 2001 McKeesport, PA School District (Supported by the Surdna Foundation, New York, NY; and PA Council on the Arts) 2000 Cornell Middle School, McKeesport, PA (Supported by the Surdna Foundation, New York, NY; and PA Council on the Arts) 1999 Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, New York EXHIBITIONS CURATED 2009 Transformation, The Society of Yoruba Bead Artists, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA 2008 Passages, Eastside Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 2008 Textile Interiors, ARTica, Pittsburgh, PA 2001 Perspectives, City County Building, City of Pittsburgh 2000 I Can Still Quilt Without My Glasses; Artisans: Slave Antique and Contemporary Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; and Merrick Art Gallery, New Brighton, PA SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2006 Excavation, Art Quilts to Mine the Soul. Abyssinia LLC, Pittsburgh, PA 1999 Stitched From the Heart. Campbell Gallery, Sewickley Academy, Sewickley, PA Back to the Source: An Oracle. Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA 1997 The Creative Connection: Ancestral & Beyond, Foreland Street Studio, Pittsburgh, PA AWARDS 2009 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Apprenticeships in Folk and Traditional Arts (Master Quilter) 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Apprenticeships in Folk and Traditional Arts (Apprentice Yoruba BeadWork) 2006 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Apprenticeships in Folk and Traditional Arts (Apprentice Yoruba Bead Work) 2000 Surdna Foundation, Multi-year grant, field/studio work, artist residencies. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS 2003 Silver Lake Senior Care Facility, Pittsburgh, PA. Nurture Clubs, The Healing Space, Pittsburgh, PA. 2002 Children’s Defense Fund, Langston Hughes Library, Former Alex Haley Farm, Clinton, TN. 2000 Housing Authority, City of Pittsburgh. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2009 Transformation, The Society of Yoruba Bead Artists, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA 2008 Passages. Eastside Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 2008 Sugar and Spice. ARTica, Pittsburgh, PA 2005 The Healing Power of Art. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Horizon Womancare Center, Hermitage, Pennsylvania. 2004 Artist as Quiltmaker. Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH. Threads of Faith. The Gallery at the American Bible Society, New York, NY (Traveling Exhibition.) 2003 Commissioned as costume designer for the theatre production, Good Morning Revolution, Sankofa, produced by the African Grove Performance Ensemble, Pittsburgh, PA Quilters and Preservers of Western Pennsylvania. Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center, in Association with the Smithsonian Institution, Pittsburgh, PA 2002 Finding Voice, Creating Vision. National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN. The Spirit of the Cloth: African American Quilts Today. 1999 through 2002. American Craft Museum, New York. 2001 Threads of Freedom: The Underground Railroad Story in Quilts. Firelands Association for the Visual Arts and Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization, Oberlin, Ohio. Threads Unraveled - Stories Revealed. NBC Gallery, New York; General Electric Gallery, Connecticut; University of Michigan Women’s Center. 2000 A Gathering of Women; A Healing Place; 1000 Expressions of Life. The Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA; The Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Library Logan Square, Philadelphia, PA and the Paul Robeson Gallery of the Pennsylvania State University, University Park First Fruit. 2005, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997 - Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA Repetition and Rhythm, Group A., The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA African Americana, The African American Art & Cultural Appreciation Council, New Rochelle, New York 1999 Fiberart Regional Focus 99, The Society for Contemporary Crafts Mellon Bank Satellite Gallery and Northland Public Library Gallery, Pittsburgh, Merging at the Crossroads. Women of Visions, Inc., Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Swing Low, Sweet in the Mornin’. AIA Pittsburgh Gallery and Foreland Street Studio, Pittsburgh, PA 1998 Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA A Twisted Valentine, Woman’s Work Art Gallery, Pittsburgh 1997 Threads of Experience, Seton Hill College, Greensburg, PA BOOKS Bleiweiss, Sue and Stegmiller, Terri. Creative Ways with Books and Journals, Two Creative Studios, 2009 Mazloomi, Carolyn and Pongracz, Patricia C. Threads of Faith, The Gallery at the American Bible Society, New York, 2004 Davis, Barbara and Larsen, Susan. With Sacred Threads, Quilting and the Spiritual Life, United Church Press, Ohio, 2001 Mazloomi, Carolyn. Spirits of the Cloth; Contemporary African American Quilts, Clarkson Potter, New York, 1998 PERIODICALS, NEWSPAPERS Thomas, Mary. “Beads bring ‘Transformation’ to Art Center,” Post Gazette, (Pittsburgh, PA), April 8, 2009. Also online text and video: http: //www.post-gazette.com/multimedia/?videoID=101743, and http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09098/961212-437.stm Shaw, Kurt. “Associated Artists celebrates 99th anniversary,” Pittsburgh Tribune Review, (Pittsburgh, PA), February 25, 2009, http://pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/mostread/s_613401.html Brandolph, Adam. “Festival Threads Cultures Together,” Your Sewickley, (Sewickley, PA), September 13, 2007. http://www.yoursewickley. com/sewickleyherald/article/festival-threads-cultures-together Black Arts Quarterly, Stanford University’s Committee on Black Performing Arts, Wild Continuity. (Stanford, CA), Winter 2006 Black Arts Quarterly, Stanford University’s Committee on Black Performing Arts, Cover: Olookun, Underwater Mysteries. (Stanford, CA), Summer 2005 Smith, Pohla. “Good Morning Revolution, Sankofa,” Post-Gazette.com, (Pittsburgh, PA), http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20031111shorttake1111fnp5.asp Meyer, Diana Lamdin. “Artists Add to History at National Parks,” The Crafts Report, (Wilmington, DE), April 2003 Thomas, Mary. “Domestic Ojbects Become Objects d’art in African American Quilt Exhibit,” Post Gazette.Com, (Pittsburgh, PA), January 25, 2003. http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/ae/20030125quilts0125fnp5.asp Johnson, Patricia C. “Quilts Bring Pieces of History Back to Life,” Houston Chronicle, (Houston, TX), October 30, 2001 Thomas, Mary. “Fiber Twists Into Expression,” Post Gazette, (Pittsburgh, PA), October 13, 2001 Hornbrook, Kathy. “Quilt Show Depicts Underground Railroad,” The Morning Journal (Loraine, OH), June 8, 2001 Thomas, Mary. “Best of Art 2000,” Post Gazette, (Pittsburgh, PA), December 20, 2000 Nejman, Jennifer. “Plenty of Ideas, Expressions and Stitching,” The Daily News (McKeesport, PA), November 2, 2000 Shaw-Eagle, Joanna. “Piecing Together a Cultural Fabric,” Washington Times (Washington, DC), October 14, 2000 “The African Eagle,” Ready to Read Early Literacy Project, Community House Learning Technology Center (Pittsburgh, PA), Video and Accompanying Pamphlet, August 2000 Thomas, Mary. “Spirit Sewn Into Fiberart,” Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA), May 6, 2000 Quinn, Sally. “African History Runs Deep,” Tribune Review (Pittsburgh, PA), April 13, 2000 Shearing, Graham. “Sewing Seeds and Submerging Egos,” Tribune Review (Pittsburgh, PA), March 31, 2000 Wilson, Gladys Blews. “Storytellers,” Beaver County Times, March 31, 2000 Farrish, Jean, S. “Fiber Art,” New Pittsburgh Courier (Pittsburgh, PA), February 13, 1999 Farrish, Jean, S. “Northside Fiber Art,” New Pittsburgh Courier (Pittsburgh, PA), January 23, 1999 Wilson, Gladys Blews. “Dream Quilts,” Beaver County Times, January 29, 1999 Breton-Carroll, Beverly. “Artist Seams Quilting & History Together,” Tribune Review (Pittsburgh, PA), September 21, 1997 |
