Honors and Exhibits
2007
  • Quilt National, The Dairy Barn, Athens, OH
  • Women’s Journeys in Fiber – Purse-n-alities, The Anderson Arts Center, Racine, WI
  • Solo Exhibition, The Raue Center for the Arts, Crystal Lake, IL
2006
  • Form Not Function, Art Quilts at the Carnegie, Evansville, IN
  • Blooming Botanicals, The Fine Art of Fiber, Glencoe, IL
  • Women’s Journeys in Fiber, The Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
  • Quilt Expo, Beaver Dam, WI
  • Never Static, Art Cloth at the Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN
  • Art and Soul of Quilting, Anderson Arts Center, Racine, WI
  • Solo Show, Rolling Meadows Library, IL
  • Blooming Botanicals, Anderson Arts Center, Racine, WI
  • Color, Coleur, Colore, Kulor, Touring Exhibit, UK, Denmark, France, Austria Switzerland, Japan, Australia
  • Quilt National Touring Exhibit, multiple locations
2005
  • Quilt National, The Dairy Barn Gallery, Athens, OH
  • Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie,
  • Nothing New: Fiber Art from Recycled Materials,
    Color, Coleur, Colore, Kulor, Touring Exhibit, UK, Denmark, France, Austria Switzerland, Japan, Australia
  • Solo show at The Northwest Community Hospital, Arlington Heights, IL
  • Sacred Threads, Reynoldsburg, OH
  • Spring International Quilt Festival, Rosemont, IL
  • Road to California, CA
  • Art Quilt Journeys, PAQA South, Cary, NC
  • Fabric by Design Transitions exhibit, Northwest Cultural Council, Rolling Meadows, IL
  • Keiko and Friends, The Fineline Creative Art Center, St. Charles, IL
  • Constants and Variables, Surface Design Association , Kansas City, MO
2004
  • Art Cloth 2004: Committed to Cloth, Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, England and Knit and Stitch Conference, London, England
  • Tactile Architecture, International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX
  • Masterpieces: Color, Couleur, Colore, Kulör! Husqvarna Viking finalist, International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX
  • Finalist (2 pieces) International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX
  • Art Quilts at the Whistler, Whistler Museum of Art, Lowell, MA
  • Expressions in Textiles, Art cloth, Glastonbury, CT
  • Barrington Area Arts Council Show, Barrington, IL
  • Quilt Surface Design Symposium art cloth exhibition, Columbus, OH
  • Two person show at Assurance Corporate Gallery, Rolling Meadows, IL
  • FACET Exhibit, Chicago Artists Month, Concordia College, River Forest, IL
  • Circles and Cycles exhibit of art cloth, Mendocino College, Mendocino, CA
2003
  • Barrington Arts Council Exhibit
  • Commission piece for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C.
  • Quilt Surface Design Symposium Fabric, Columbus, OH
  • Quilt National 01 Touring Exhibit
  • The Chicago Athenaeum FACET Show
  • Small Works, Two x Two traveling exhibit
  • Unilever Corporate Gallery Exhibit
  • Tumbling Blocks, New Quilts from Old Favorites, The Museum of American Quilt Society, Paducah, KY Traveling exhibit
  • Up Close and Far Away, Surface Design Association, Kansas City, MO
2002
  • International Quilt Festival (2 finalist pieces)
  • Art Quilts at the Sedgwick, Sedgwick Cultural Center, Philadelphia, PA
  • Fiber Arts: Patterns and Impressions, Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
  • 7th Quilt Nihon finalist, Tokyo Museum of Art, 2002-2003
  • Art in the Barn (Best in Medium Award)
  • Tumbling Blocks, New Quilts from Old Favorites, The Museum of American Quilt Society, Paducah, KY (Award)
  • World Quilt and Textile (2 pieces)
  • Quilt Surface Design Symposium Fabric, Columbus, OH
  • Quilt National 01 Touring Exhibit
  • The Night Sky, The Aullwood Center, Dayton, Ohio (Award)
  • Professional Art Quilt Alliance Challenge, St. Charles, IL (Award
  • Professional Art Quilt Alliance Small Works, The Museum of American Quilt Society, Paducah, KY
  • 21st Century Quilts, The Chicago Athenaeum, Schaumburg,IL
  • Women’s Works, Northwest Area Arts Council, The Courthouse Gallery, Woodstock, IL
2001
  • Quilt National, Dairy Barn Cultural Center, Athens, OH
  • Earthues Solo Show, Earthues Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • Quilt Surface Design Symposium Fabric, Columbus, OH (Honorable Mention)
  • Fine Line, Fine Surface, The Fine Line, St. Charles, IL (Honorable Mention)
  • World Quilt and Textile Exhibit, Lansing, MI, Greensboro, NC
  • Art Cloth II: Inspiration and Idea, International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX
  • American Quilt Society Show and Contest, Paducah, KY
  • Nothing New: Fiber Art from Recycled Materials, Textile Center of Minnesota, MN
  • Professional Art Quilt Alliance Small Works, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
  • International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX
  • National Quilting Associates,Tulsa, OK
  • Women’s Works, Northwest Area Arts Council, The Courthouse Gallery, Woodstock, IL
  • Fine Art of Fiber, The Chicago Botanic Garden
  • Art in the Valley, Bull Valley, IL
2000
  • Yokohama Quilt Festival, Yokohama, Japan
  • Women’s Works, Northwest Area Arts Council, The Courthouse Gallery, Woodstock, IL
  • Fine Art of Fiber, The Chicago Botanic Garden