Awards

Awards and Exhibitions

Red Orange and Vivid Violet (Crayola Series) (2008)
Hand-dyed cotton rope.
12” H x 11” W x 7.5” D
Handweavers Guild of America’s Small Expressions 2009 Exhibition

Awards

2009 PONCHO artist-in-residence, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle

Second place award for Knots Decrease Working Loads by 50% (Ace Hardware rope series), Handweavers Guild of America’s River of Grass 2008 exhibition, 2008

Second place award for Web of My Evening, Puget Sound Bead Festival Beaded Inspirations, 2004

Exhibitions

July 2011, three-person exhibition, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle

January 2011, group exhibition, Oasis Gallery, Seattle

August – September 2010, Things We Hunt exhibition, Northwest Designer Craftsmen, Allied Arts Association, Richland, Wash.

2010 - ongoing, various storefronts and public venues through the Community Artists Program, Seattle

February – June 2010, New Perspectives – Novel Interpretations group exhibition, University House Wallingford, Seattle.

January – February 2010, Handle with Care Exhibition, Bead + Fiber Gallery, Boston.

PONCHO Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Pratt Gallery, Tashiro Kaplan Building, Seattle, September 2009.

Red Orange and Vivid Violet (Crayola series), Handweavers Guild of America’s Small Expressions 2009 (juried), Mississippi Craft Center, February - May, and Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, Iowa, June - September 2009.

Not Recommended for Use Where Personal Safety is Involved (Ace Hardware rope series) , Nothing New (juried), Textile Center Gallery, Minneapolis, June - July 2009.

Yellow Green and Razzle Dazzle Rose (Crayola series), Web and Flow (juried), Textile Center Gallery, Minneapolis, March - April 2009.

Alien Nest Egg #1, Containers, Containment and Contents (juried), Northwest Designer Craftsmen and Northwest Basket Weavers Guild, Art Council of Snohomish, Everett, Wash., January - February 2009.

Turquoise Blue and Peach (Crayola series), CRAFT USA ‘08 National Craft Triennial (juried), Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, Conn., November – December 2008.

22nd Valentine and Rain Forest, Dancing Hands (juried), Springfield Museum, Springfield, Ore., November 2008 - January 2009.

Nana Iro (7 Colors) and Knots Decrease Working Loads by 50% (Ace Hardware rope series), Handweavers Guild of America’s River of Grass 2008 (juried), Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, Florida, June 2008.

Raspberry Tea, Handweavers Guild of America’s Small Expressions 2008 (juried), Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa Florida, April - July 2008.

Hemorrhage, Bead International 2008 exhibition (juried), touring various U.S. venues through 2010

We Are Here - A Beaded Map (collaboration with Nancy Strahle), Absolutely Beads Exhibition (juried), Bellevue, Wash., December 2007.

Egg Basket, Small Repetitive Motions student show, University of Washington Fiber Arts certificate program, All City Coffee Gallery, Seattle, Wash., June 2007.

Ventricles, Handweavers Guild of America's Small Expressions 2007 exhibition (juried), Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska - Lincoln and Indianapolis Art Center, 2007.

No. 3 in the Semolina Series: Rigatoni, Stretching the Threads group exhibition (juried), Atlantic Center for the Arts at Harris House, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, April 2007.

Push-up Purse (Thank God I’m an A-Cup or I Never Would Have Made the Deadline), Beadwork magazine’s Beaded Bag exhibition (juried), BeadExpo, Oakland, Calif., April 2007.

Jewelry and sculpture, Wondrous Water group exhibition, University House Gallery, Issaquah, Wash., September 2006 - January 2007.

Soft 'n' Stone, To Hold Within: Redefining the Container group exhibition (juried), Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, Wash., November 2006.

Jewelry and sculpture, Intersections exhibition (juried), the Gallery at Bainbridge Arts & Crafts, Bainbridge Island, Wash., October 2006.

No. 2 in the Semolina Series: Penne, Bead International 2006 Exhibition (juried), touring various U.S. venues through 2008.

Web of My Clavicle, Puget Sound Bead Festival Beaded Inspirations (juried), Tacoma, Wash., 2005.
Bead & Button Show Bead Dreams (juried), Milwaukee, WI, 2004.

Web of My Evening, Puget Sound Bead Festival Beaded Inspirations (juried), Tacoma, Wash., 2004.
Absolutely Beads Exhibition (juried), Bellevue, Wash., 2004.

Transformer 2, Absolutely Beads Exhibition (juried), Bellevue, Wash., 2004.

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