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Awards:
Recent Awards:  Blue Ribbon, Best Machine quilting, AQS/Iowa 2010, "Red Petunia's" Sold, MSU collection.
                        Blue Ribbon, Best Machine workmanship, World Quilt/Florida 2010, "Kissimmee Garden"

Multiple awards and ribbons for composition, color and design in local and national quilt competitions  since 1983, including a national grand prize award for  the Best Pieced Quilt; sponsored by Better Homes and Garden Books.

Collections and Commissions:
My work can be found in both public and private collection in 17 states plus the District of Columbia.  Selected collections include, Home of the Innocents, St Jude House, & Jewish Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky
MAQS, Paducah, Kentucky, Church of the Epiphany, Anchorage, Kentucky, and Floyd Memorial Hospital, New Albany, Indiana

Current Exhibition:
Finalist: AQS Lancaster 2011 - "Kissimmee Spring"
Finalist:IQA Show, Cincinnati, 2011 - "Morning Glories"
Finalst: AQS  Paducah 2011
12 Works, Bethune Cookman University Visual Arts Gallery, Deltona Beach, FL.
Finalist AQS Iowa, 2011 "Blue Snowdrops"

Past Exhibition Venues:
Volusia Wrapped in Fiber, 10 works, Central Florida 2011
Celebrate Spring, Traveling exhibit, four venues calendar year 2011
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Gifts of Art, Feb-April, 2010
Rice University, H.E.R.E. project 2010 Sept.- Nov. 2010
Appalachian Center for Craft Gallery, Smithville, Tennessee, Solo Show
Art in American Embassy Program
Husqavarna Viking Galler of Art Quilts, an international traveling exhibit
Carnegie Center For Art and History, New Albany, Indiana, Solo Show and group shows
Louisville Visual Arts Association Water Tower Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky group show
Louisville Visual Arts Association Pegasus Gallery, Louisville International Airport, Solo show, Lou., KY
Louisville Visual Arts Association Artopia Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky Solo show
Ohio Valley Art League, Rotunda Gallery, Henderson, Kentucky, Solo and group shows
Kentucky State University Art Gallery, Frankfort ,Kentucky Featured Artist and guest Curator
Kentucky Folk Art Museum, Morehead, Kentucky, group exhibit
Museum of American Quilter's Society, Paducah, Kentucky, group exhibit
The Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Solo and group shows
Indiana University Southeast Campus Art Gallery, New Albany, Indiana, Invitational Group show
Louisville Free Public Library Main Branch Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky, Group show
Lexington Public Library Art Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky, River City Fiber Artist Group Exhibit
Bluestem Missouri Art and Craft Gallery, Featured Artist, Columbia, Missouri

Past and Present Organization Membership

River City Fiber Artist
Missouri Fiber Artist Association
Surface Design Association
Studio Art Quilt Associates
Log Cabin Fever Quilters, Orlando, FL
AQS (American Quilt Society)
AIQS(America & Internation Quilt Society)

Selected Publicatons and other Media

500 Art Quilts, publisher: Lark Books, 2010,  Poppies on Purple and Poppies on Yellow Squares
Article:The Columbian, a monthly magazine, Columbia, Missouri, 2008
Article:The Tribune Sunday edition, Columbia, Missouri, 2008
Quilts from the MAQS Permanent Collection and Their Makers, Vol 2 First and Revised edition 2009
Interview: Villionaire; art and culture, Louisville, Kentucky television market, 2007
Color, Couleur, Colore, Kulor, an exhibition catalog, 2004 From the Garden We Came
American & International Quilt Association Magazine, 2004
Article: National Quilting Association Magazine, 2003
Article:  Welcome Home Kentuckiana, a Courier-Journal Publication, 2002
International Aids Day Conference Website and Calendar, 2000
Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, 1999
Article: Kentucky Living, 1998
Kentucky Quiltmaker: A Communion of the Spirit, Roland Freedman, 1996
Visual Dance, Joen Wolfrom, 1995, Amaryllis Eigth
Documentary: The Year of the Craft, Kentucky Educational Television, 1994
Quilting International, 1993

Other Projects
Guest Curator: Audubon in Cloth, an exhibition of art quilts celebrating the life and times of J. J. Audubon
Henderson, Kentucky, Ohio Valley Art League, Rotunda Gallery, June 2010
Guest Curator: Spoken with Hands, an exhibit of quilts and fiber art, OVAL, Rotunda Gallery, Henderson, KY
Advsor/Cosultant/Jurist: Form Not Function; art quilts at the Carnegie, Carnegie Center for Art & History
New Albany, Indiana, 2001-2008
Consultant/curator: New York Quilt Festival, New York City, NY 1994
Quilt Project Co-ordinator, Sister Cities International Conference, Louisville, KY 1993
Consultant, Capital Quilt Festival, Frankfort, Kentucky 1993