I am an Art Quilter and instructor in rural Pennsylvania. I love creating with fabric, thread with a little bit of inks, acrylics and oils.

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

Year Venue Location

2024 Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA
2023 Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, Virginia
2023 Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
2022 Indiana Dunes National Park Porter, Indiana
2022 Homestead National Historical Park Beatrice, Nebraska
2021 Fort Union National Monument Watrous, New Mexico
2021 Stones River National Battlefield Park Murfreesboro, Tennessee
2021 Shenandoah National Park Luray, Virginia
2019 Great Smoky Mountains National Park Gatlinburg, Tennessee
2018 Manassas National Battlefield Park Manassas, Virginia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Year Venue Quilt(s)

2021 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Bedford, PA, November, 2020 – February, 2021 7 pieces, list available
2019 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Bedford, PA 18 pieces, list available
2019 Theatre Shenandoah, Edinburg, VA 10 pieces, list available

INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

Year Venue Quilt(s)

2023 Chesterton Art Center, Chesterton, IN Don’t Fence Me In
2022 MD Anderson Ovarian Cancer Center, Houston TX, Invitation Challenge for Online Fundraising Auction Out of the Woods
2020 MD Anderson Ovarian Cancer Center, Houston TX, Invitational Challenge for Online Fundraising Auction Sunrise
2020 NIH Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD Autumn Trail
2017 HERStory: A Celebration of Strong Women, Susanne Miller Jones, Curator Flight, Amanda’s Story

JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Year Venue Quilt(s)

2023 Women of Appalachia Project, The Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens, OH, Winner, Juror’s Choice Dark Hollow Falls
2023 Biennial Exhibition, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Ligonier, PA, Winner, Best of Show Yosemite
2022 International Quilt Festival, Houston TX, Special Exhibit, Tactile Architecture Fort Union Portals
2022 International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, Special Exhibit, Landscapes Tennessee Autumn
2022 International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, Judged Show Dark Hollow Falls
2022 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton, VA Dark Hollow Falls
2021 International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, Judged Show Yosemite
2021 International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, Special Exhibit, Landscapes Water Dance: Oconaluftee
2021 Mancuso Visuals 4 Spring Quilt Festival, Winner 2nd Place, Innovative Category Water Dance: Oconaluftee
2021 Mancuso Visuals 3 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Winner 1st Place, Innovative Category Tennessee Autumn
2019 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton, VA, Winner Best Machine Workmanship Ghost Soldier 1918
2019 Sacred Threads and Sacred Threads Traveling Exhibit, Herndon, VA Ghost Soldier 1918
2019 Library of Congress, Washington, DC Fly Me to the Moon
2017 IQA International Quilt Festival, Houston TX, World of Beauty Judged Show Still Life with Bowl and Apple
2017 Sacred Threads, Herndon, VA Peaceful Reflection
2015 Sacred Threads and Sacred Threads Traveling Exhibit, Herndon, VA Descent into White Noise

COMMISSIONS, DONATIONS, PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Year Venue Quilt(s)
2022 Private Collector Hawksbill Peak
2022 Private Collector Yosemite II: Half Dome
2022 Homestead National Historical Park, donation The Homestead
2021 Fort Union National Monument, donation Fort Union Portals II
2021 Stones River National Battlefield Park, donation Ghosts of Stones River
2021 US Department of the Interior, Office of the Secretary Art Collection, donation, permanent collection Sunrise Shenandoah
2021 Shenandoah National Park, donation The Sentinel
2021 Private Collector Skyland Sunset
2020 INOVA Schar Cancer Center, Fairfax, VA, commission, permanent collection Autumn Trail 2
2020 Private Collector, commission In the Manner of the Old Masters
2019 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Bedford, PA, permanent collection Winter Creek
2018 Manassas National Battlefield Park, donation, permanent collection Witness Tree

TEACHING

Year Class Venue

2023 The Art of the Landscape, lecture and workshop, TAVA, Blacksburg, VA
2022 The Art of the Landscape, lecture and workshop, Springfield Quilters Unlimited, Springfield, VA
2022 The Art of the Landscape, lecture Schoolhouse Quilters, Cumberland, MD
2021 Sewing Water Textile Artists of Virginia, Harrisonburg, VA
2021 The Art of the Landscape Zimmerman’s Bernina, New Enterprise, PA
2021 Free Motion Quilting Zimmerman’s Bernina, New Enterprise, PA
2019 Free Motion Quilting Zimmerman’s Bernina, New Enterprise, PA
2019 Free Motion Quilting Traditions at the White Swan, Hagerstown, MD
2019 Art Journaling for young people Job Corps, Cherokee, TN
2018 The Art of the Landscape Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Bedford, PA

PUBLICATIONS
Backyard Escape, CQS Press 2020, p. 70
Sacred Threads Exhibition 2019, CQS Press 2019, p. 195
OURStory, Human Rights Stories in Fabric, Schiffer Publishing 2018, p. 13, 36-37, 182-184
Fly Me to the Moon, Schiffer Publishing 2017, p. 33, 56, 148
HERStory, A Celebration of Strong Women, Schiffer Publishing 2017
Sacred Threads Exhibition 2017, CQS Press 2017, p. 271
Sacred Threads Exhibition 2015, CQS Press 2015, p. 223