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CV

awards
​2019
Award of Excellence: Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild Second Annual Share Our Walls

2018
Arts Fellow: University of Arizona Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill
Award of Merit: Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild First Annual Share Our Walls

2014
Artist in Residence: Zion National Park
 
2012
Arizona Centennial Artist in Park: Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Lees Ferry
 
2010
Artist in Residence: Grand Canyon National Park, North Rim
 
2009
People’s Choice Award: Fiber Celebrated 2009 Intermountain Weavers Conference
 
2008 
Juror’s Recognition Award for Tapestry: Fibers Through Time 2008 AZ Federation of Weavers and Spinners
 
public collections
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, AZ
Zion National Park, UT
Peregrine Fund World Center for Birds of Prey, ID

affiliations
American Craft Council
https://craftcouncil.org/

American Tapestry Alliance
       2011 – 2013: online education webpage editor
       2007 – 2018: newsletter committee (online digest editor; theme facilitator)
https://americantapestryalliance.org/

PaperWorks: The Sonoran Collective for Paper and Book Artists 
https://paperworks.info/index.html

Surface Design Association
https://www.surfacedesign.org/
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Tapestry Weavers West

https://www.tapestryweaverswest.org/
  
education
2020
Artist Books
Pima Community College, Tucson AZ

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2019
Design Outside the Lines Tapestry & Stitching - Lynne Curran & Diane Ericson
Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Taos NM

Pushing Tapestry: Exploring the Eccentric Wedge Weave – Deborah Corsini
Intermountain Weavers Conference, Durango CO

2018
Papermaking
Baribeau Studio - Helen Baribeau
Catalina, AZ
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Wax, Paper, Scissors
Sedona Arts Center - Crystal Neubauer
Sedona, AZ

Personal Expression: A Design Approach
Art Unraveled - Donna Watson
Phoenix, AZ

The Art of Expressive Freedom in Mixed Media & Collage
Way Art Yonder Studio - Crystal Neubauer
San Diego, CA


Cold Wax & Oil Surfaces
Tubac Center of the Arts - Greta Ward
Tubac, AZ


2017
Zen Layers; Wabi Sabi: The Spirit of Collage
Art Unraveled - DonnaWatson
Phoenix, AZ

Art & Science: Ways of Knowing the Sonoran Desert
Methods in Art-Based Perceptual Ecology 
- Dr. Lee Ann Woolery
Ajo, AZ

2016
Mark Making with Tea & Rust
PaperWorks - Daniella Woolf
Tucson, AZ

Where Solid Meets Void
Colour & Design Workshop for Tapestry - Joan Baxter
Tucson, AZ

Tapestry on Tap - Aino Kajaniemi
American Tapestry Alliance Retreat
Milwaukee, WI 

2015 - 2017
Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum Art Institute
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2014
Creative Capital – Marcel Marois
American Tapestry Alliance Retreat
Providence, RI
 
2013
Traces, Layers, Narratives, & Surfaces – Shelley Socolofsky
American Tapestry Alliance Retreat
Tacoma, WA
 
2010
Loomish Eyes (9 month study & mentorship) – Silvia Heyden
 
2009
Tapestry: Art Form Of Its Own – Silvia Heyden
Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino CA

Color and Tapestry – Kathe Todd-Hooker
Intermountain Weavers Conference, Durango CO
 
2008
Helena Hernmarck Tapestry Technique – Diane Wolf
Arizona Federation of Weavers & Spinners
Fibers Through Time 2008, Tucson, AZ
 
2007
Color and Design for Contemporary Tapestry – James Koehler
Desert Weaving Workshop, Tucson AZ

Sources of Inspiration in Tapestry – D.Y. Begay, Barbara Heller, Madeleine Darling-Tung
Desert Weaving Workshop, Tucson AZ
 
2006
Tapestry Loom Construction – Jane Hoffman
Tapestry Weaving Techniques – Jane Hoffman
Blue River Studio, Alpine AZ

Natural Dyeing – Jane Hoffman
Desert Weaving Workshop, Tucson AZ

Coptic Tapestry Weaving Techniques – Nancy Arthur Hoskins
Desert Weaving Workshop, Tucson AZ

​2005
Tapestry 1 – Ann Keuper
Tapestry 2 – Ann Keuper
Desert Weaving Workshop, Tucson AZ

Sprang Weaving – Glenna Dean
Warp Weighted Loom Construction & Weaving – Glenna Dean
Colcha Embroidery – Veronica Coale
Mountain and Valley Wool Association Wool Festival, Taos NM

Natural Dyeing – Jane Hoffman
Intermountain Weavers Conference, Durango CO

4 Shaft Floor Loom Weaving – Carol Leigh Brack-Kaiser
Hillcreek Fiber Studio, Columbia MO
 
2001
Arizona Institute of Interior Design
Tucson AZ

University of Arizona
Tucson AZ
 
1997
A.A.
Okaloosa-Walton College, Niceville FL
 
1995
A.S. Nursing
Pensacola Junior College, Pensacola FL
 
1994
Beginning, Intermediate, & Advanced Reed Basketry
Woven in Time, Valparaiso FL
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  • home
  • about
  • woven work
  • collage
  • early work
  • artist-in-residence
    • zion national park 2014
    • glen canyon national recreation area 2012
    • grand canyon national park north rim 2010
  • exhibits
  • cv
  • journal
  • contact