exhibitions & honors
Exhibitions
2016
Craft2 Wear, Smithsonian Women's Committee. October 6-8, 2016. Washington DC.
2015
International Textile Art-Scythia exhibition, Kherson, Ukraine. June 2015
2014
Hats-Sculptural Form/Artistic Function (Works From The Millinery Artisan Guild), Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue WA, December 6, 2013 - February 2, 2014
2009
Soft Forms, art by Pratt Fine Arts Center Instructors, Pratt Gallery Tashiro Kaplan Building, Seattle, USA, March 5 - March 27, 2009
Crowning Glory, Touring Exhibition of the International Feltmakers' Association, at Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Scotland until March 28, 2009
2008
Launch of Luz Felt Couture fashion label with K.D. Schill; February 22, 2008;
Crowning Glory; the Architecture of the Hat, International Feltmakers’ Association November 3 - February 3, 2008, Stockport, England, March 22 - May 20, 2008, Keukenhof, Netherlands
International Felt Summer Exhibitions, Jämsä, Finland (Felt Delivers, June 29 – July 27, 2008, Jovkivarski; On the Felt Journey, July 13 – August 17, Kivipankki Art Gallery)
11 October – 10 December, 2008, Museu da Chaperleria, S. Joao da Madeira, Portugal
2007
Wear Art Now, Fuller Craft Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; October 22, 2006 - January 7, 2007; “From the Ground Up”, Dottie Harper Park, Burien, WA, USA; June 23 & 24, 2007
2006
Heads, Necks & Fingers, Orcas Center, Orcas Island, WA, USA from September 8, 2006 Material Culture, Salt Lake Center, Salt Lake City, Utah; June 23 – Sept 30, 2006
Northwest Designer Craftsmen at 50, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA; December 2005 - January 2006
2005
Smithsonian Craft Show, Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC
Santa Fe Weaving Studio, Santa Fe, N.M.; Dec 1 – 31
Northwest Designer Craftsmen at 50, Portland Contemporary Crafts Museum, Portland, OR; from September – October
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA; October – January 2006
Crafts at the Castle, Boston, MA; Dec 1-4
2004
Hair Gulassa & Company, Seattle WA
Bumberbiennale Consumable show, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA.
Looking Forward, Looking Back: NWDC at 50, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
2003
Fashion is...” Thread for Art Exhibit, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle WA
Nature of Craft, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
Smithsonian Craft Show, Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC
2002
Smithsonian Craft Show, Smithsonian Museum, Washington,DC,
Crater Lake Centennial Exhibition, Ashland, OR
Extending the Body, Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, CO
2001
Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
Out on A Limb, The Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, Ohio
Linda Farris Look, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
Familiar, Secluded Alley Works, Seattle, WA
Kung Fu Fabulon, Re-Bar, Seattle, WA
The New Tiara, M.C. Ginzberg Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
2000
Fiber 2000, American Crafts Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
The Body Adorned, Peters Valley, Layton, NJ
The Well-Crafted Home, Penland Gallery, Penland, NC; Edwin T. Pratt Memorial, Bon Marché, Seattle, WA
1999
Sculptural Hats, XOXOXO Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Settlers, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
Skin, solo installation, Madrona Automatic Gallery, Seattle, WA
Like Cats and Dogs, Pratt Fine Arts Center Gallery, Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA (collaboration with Ross Whitehead)
1998
Shoes as Muse, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Muse of the Millennium, nationally juried show of contemporary fiber arts, Nordic Museum, Seattle, WA
1997
Fresh Clothes millinery fashion show (participant and curator), Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA
Feast of Hats (showcase of hats inspired by food), Seattle, WA
1995 – 1997
Arena Fashion Show, Seattle, WA
honors & awards
2016
Wingate Foundation funded
2011, 2013, 2015
Open studios residency, Haystack school of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine. 2010, 2013, 2015. Funded by the Wingate family foundation.
2011
GAP Grant
2010
Jyväskylä Institute, Jämsä, Finland, residency and workshop
2005-2006
Artist Trust and Washington State Commission for the Arts Fellowship, Washington
2002
NEA-Warhol Foundation Visiting Artist, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
2001
Centrum Artist-in-Residence, Port Townsend, WA
Artist-in-Residence, Seattle Arts Commission Arts-Up Program, Seattle, WA
Artist-in-Residence, Crater Lake National Park, Crater Lake, OR
1999
Recipient, George Tsutakawa Scholarship in sculpture Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
1999 -1998
Recipient, Wright-Runstad Sculpture Scholarship, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
1997-1998
Artist-in-Residence, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA