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G r a n t s/A w a r d s
2007 Massachusetts Cultural Council
Finalist, Crafts
2004 SAC (Society of Arts and Crafts)
New England Artist Award
2003 Cushman Family Fund, Faculty
Enrichment Grant to visit historic paper mills in
France
2003 Massachusetts Cultural Council
Winner Crafts
2001 Massachusetts Cultural Council
Finalist Crafts
2000 Massachusetts Cultural Council
Finalist Works on Paper
1999 Massachusetts Cultural Council
Finalist Crafts
1999 Cushman Family Fund, Faculty
Enrichment Grant to visit
papermaking villages in Japan
1997 Massachusetts Cultural Council
Grant artist in residence at
McCarthy-Towne school, Acton, MA
1992 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
Faculty Enrichment Grant to study fossils in the Southwest US
1988 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
Faculty Enrichment Grant to research the Stave
Churches of Norway
1983 Boston/Strasbourg Sister City
Grant
S e l e c t e d E x h i b i t i o n s
2008 Networking the Void, 2-person
exhibition/installation, Meditech, Canton, MA
2008 Society of Arts and
Crafts New England Artists Award Winners Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2007 20th Drawing Show, Mills Gallery,
Boston MA juried by Magda Campos-Pons
2007 Material Drawing, GASP, Brookline, MA
2007 Primarily Paper: An International Invitational, Pyramid
Atlantic Art Center, MD
2006 Craftforms Wayne Art
Center, Wayne, PA A national juried
exhibition of contemporary craft
2006 Friends of Dard Hunter Canal Warehouse, Chillicothe, OH
2006 New Art ’06 Kingston Gallery Boston, MA, curated by Susan Greenberg, Yale University
Art Gallery
2005 The Boston Printmakers 2005
Print Biennial, Boston University 808 Gallery,
A National juried
exhibition of contemporary prints
2005 8th National
Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, curated by Joseph Thomas, Director, Mass
MOCA
2005 Translucence: Forms in Paper, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT A national exhibition
featuring artists who push the boundaries of paper
2004 SAC Artist Awards, Society of Arts and
Crafts, Boston,
MA ”to encourage and support New England artists
who show a mastery of their craft media & create
original and innovative work”.
2004 Friends of Dard Hunter Juried Exhibition, San Antonio Public Library, San Antonio, TX
2004 Metamorphosis, National invitational exhibition, Kohler Art
Center, Sheboygan, WI
2003 New England Fiber Artists Concord Art Association, Concord, MA, featured artist
2003 The Art of Drawing Concord
Art Association, Concord, MA
2002 New Art ’02 Kingston Gallery Boston, MA, “Best in Show” curated by Lelia Amalfitano
2002-to present The Drawing Project Bernard Toale Gallery Boston,
MA
2001 Mass. Cultural Council Grant Recipients & Finalists Society of
Arts and Crafts, Worcester Center for Crafts, The Berkshire Art Museum
2000 International Women’s Art SOHO20 Gallery NY, NY, curated by Charlotta Kotik, Brooklyn Museum of Art
2000 New Art Y2K Kingston Gallery Boston, MA, curated by
Susan Stoops, Worcester Art Museum
1999 Decordova Annual: 11 New England Artists Decordova Museum Lincoln, MA
Additional Selected Exhibitions:
Surface: New Form/New
Function Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts;
Dix Artistes Americains La Laiterie Strasbourg, France;
Women and Paper, Clark University, Worcester, MA;
Nancy Graves Chooses Works on
Paper, Artspace, CT;
Handmade Paper, Liberty Gallery Louisville, KY;
Handmade Paper Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA;
Triennial, Fuller Art Museum Brockton MA;
Art For Your Collection, RISD
Museum of Art, RI;
Art As Architecture Thomas
Segal Gallery, Boston, MA;
Making Paper, American Craft Museum, NYC, NY;
Out of The Woods, Rose
Art Museum, Brandeis U., Waltham, MA;
One Person Show Museum of Modern Art, Strasbourg, France;
The Decordova:Six Decades, Decordova Museum Lincoln, MA
C o l l e c t i o n
s
Decordova Museum
International
Paper Company
Prudential
Insurance Company
Vesti Corporation
Bank of
New England
Fidelity
Management Company
C o m m i s s i o n s
Installation,
The Mill, Tingsboro, MA.
International
Paper Company Headquarters, NY.
Bank of
New England New Bedford, MA
Private
Site-Specific Sculpture Ipswich MA
S e l e c t e d P u b l i c a t i o n s / R e v i e w
s
Boston
Globe November
28, 2003 “The visceral power of textures is the fiber of their work” by Cate McQuaid
The
Concord Journal October 23, 2003 “Fiber Art exhibit opens at Art Association”
Fiberarts Magazine September/October 2002,Vol. 29, No.2 Cover, Featured Artist
“The
Largest Reaches of Life” by Micah Pulleyn
Middlesex
Beat May 2002, Cover, Featured Artist “Pulp
Fiction” by Beth Surdut
The
Boston Globe,
July 12, 2002 “Group show at Kingston has range, substance” by Cate McQuaid
The
Boston Sunday Globe, October 20, 2002, "The ProcessThis
isn’t pulp fiction": Her art shapes
paper made from scratch” by Louise
Kennedy
The
Boston Herald,
January 19, 2001 “Grace is in the details at craft exhibit” by Joanne Silver
Hand Papermaking Magazine Summer 2001 Vol. 16 No. 1 Anniversary Issue, Selected Artist
The
Beacon July 26
2001, “Papermaking as an art form leads to grant for local artist” by Michael Wyner
Hand
Papermaking Magazine Summer 2000, Cover, Featured
Artist “Wondering Outloud” by Michelle Samour
The Decordova Annual 1999 Catalogue, Nick Capasso
The
Boston Globe 1999 “Art in cycles At the DeCordova Annual, 12 artists record where
they are now” by Christine Temin
E d u c a t i o n
Diploma,
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
BFA
Tufts University, Medford MA
Associate
Degree, Colby/Sawyer College, New London, NH
Fine
Arts Studies, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
V i s i t i n g A r t i s t . G a l l e r y T a l k s
University
of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Pyramid
Atlantic, Maryland
Kohler
Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
The
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
The
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The
Museum of Modern Art, Strasbourg, France
T e a c h i n g . A d m i n i s t r a t i v e
Associate Faculty The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA Paper
Director of the Art Department Creative Arts At Park School, Brookline,
MA
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