the SOCIETY OF LAYERISTS in MULTI-MEDIA

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EDUCATION

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, MFA in Sculpture, 1962
Hunter College, New York City, NY, BA in Art and Art Education, 1960
College of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, NT, 1956-1958
Crafts Student League, New York City, NY
Haystack School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Workshop in Tapestry with Gayle Wimmer
MAC Workshops with Walter Nottinghham, Ed Rossbach

 

SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Woman of the Year 1996 Nomination, American Biographical Institute
Scholar–In–Residence at the Hambridge Art Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia 
Recipient: One year Artist–In–Residence grant, Roswell Museum and Art Center, NM, 1972
Twenty minute videotape on the artists produced by Jim Sheldon, grant to the Haverhill Public Library,
Haverhill, MA
Panelist: Visual Arts, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, Spring 1981
Finalist: Fiber category, Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Grants, 1981

 

SELECTED ART EXHIBITIONS

2004
"Healing Environments", SLMM Exhibit, Blue Moon Gallery, Hot Springs, AR, Spring 2004

 

2003
"Reclamations", Two Person Show, McQuade Library Gallery, Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA
"Abstractions", Ferncroft Hotel Complex, Danvers, MA, Fall 2003
"Fire in the Heart", SLMM Exhibit, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR, Summer 2003

 

2002
"Bridges" Virtual MathArt Exhibit, electronic presentation, Summer 2002

 

2001
"Selected Work", SLMM Exhibit, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Summer 2001
"Bridges" Virtual MathArt Exhibit, electronic presentation, Summer 2002
"Tides of Change", SLMM Exhibit, Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, Tx, 2001

 

2000

"Alchemy", SLMM Exhibit, Nabisco Headquarters, NJ, The Garde Art Center, CN, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun.NJs; "Birth of Wisdom, SLMM Exhibit, St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM; "Visions Toward Wellness", Travelling exhibit, with Health/Art Conference, Providence, RI

 

1999

"Bridging Time & Space, the Power of Image and Word" SLMM Exhibit, Dominican College, 
San Rafael, CA

 

1998

"Celtic Connections", SLMM Exhibit, Laura Knott Gallery, Bradford College, Bradford, MA
"Arts Around Boston", 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Bradford College, Bradford, MA

 

1997

"Guardian Spirits", SLMM, in the redundant church of St. Paul and St Peter, Marlborough, England; "Women Creating/Fiber Arts", Higgins Art Gallery, Barnstable, MA; "Arts North", juried exhibit, Whistler House Museum, Lowell, MA

 

1996

"Mining the Unconscious", Western New Mexico University, Silver City, NM; "Tree of Life", SLMM Exhibit, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; "Crossings" SLMM Exhibit, Old Saybrook, CT

 

1995

"Crossings" SLMM Exhibit, Greeley, CO; "Crossings" SLMM Exhibit, St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM; "Partners" Exhibit, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA; "Symmetry/Asymmetry" University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA; "New Dimensions of Fiber", NAC Gallery, Newtons Arts Center, Newton, MA

 

1994

"Crossings" SLMM Exhibit, Laura Knott Art Gallery, Bradford College, Bradford,MA; University of Arkansas Art Gallery, Fayetteville, AR: "The Layered Perspective" in conjunction with the "Artists of the Spirit" Exhibit, Walton Art Center, Fayetteville, AR; The Essex Art Center, Inaugural Exhibition

 

1993

Nesto Art Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA; The Bentley Gallery, Art Faculty Exhibit, Northern Essex Community College

 

1992

"Mixed Media in Four Dimensions", The Firehouse Center, Newburyport, MA; "The Universal Link" and "Art is Healing", SLMM, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX; "Aesthetics 92", McPherson College, McPherson, KS; "Art on Paper 1992", Maryland Federation of Art Gallery, Annapolis, MD; "unifying Principles", Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA; "Art and Mathematics Connections", Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH summer

 

1991

Regional Fiber Show, Sharon Art Center, Sharon, NH; "A Couple of Artists", Higgins Art Gallery, Rochelle and Richard Newman, Cape Cod Community College; "Art and Mathematics Connections", Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH summer

 

1990

"Art and Mathematics Connections", Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH summer

 

1989

"Art and Mathematics Connections", Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH summer

 

1987

"Crossovers", Boston Seven Exhibit, Laura Knott Gallery, Bradford College, Bradford, MA

 

1985

"New England Fiber Arts", Invitational Show, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI

 

1984

"Contemporary Tapestry", Gallery Graphics I & II, Boston, MA; "Couples" Mixed Media, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA

 

PUBLICATIONS

MALLEABLE MATTER/STRETCHABLE SPACE, February 2000
SPACE, STRUCTURE AND FORM, publication January 1996, collaborative work with Donna Fowler
1992 THE SURFACE PLANE, reprint 1996, collaborative work with Martha Boles
1985 UNIVERSAL PATTERNS, Second Edition, 1988. Revised Edition 1990
ALGEBRA, A PROCESS APPROACH, 1991, collaborative artwork/text project with Martha Boles, cover, chapter images and text (jointly executed artworks and eight solo artworks)
ART, MATH AND NATURE IN THE INTERDISCIPLINARY CLASSROOM, "LEONARDO, Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology" Volume 21, No. 2, 1988 co-authored with Martha Boles

 

PUBLICATIONS IN BOOKS, CATAGLOGS, AND MAGAZINES

THE ART OF LAYERING: MAKING CONNECTIONS, 2004
VISIONS, catalog for show "Visions Towards Wellness", Spring 2000
ART AND HEALING, Barbara Ganim, 1999
ARTS AROUND BOSTON, magazine, articles: "Capturing Light and Shadow", Winter Issue 1998/1999; 
"Geometry as a Design Tool", Winter Issue 1997/1998 
BRIDGING TIME & SPACE, ESSAYS ON LAYERED ART, 1998
Houghton–Mifflin publication on geometry, artwork used, 1998
Surface Design Journal, Review of work by Erica Licea–Kane, Winter 1995
CREATIVE COLLAGE, by Virginia Lee Williams and Nita Leland, Summer 1994
NCTM (National Council of the Teachers of Mathematics magazine) Covers 1994–6, 1998, 2001, 2002
RELEASING THE CREATIVE SPIRIT, by Marilyn Hughey Phillis, Fall 1992
SPIRAL SYMMETRY, by Clifford Pickover (images and essay by artist), Spring 1992
LAYERING, AN ART OF TIME AND SPACE, collaborative book by members of SLMM, 1991
INFORMAL GEOMETRY, textbook, Spring 1991
AMERICAN ARTIST magazine, Spring 1991
NCTM (National Council of the Teachers of Mathematics mag.) The Covers series for the entire year 1989
NEW ENGLAND HANDCRAFT CATALOG, 1983 
FIBERARTS DESIGN BOOK, Fall 1980

 

TEACHING POSITIONS

Professor Emerita, Creative Arts Department, Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA 1967–1995
Senior Lecturer, Creative Arts Department, Bradford College, Bradford, MA
Adjunct Faculty (Currently), Merrimack College, MA; Subjects: Introduction to both 2D and 3D Design