SELECTED TEACHING AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

2008 Chair and organizer of session: "The Evolution of Contemporary Quilt Art," College Art Association Annual Conference; also presenting lecture on "Some Political Aspects of Quilt Art: 1960-1980."
2008 Teaching: History of Graphic Design, Adelphi University
2007 Lecture "Approaches to Critiquing Quilt Art," Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) national conference (Athens, OH); also did critique workshops
2007 Organized and chaired panel discussion "Art Quilt Workshops: What's Art Got To Do With It?" international symposium, International Quilt Study Center (Lincoln, NE)
2007 Teaching: Prehistoric to Gothic Art: Pratt Institute (Manhattan)
2007 Teaching: Modern Art II, 1945-2006: Adelphi University
2007 Teaching: Venetian Art and Architecture, 1400-1600: Cooper Union
2007 Teaching: Prehistoric to Gothic Art: Fashion Institute of Technology
2006 Workshop "Eye of the Artist: Approaches to Critiquing Quilt Art," SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) NY meeting
2006 Lecture "Quilt Art and America during the 1960s and 1970s," San Jose Museum of Quilts andTextiles (San Jose, California)
2006 Teaching: Medieval Art: Fashion Institute of Technology
2005-2006 Teaching: Prehistoric to Gothic Art: Kean University
2004 Teaching: Contemporary Visual Culture: City College of New York (CUNY, graduate course)
2004 Teaching: Survey of World Art in the West: Fordham University
2003 Lecture “Folk Art Aesthetics and American Art Quilts,” Wild by Design symposium, International
2000 Chaired symposium “Art Quilts of the Future”: National Museum of Women in the Arts
1999 Teaching: Fabric painting, stamp printing, and introduction to art quilts: NYQuilts! (Troy, NY))
1998 Lecture and photo transfer workshops: Houston International Quilt Festival
1996 Teaching: Cyanotype photography on fabric: Peters Valley Craft Center (Layton, NJ)
1995 Teaching: Art quilt materials and techniques: Katonah Museum (Katonah, NY)
1992 Teaching: Renaissance art history: Sarah Lawrence College (taught with Suzanne Boorsch)

ART FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS

2007 Named an Associate Fellow of the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln
2007 Elected to the Board of SAQA
2007 Invited by the jury to exhibit in the 2007 Biennale of Contemporary Art (Florence, Italy)
1995 Empire State Crafts Alliance, for Bronx student workshop
1994 Bronx Council on the Arts BRIO grant for artistic excellence

SELECTED INSTALLATIONS, COLLECTIONS, & COMMISSIONS

2007 International Quilt Study Center, Lincoln, Nebraska ("Stir Crazy," cyanotype painted quilt)
2007 World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, "Count Them All" (mixed media quilt) in September 11 Quilts collection
2004 Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum permanent collection ("Infrastructure," mixed media photo quilt)
2001 Bronx Reservoir Keeper’s House, historic landmark ("Waterway," cyanotype painted quilt)
1999 Virginia Quilt Museum permanent collection ("The Sower," cyanotype photogram quilt)
1999 “Mountain Sunset” painted photo quilt: private commission (North Carolina)
1999 “For Lily, with Love” cyanotype photo quilt: private commission (New York City)
1998 Atlanta Airport Art Program, International Concourse E ("Water Wheels," cyanotype photogram quilt)
1997 San José Museum of Quilts and Textiles permanent collection ("Rites of Passage," photo quilt)
1997 “River of Hope” seven silk-painted banners for Montefiore Hospital (New York City)
1996 Peters Valley Craft Center permanent collection ("A Valentine for Fordham Road," cyanotype print quilt)
1996-2001 "Florida Palm Trees" wall hanging, 10 x 14 ft., painted on cotton twill: Florida Atlantic
1995 Photo quilt from artist's collection, commission for three others: Montefiore Hospital
1996 "Gateway to Summer 1995" window banners (total of four), cyanotype photograms

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Friends of Fiber Art International; Studio Art Quilt Associates; Art Quilt Network/New York; Manhattan Quilters Guild; Textile Study Group of New York; Surface Design Association; American Craft Council; Alliance for American Quilts; College Art Association

SELECTED PUBLISHED WORKS (all on fabric and in color unless noted otherwise)

2008  "Silent Soldiers" cyanotype quilt in SAQA catalogue of Transformations 2008: Icons and Imagery, pp. 50-51
2007 Three invitational Sense of Place cyanotype quilts (Penumbra series) in SAQA catalogue, pp.
2006 "Boogie-down Kitchen" cyanotype quilt in SAQA catalogue (CD) of Transformations 2006
2006 "New York Colors" mixed-media quilt: Art Quilts: Manhattan Quilters Guild, p. 7.
2006 "Going Home" cyanotype quilt: Surface Design Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, 10.
2004 "News Flash" mixed-media quilt: American Style magazine, June 2004, 74.
2004 “Stir Crazy” cyanotype quilt: Centre Daily Times, Mar. 12 (central Pennsylvania), exhibition review
2002 “Boogie-down Kitchen” cyanotype quilt: Fiberarts Magazine, Sep/Oct, 27
2002 “Stir Crazy” cyanotype quilt and “Dust to Dust”mixed-media quilt: Fabric Stamping Handbook, 52,
2000 “Red River” mixed-media quilt: American Art Quilts, Quilt 21 / 2000 exhibition catalogue
2000 “Silver Anniversary” photo quilt: Riverdale Press, Jan. 20 (feature article on Sider)
1999 “Women at Work and Play, no. 4” photo quilt: Women in the Arts, Dec. Holiday issue
1999 “The Sower” cyanotype quilt: Women in the Arts, Dec. Holiday issue
1999 “Women at Work and Play, no. 6,” “Women at Work and Play, no. 8,” “Rites of Passage,”
1998 “Reservoir Rocks” and “Fort Independence Park”, black-and-white photos in Lehman College
1997 "The Sower” cyanotype quilt, in black and white: Wave Hill News, Fall issue
1997 “Women at Work and Play, no. 5” and Women at Work and Play, no. 7” photo quilts:
1998 Color images of Jerome Park Reservoir in video: A City Lake, Lynn Pyle
1997 “New Moon Over Mexico” cyanotype quilt: The Art Quilt, p. 153, Robert Shaw
1997 “Paradise #1” color photograph: Apogee Photo Magazine, Dec. ‘97 (Internet contest)
1996 "Spring Morning" color photograph: Apogee Photo Magazine, July '96 (Internet contest)
1996 "Women at Work and Play, no. 4" photo quilt: Fiberarts Magazine, Jan/Feb, p. 18
1995 "Women at Work and Play, no. 2" photo quilt: Diversity! exhibition catalogue
1995 "Women at Work and Play, no. 1" photo quilt: Fiberarts Design Book Five, p. 40
1994 "Focus on the Belvedere" cyanotype quilt: The Art of Seeing, p. 356 (textbook)
1993 "Chapultepec Flash" and "Eyes of Egypt" cyanotype quilts, in black and white: The New York Times, Sept. 12, p. 25 (Westchester section), review by Patricia Malarcher
1992 "Power Mowers" photo quilt: Surface Design Journal, v. 16, no. 3, 26
1991 "Eyes of Egypt" cyanotype quilt: Fiberarts Design Book Four, 196
1991 "Focus on the Belvedere" cyanotype quilt: Fiberarts Magazine, Summer, 12
1990 "Oaxaca Dancer" color photograph: Best of Photography Annual, 90

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008 "Penumbra #2: Silent Soldiers," cyanotype quilt, SAQA Transformations 2008: Icons and Images (juried, touring)
2008 "Red River" and "Magenta Filter," mixed media quilts, National Art Quilt Show (invitational), Hill Country Arts Foundation (Ingram, TX)
2007 Three of the quilts in my new cyanotype series Penumbra exhibited in SAQA's show Sense of Place: Artists Working in Series (curated by Peg Keeney), Houston International Festival of Quilts (Houston, touring)
2007 "Heat Wave," mixed media quilt, Fiber Force: A Futuristic Approach (curated by Lisa Chipetine), Pacific International Quilt Festival XVI (Santa Clara, California)
2007 "Penumbra #1: Summer Dance," cyanotype quilt, Fabric of the Imagination (juried), Visions Art Quilt Gallery, San Diego
2007 “Going, Going, Gone” cyanotype quilt, New Art from an American Tradition (SAQA juried exhibition at Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton, VA, as part of the Jamestown 400th Anniversary); also exhibited at Colonial Williamsburg
2007 Solo show: Photography and Quilt Art, Denver National Quilt Festival
2006-2009 "New York Colors" mixed-media quilt, national tour of MetroTextural (group show from the Manhattan Quilters Guild)
2006 “Going, Going, Gone” cyanotype quilt, Material Speaks (group show from Art Quilt Network / New
2006 “Boogie-down Kitchen” cyanotype quilt, Transformations: Artists Working with Fiber
2005 "Going Home" cyanotype quilt, Quilts=Art=Quilts (juried), Schweinfurth Art Center
2005 "Kitty Well, Kitty Wells," mixed media monoprint quilt, touring trunk show by members of
2005 "Night Driving #4" and "Going, Going, Gone" mixed media cyanotype quilts, summer show of quilts
2005 "Going Home" and "Stir Crazy" cyanotype quilts, summer show (invitational), Earlville Opera House
2004 "Teaching Those Boots to Sing" printed and sequined quilt, in Music tour (invitational)
2004 “Stir Crazy” cyanotype quilt, in Quilts: Traditional and the Deviant (invitational), HUB Gallery at
2003 “Nightshade #3” mixed media cyanotype quilt, in Dreaming the Garden tour (invitational)
2003 “Count Them All” mixed media quilt, in September 11 Quilts, Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College
2002 “News Flash” mixed media photo transfer quilt, in Time Squared, traveling exhibition, Manhattan
2002 “Text and Commentary” pieced quilt, in Dancing Between the Semicolons tour (invitational)
2002 “In Honor of the US Mail” embellished shoe stamped and mailed from New York City to Lowell,
2002 “Terra Firma?” mixed media photo transfer quilt, touring by invitation in Fine Focus 2002
2002 “Boogie-down Kitchen” cyanotype quilt, Pieceworks: Art Quilts at the Sedgwick (juried)
2001 “Stir Crazy” cyanotype quilt, Hanging by a Thread (juried), Northern Arizona University
2001 “Step Right Up!” photo quilt, Pieceworks: Art Quilts at the Sedgwick (juried), Philadelphia
2000 “Red River” mixed media quilt, Quilt 21 (showing as juror), traveling exhibition
2000 “Southern Wedding” mixed media quilt, Quilt Show 2000 – The World Visits (invitation), Darling
2000 “Step Right Up!” photo quilt, FOCUS: FIBER (invitation), Mill Brook Gallery (Concord, NH)
2000 “Branching Out” mixed media quilt, ARTiculate Threads (juried), Ellipse Arts Center
1999 “Silver Anniversary” photo quilt, East Meets West (juried), Boehm Gallery (San Marcos, CA)
1999 “Inside the Fence” photo quilt, Hanging by a Thread (juried), Northern Arizona University
1999 “Branching Out” mixed media quilt, Spring Fever! (invitation), (Greenwich, CT)
1998 Solo show of color photographs Jerome Park: A Neighborhood at Risk: Lehman College Library
1998 “Dust to Dust” mixed media quilt, YARDWORKS, traveling exhibition, Manhattan Quilters Guild
1998 “Women at Work and Play, no. 7” photo quilt, Fantastic Fibers (juried), Yeiser Art Center
1998 “Infrastructure” screen printed quilt, Manhattan Graphics Center invitational show
1997 “The Sower” cyanotype quilt, Strata Various, Manhattan Quilters Guild: Wave Hill (NYC)
1996 Solo show of portrait series "Women at Work and Play" photo art quilts: Longwood Arts Gallery
1995 “Women at Work and Play, no. 2” photo quilt: Diversity!: Art Quilts for the Next Century (juried):
1995 “Women at Work and Play, no. 4” photo quilt: The Art Quilt (juried), Rochester Institute of
1993 Solo show of twelve photos and nine art quilts, Sarah Lawrence College Library Gallery reviewed
1993 Featured artist in invitational fiber exhibition: The Gallery (Asheville, NC)
1992 “Making Tracks” photo quilt: Santa Cruz Art League (annual juried competition)
1991 Featured artist: Gallery Five (Tequesta, FL)

EDUCATION: Quiltmaking and embroidery as a child in western North Carolina

2004 M.A. in art history: Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
1999 Batik workshop: Quilt / Surface Design Symposium (by Els van Baarle)
1998 Polaroid transfer workshops: Manhattan Graphics Center (by H. Lisa Solon)
1997 Screen-printing class: Manhattan Graphics Center (by Margaret Nussbaum)
1995 Photography workshop (large-format camera)): Clyde Butcher, Everglades studio
1991- 93 Printmaking classes: School of Visual Arts (by Elaine Breiger and Larry Wright)
1978 Ph.D in comparative literature: UNC, Chapel Hill (focus on text and image)
1975-76 Painting and filmmaking classes: University of Kentucky, Lexington (audited)
1972 M.A. in comparative literature: UNC, Chapel Hill

PUBLISHED WRITING ON THE ARTS

Feature articles, exhibition reviews, artist interviews and profiles, and book reviews in Women in the Arts, Fiberarts Magazine, Surface Design Journal, Emblematica, Sixteenth Century Journal, and essays in several monographs and special-issue journals; scholarly exhibition catalogues, including essay on Jean Ray Laury for 2006 solo exhibition at San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles; several books concerning Renaissance studies; Internet reviews and essays, including Artcritical.com reviews of Gee’s Bend quilts at the Whitney Museum, new work by Miriam Schapiro at a NYC gallery, and Andy Warhol at DIA: Beacon; “WOMANHOUSE: Cradle of Feminist Art: January 30 - February 28, 1972,” Internet publication: Art Spaces Archives Project, http://as-ap.org/sider/resources.cfm.

MOST RECENT BOOK: Handbook to Life in Renaissance Europe (New York: Facts on File, 2005; Oxford paperback, 2007).

BOOK IN PROGRESS: Contemporary American Quilt Art: Sources and Synergy (forthcoming 2009, University of Nebraska Press)

CURATORIAL AND JURYING EXPERTISE

The Hispanic Society of America, 1985-1994, writing for exhibition catalogues and curating exhibitions (books, manuscripts, maps, photographs); Internet exhibitions (art quilts online); sole juror and curator of the original Fine Focus exhibition (fifty pieces touring nationally, 1999-2001); curator, Walking the Waterway: Scenes along the Old Croton Aqueduct Trailway, 1998 (photography), The Urban Center, New York City; co-juror for Quilt 21: American Art Quilts for the 21st Century (touring 2000-2002); juror for Nevada Art Quilt Competition 2000 (Internet exhibition); sole juror and guest curator for national art quilt competition Surface Tension, November 2006 (exhibition at Kean University, Union, New Jersey); managing curator for MetroTextural: Art Quilts from the Manhattan Quilters Guild (2006-2009); sole juror for SAQA international competition Transformations 2007; sole juror for California Fibers (2007)