
In 2006 I juried and curated Surface Tension, an exhibition of art quilts, which has its own archival page in this site. The photo above, by Arle Sklar-Weinstein, was taken at the Surface Tension opening. Pictured is my juror's quilt, Penumbra #1: Summer Dance (2006), the first in a new series of cyanotypes printed on organza, layered over cotton saturated with poured paint. The red flannel backing can be seen through slashes in the cotton; this quilt is tied and embellished in embroidery floss with French knots.
Currently I am the managing curator for MetroTexural: Art Quilts from the Manhattan Quilters Guild. This exhibition of twenty-one quilts will travel through 2009. See the Quiltart web site for images of these quilts: <www.quiltart.com/metro>.
Along with co-juror Maxine Farkas, I juried Quilt 21: American Art Quilts for the 21st Century in 2000. Forty-two pieces were chosen, by forty-three artists from twenty-one states. This exhibition traveled for two years, 2001-2002. Copies of this full-color catalogue may still be available. Please contact me for information.
Among the online exhibitions juried by me is the Nevada Art Quilt Competition, featured on the Quiltart web site in 2000.
My first foray into jurying and curating an art quilt exhibition was the original Fine Focus national competition in 1998. These fifty small-format works toured the country until 2001. Each piece was sewn onto canvas mounted on 18-in.-square stretchers. The images from this exhibition have been archived online at www.quiltart.com/ff/. (Forty percent of the quilts were sold during the tour.)
In 1998 I curated an exhibition of photography for The Urban Center (NYC) entitled Walking the Waterway: Scenes along the Old Croton Aqueduct Trailway.
From 1986 until 1994, I was a curator at The Hispanic Society of America (NYC), where I organized several major exhibitions of materials from special collections.
