About - Resumé

Resumé

RECENT COMMISSIONS

"Undine" (36” diameter) - Barbara Bednarz Hunter

"Spiralling Too" (54” x 44”) - Jeffrey Fisher

"Moose in Autumn" (58” x 42”) - A. Robert Baker

"Under the Sea" (42” x 53”) - Baker, O'Sullivan & Bliss, P.C.

"Summer by the Lake" (48” x 32”) - Nicolette Banbury, MA, LPC

"Houston On My Mind" (41” x 28”) - Mark & Loren Shaiken

"Spiralling Blues" (54” x 44”) - Ellen Boshkoff

POSITIONS

• Studio Art Quilt Associates Executive Director (2004 - present)
• Studio Art Quilt Associates representative for Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware (2002-2005)
• Teaching Artist for the Connecticut Commission on the Arts (2003-present)
• Artist-in-residence for Mansfield Middle School, Mansfield CT (2004-2005); Wolcott School, West Hartford CT (2004);
• Annie Vinton School, Storrs CT (2003-2004); Goodwin Elementary School, Storrs CT (2002-2003)
• Curator, “Fiber Revolution: Quilts As Art” - numerous exhibits (2003-present)
• Member, Connecticut Women Artists (2004-present)
• Surface Design Associates representative for Connecticut (2003-2004)
  

RECENT SHOWS

• “55th Art of the Northeast”, Silvermine Guild Art Center, New Canaan, CT 2004
• First Place Winner – Fiber “Images of Susquehanna County”, Edward L. Rose Conservancy, Melrose, PA 2004
• “Fiber Revolution”, Brodsky Gallery, ETS corporate campus, Princeton, NJ 2003
• “Fiber Revolution”, Ellen Traut Collection gallery, Hartford, CT 2003
• “Fiber Revolution: Quilts As Art”, CHIP Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 2003, 2004
• “Fiber Revolution”, Windham Arts Center, Willimantic, CT 2003
• “Fiber Revolution”, Yale Physicians Building, New Haven, CT 2003
• “Breaking Tradition: The Fiber Revolution”, Chen Gallery, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT 2003
• “911: Las Artistas Reaccionan”, US Embassy, San Jose, Costa Rica, January, 2003 and Centro Cultural Costarricensa Norteamericano, Costa Rica, 2003
• “Glory Be!”, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, OH, 2002, 2003
• “A Page from My Book: Journal Quilts 2002”, IQF, Houston, TX 2002; Chicago, IL 2003; Portland, OR 2003

MEDIA COVERAGE

• The Chronicle (January 19, 2004) “Young quilters doing OK, sew far”
• The Crafts Report (November 2003) “Insight: Focus on Selling Fiber”
• New England Crafts Connoisseur (Fall 2003) “Quilting in new directions” profile
• Art Calendar (July/August, 2003) cover photo
• Studio Art Quilt Associates Newsletter (Summer 2003)Meet the Professional Artist Member Martha Sielman: Artist in Residence”
• The Hartford Courant (April 10, 2003) “The Fine Art of Quilting”
• The Chronicle (February 8, 2003) Album: “Busy Quilting Bees at Goodwin”
• The Professional Quilter (Fall, 2002) cover photo
• The Hartford Courant (July 26, 2002) “Inspiration for Quilters is All Around”
• The Chronicle (July 25, 2002) “The Mansfield Quilt Lady Takes Charge”
• National Quilting Association Journal (Summer 2002) “Batt to Front”
• American Craft (June/July, 2002) “Commissions”
• The Crafts Report (July 2001) “Insight: Marketing Quilts” & Table of Contents photo
• The Chronicle “The Quilter Bee”

PUBLICATIONS

• “Fiber Revolution: How To Use Your Computer To Grow Your Own Exhibition Opportunities” accepted for publication in The Crafts Report (August, 2004)
• “Artists Sell on eBay” The Crafts Report (September, 2003)
• “Learn Realistic Appliqué Techniques from a Master”: Carolyn Lee Vehslage The Quilting Quarterly, Journal of the National Quilting Association (Winter 2003); Web of Thread.com online magazine (March, 2003)
• “Art Quilts on EBAY” Studio Art Quilt Associates (Volume 13, Number 1)

EDUCATION

M.S. Education, Bank Street College of Education (May, 1985)

B.A. History, Swarthmore College (May, 1982)

“55th Art of the Northeast", Silvermine Guild Art Center, New Canaan, CT 2004

“First Place Winner – Fiber "Images of Susquehanna County", Edward L. Rose Conservancy, Melrose, PA 2004