AWARDS

• 2010 Materials Hard & Soft, Juror's Award, Greater Denton Arts Council, TX, Jo Lauria, juror
  
• 2009 Best of Show for Body of Work, Fiber Directions 2009, Wichita Center for the Arts, KS
  
• 2008 Mass Cultural Council local grant
• 2007 Fiberart International Directors' Award, Cost of War, Pittsburgh, PA
• 2007 Fiber Celebration, Non-functional Three Dimensional Honorable Mention, Greeley Museum, CO
• 1998 The Knitting Guild of America, Best of Show in Machine Knitting
• 1998 Niche Award Finalist
• 1993 The Philadelphia Craft Show, The Wilde Yarns Prize for Excellence in Fiber

COLLECTIONS

• The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
• The Goldstein Museum of Design, St. Paul, MN
• The Kamm Teapot Collection
  
• Private collections

SELECTED RECENT GALLERIES & EXHIBITS

2008

• Unusual Twist: Artists Knit, Embroider, Crochet, Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY
• Freedom: The Fiber of Our Nation, Textile Center, Invited Artist, Minneapolis, MN
• Curator, Beyond Knitting: Uncharted Stitches, The San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA
• Invited Artist: Peace & Politics: An Artists' Agenda for America, with the Buyers Market of America Craft, Philadelphia, PA
• Invited Artist: I-4 Corridor: Stretching Threads across Florida, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
• Violence Transformed, 'Art and Protest' Digital Exhibit, Doric Hall, Massachusetts State House
• War, Madness and Delusion, Andover Newton Theological School, MA
• Women of the Cloth, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA

2007

• Fiberart International 2007, Pittsburgh, PA, catalogue traveled to the Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, NC and to The Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia
• Drink It In; An Exhibition of Handcrafted Drinking Vessels, Worcester Center for Craft, MA
• Hot: Artists Respond to Global Warming, The Depot Square Gallery, Lexington, MA 
• Fiber Celebration 2007, City of Greeley Museum, CO, Betty Vera, juror
• Stretched Threads, Atlantic Center for the Arts, FL 

2006

• Arsenal Center for the Arts Members’ Show, Watertown, MA, Ceci Mendez, curator
• Crafts National, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA, Gretchen Keyworth, curator
• Fiber Fever, Foundry Art Centre, St Charles, MO, Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, juror
• Reduce Reuse Recycle, Rose Marine Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
• Tied Together, Textile Art in the 21st Century,Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ, Rebecca Stevens, curator

2005

• Beyond the Classroom, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA Connie Kantar, curator Transformation, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA, Arthur Dion, curator
• NOTHING NEW, Fiber Art from Recycled Materials, The Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN, Gyongy Laky, curator

Other Selected Galleries, Exhibitions and Juried Craft Shows

• The American Crafts Museum, NYC '91
• Colored Threads VII, Katie Gingrass Gallery, WI:'97 '98
• Crafts at the Castle, Boston, MA: '89 '90 '92 '93 '94 '95 '99
• Crafts Park Avenue, NY: 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 98
• The DeCordova Museum Style Show, Lincoln, MA: 96, 97, 98
• Gifts of Art, The Mills Gallery, Boston, MA: 90
• Julie’s Artisan’s Gallery, NYC: 90
• The Philadelphia Craft Show, Phila, PA: 93, 95, 96, 98
• Randolph Associates Fine Arts, MA: 00
• Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC: 96
• TLD Design center and Gallery, IL: 98, 99, 00

Selected PRESS & REVIEWS

• FiberArts Magazine, Awards & Notes, Summer 2010
• Cutting Cloth Annual 2009, Creating Wearable Forms with Knitting, by Della Reams, put out by the Center for Pattern Design
• Yarn Magazine, Australian Artful Knit Workshop Review, by Christine Jones, issue 16/December, 2009
• The Culture of Knitting by Joanne Turney, Berg Publishers, UK Oct, 2009
• Needling the Establishment, authored article on knitting and politics, Surface Design Journal, summer, 2009
• Protest as an Art Form, profile, Surface Design Journal, by Patricia Malarcher, summer, 2009
• Artist Profile, Get Creative Magazine, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, May 2009
• Beyond Knitting: Uncharted Stitches, In Review, Surface Design Journal, by Jacqueline Ruyak, Spring, 2009
• Freedom: The Fiber of our Nation, The Star Tribune, Minn-St Paul, MN, Sept 18, 2008
• Profiled in Knitting Art: 150 Innovative Works from 18 Contemporary Artists, by Karen Searle, Voyageur Press October 2008
• Sew Fine, Daytona Beach News-Journal Online, June 15, 2008
• Fiberarts International 2007 review, Surface Design Journal, Sprng 2008
• Seeing the Wiring on the Wall, profile, The Boston Globe, September 2, 2007
• American Craft, review, August/September, 2007
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, review, July 25, 2007
• Surface Design Newsletter, letter from the president, vol 20, no 3, Summer 2007
• Surface Design Journal, Gallery Issue, September 2006
• Rug Hooking Magazine, article, September/October 2005
• Fiberarts Design Book Six, Nancy Orban, ed., 1999
• Fiberarts Magazine, profile, January/February 1999
• The Crafts Report, July 1998

SELECTED CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

• Textile Center, Artful Knit: A Sculptural Approach to Knitting, Minneapolis, MN 2010
• Knitting Artfully Talk, Textile Study Group of NY, March 17, 2010
• Free Form Knitting, The Community Guild Studios, Slater Mills, Pawtucket RI, 2010
• Surface Design Association: 2009 Off the Grid Conference, workshop, Kansas City, 2009
• Syracuse University: Visiting Artist to the Fibers Program, 2008
• NH Weaver’s Guild: Workshop and Lecture, April, 2008
• Syracuse University: Visiting Artist to the Fibers Program Feb, 2008
• Workshop: MetroWest Knitting Guild, 2007
• Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, 2006-present
  
• The Fiber Art Center, Amherst, MA 2006-7

International Workshops

• ATASDA Australian Textile & Surface Design Assoc, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Sept 19, 20, 21, 2009
• The Australian Forum for Textile Arts, Ltd, The Geelong FORUM, Sept 27-Oct 3, 2009
• Aotearoa Textile Fiber Forum NZ, Wellington, NZ, October 5 – 9, 2009
• SID (Strategies for International Development), Puno, Peru workshops in Amantani, Capachica, Llachon and Siale, July 2006
• Alma de los Andes, El Alto, Bolivia, machine knitting workshops 2006
• Arequippa, Peru, work with Art Atlas designing for Indigenous Designs, July, 2005
  
• Alma de los Andes, Sorata, Bolivia, workshop week with lead knitters, October, 2004
  

BOARDS & AFFILIATIONS 

• Arsenal Center for the Arts, Board Member 2000-2009
• Arsenal Center for the Arts, Co-Chair Exhibits 2005-present
• WARP Weave a Real Peace, Board member 2005-2010
• Surface Design Association member 2005-present
• Watertown Cultural Council, Chair 1998-2003