Curriculum Vitae
Education
1994 - present
· Workshops, lectures and retreats with many internationally acclaimed textile artists
2003
· City & Guilds Distance Learning in Stitched Textiles, Sian Martin, England
1993
· Diploma of Education, FSL & ESL, McGill University, Montreal
1980
· Honour BA, High Distinction, French and Canadian Literature, University of Toronto
Employment
1997 - present
· Internationally acclaimed Textile Artist and Teacher: Workshops, lectures and trunk shows in many quilting techniques for shops, guilds, retreats, art programs, schools, the Haliburton School for the Arts, the Canadian Quilting Association and the National Creativ Festival
1986-94 and 2004-2006
· Core French and Immersion Teacher, Upper Grand District School Board, Guelph
1983-86
· ESL Grade 7 Teacher, Cree School Board, Mistassini Lake, Northern Quebec
Solo Exhibitions
2017
· "Being Here Now", Elora Centre for the Arts
2016
· "Stonethreads", CQA National Conference, Toronto
2015
· "What Remains", Homer Watson House and Gallery, Kitchener
· "The Colours of Snow", Creativ Festival, Toronto
2013
· "Knowing" Café Creperie, Elora
2012
· "Allowing" Greenwood Quiltery & Gallery, Guelph
· "Downstream" Yorkville Public Library, Toronto
Group Shows
Many of these are exhibitions that travel globally over a period of years.
2025
· “Now: Contemporary Art Quilts of Today”, SAQA, Houston
· “Insights”, Wellington County Museum, Elora
· “BLUE!”, Connections Fibre Artists, Homer Watson Gallery, Kitchener
· “Primal Forces: Fire, SAQA Global Exhibition, National Quilt Museum, Paducah
· “Sacred Threads Travel Exhibition”, Houston
· “Whisper Project 2”, Ingersoll
2024
· Pictorial Large and Small, Hands All Around, Tactile Architecture, Houston
· “Sacred Threads”, Houston
· “Camouflage”, SAQA Global Exhibition, Houston
· “Insights”, Wellington County Museum, Elora
· “Grand National - Delights”, Castlegar, BC
· “Re: Play”, Connections, Wellington County Museum
· CQA National Juried Show, Edmonton
· “Renewal”, SAQA Canadian Exhibition, Homer Watson Gallery
· “Threads of Existence”, Southampton Museum
· “SAQA Journal Gallery, Curated Print Exhibition
2023
· "A Celebration of Colour", Houston, Long Beach
· "Body Language", SAQA Virtual Exhibition
· CQA National Juried Show, Halifax
· "Whisper Project", SAQA Regional, Guelph
· "Minimalism", SAQA Global Exhibition, Houston
· “Sybil Show”, Orillia Museum
2022
· "Insights", Wellington County Museum, Elora
· Connections, Joshua Creek, Oakville
2021
· "Quilt National", Dairy Barn, Ohio
· "Grand National - Crossroads", Edmonton
· "Artefacts: Connections", Wellington County Museum, Elora
· "Microscapes" SAQA Global, Houston
· "Quarantine Quilts", Dr Sandra Sider Invitational
· "Off the Page", Connections, Grimsby
· National Juried Show, virtual
2020
· "Colour With a U", SAQA Regional, Kitchener
· "Backyard Escape", Sacred Threads, Virginia
· CQA National Juried Show, virtual
· "Beyond the Mirror", SAQA Global Exhibition
· "Tactile Architecture", IQA, Houston
· "Hands All Around", IQA, Houston
· "Primal Forces - Earth", SAQA Global Exhibition, Houston
2019
· "Sapphire", IQA, Houston
· "3D Expressions", SAQA Global Exhibition
· "A Better World", Houston
· "Re: Fashion", Connections, Wellington County Museum, Elora
· "Opposites Attract", SAQA Global Exhibition
2018
· "Selections" by Connections, Stratford-Perth Museum
· "The Lovers Tarot Card", Wellington County Museum, Elora
· "Metamorphosis", SAQA Global Exhibition, Houston
· "OURstory", Houston
· CQA National Juried Show, Vancouver
· "Values", Faculty Invitational, Haliburton
· "Insights", Wellington County Museum, Elora
· Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn New York
2017
· "Faculty Invitational", Haliburton College
· "Running With Fibre", Gallery Stratford
· "ARTefacts", Wellington County Museum, Elora
· "HERstory", Houston
· "Tactile Architecture", Houston
· "Sacred Threads", Washington DC
· "Insights", Wellington County Museum, Elora
· "Death Perceptions", Wellington County Museum, Elora
· "The River is Calling", Elora Centre for the Arts
· "OH!! Canada", Grand National, Kitchener
· CQA National Juried Show, Toronto
· "Studio Tour Show", Elora Centre for the Arts
2016
· "Shape Shifting", PQF, Oregon
· "Flashback", Threadworks, Wellington County Museum
· "Fibre Content", Burlington Art Gallery
· "Turmoil", SAQA, Houston
· "My Corner of the World - International" SAQA, Stratford Perth Museum
· "My Corner of the World - Canada", SAQA, Stratford Perth Museum
· "Threadworks - Flashback", Wellington County Museum & Archives
· "Fly Me to the Moon", Houston
· CQA National Juried Show, Toronto
· "Insights" Wellington County Museum and Archives
2015
· Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, England
· "Balancing Act", SAQA, Houston
· "Wild Fabrications", SAQA, Houston
· SAQA Online Galleries: "The Road Goes On Forever", "On Random", Limited Palette", “Story Telling"
· World Quilt Competition, Mancuso, New England
· CQA National Juried Show, Lethbridge Alberta
· "Connections" Grand National, Joseph Schneider Haus, Kitchener
· "Outside the Lines", Rail's End, Haliburton Faculty Show
· "18 Square", Connections Fibre Artists, Creativ Festival, Toronto
· "Celebrating the Seven", Connections Fibre Artists, Wellington County Museum & Archives, Elora
2014
· "O Canada", IQF, Houston, Chicago
· Tactile Architecture, Quilts Inc., Houston
· "The Edge of the Forest", SDA
· "It's Time for Colour", CQA/ACC invitational
· "Fibre Content", Burlington Centre for the Arts
· CQA National Juried Show, St Catherine’s
· "Metaphors on Aging" IQF Chicago and Portland
· "Insights" Wellington County Museum and Archives
2013
· "Metaphors on Aging" SAQA, Birmingham
· "Insights" Wellington County Museum and Archives
· "Oh Canada" IQF Chicago, Houston and Long Beach, California
· "Threadworks" Wellington County Museum and Archives
· "This is Life" Rail's End Gallery, Haliburton Faculty Show
· "Higher Ground" Guelph Civic Museum
· "Connections at Greenwood" Greenwood Quiltery, Guelph
· "12 x12" Styll Gallery, Elora
· Elora Fergus Studio Tour Show Elora Centre for the Arts
· Elora Tarot Project Wellington County Museum and Archives
· "The Birds and the Bees" Stratford Perth Museum
2012
· "Insights", Wellington County Museum and Archives
· National Juried Show Invitational, Halifax
· "Red", Whitestone Gallery, Guelph
· "Push, Pull", Rail's End Gallery, Haliburton
· “World of Threads”, Oakville
· "Fibre Content", Burlington Performing Arts Centre
· "14 Hands", Elora Centre for the Arts
· Elora Fergus Studio Tour Show, Elora Centre for the Arts
· The Harris Artist's Collective, Elora Centre for the Arts
· Creativ Festival, Toronto
2011
· "Insights", Wellington County Museum and Archives
· "Pentimento", Salmon Arm Gallery, BC
· "Artcetera', Elora Centre for the Arts, Elora
· "DIY Plaid", McDougall Cottage Gallery, Cambridge
· CQA Quilt National, Western University, London
· "Breathe", Rail's End Gallery, Haliburton
· "Silver - Elora-Fergus Studio Tour Shows", Wellington Artists' Gallery, Elora Centre for the Arts
· "Wish", Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, Oakville
· "The Lily Show", Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton
· "Fibre Optix", Orillia Museum of Art and History
2010
· "Naked", Carnegie Gallery, Dundas and Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, Oakville
· "Hanging by a Thread", Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, Oakville
· "Spring Cleaning", Elora Centre for the Arts, Elora
· "Canadian Quilters' Association Invitational Show", Calgary, Alberta
· "Threadworks - Trees", Wellington County Museum & Archives, Fergus
· "Grand National Quilt Show - Off the Wall", Homer Watson House Gallery, Kitchener
· "The Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre Annual Spring Show", Oakville
· "Guelph Studio Tour 25th Anniversary Show", Barber Gallery, Guelph
2009
· "Hanging By a Thread" Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte
· "Connections" Leonard E. Shore Gallery, Thornbury
· "Insights" Wellington County Museum & Archives, Elora
· "The Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre Annual Spring Show", Oakville
· "Mosaic of Artists", Wellington Artists' Gallery, Fergus
· "2009 Elora Fergus Studio Tour Show", Elora Center for the Arts
· "CFUW Artist's Show and Sale", Westminster Library, Guelph
2008
· "Dreams", Elora Centre for the Arts
· "Hippie Connections Revisited", Joshua Creek Gallery, Oakville
2007
· "Glitz, Glitz, Glitz, Beads & Embellishments", World Piece Quilt Exhibit, Waterloo Quilt Festival
· "The Hippie Show", Gallery Lambton, Sarnia Ontario
2006
· "Connections in Guelph", Guelph Civic Museum
· "Connections at Greenwood Quiltery", Guelph
· "Capital Matters", CQA Ottawa, Southampton Gallery, Oakville, Toronto Creativ Festival
2005
· "Creative Ignition", Rail's End Gallery, Haliburton
· CQA Quilt National, Waterloo
· Ontario Juried Quilt Show, University of Waterloo Art Gallery
· "Connections at Homer Watson", Homer Watson Gallery, Kitchener
· "Personal Favourites", Elora Centre for the Arts
2004
· "Threads of Love", Guelph Civic Museum
· Ontario Juried Quilt Show, University of Waterloo Art Gallery
· Connections: Textile Art Based on the Work of Florence Carlyle, Woodstock Gallery
· "Sentimental Journeys" Carnegie Gallery, Dundas
· "Threadworks, The Garden Party", travelling to 16 galleries across Ontario 2004-2007
· "Insights", Wellington County Museum & Archives, Elora
· "The Year's Best", Victoria Park Gallery, Kincardine
2003
· "Connections Work", Barber Gallery, Guelph
· Kaleidoscope of the Guelph Studio Tour Show, Kaleidoscope Restaurant, Guelph
· Ontario Juried Quilt Show, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo
· CQA Quilt National, Fredericton, New Brunswick
· The Grand National, KW Gallery, Kitchener
· "Insights", Wellington County Museum & Archives, Elora
· "A Gathering of Quilts", Royal City Quilters Guild Show, Guelph
2002
· "Undercurrents", Dundas Carnegie Gallery
· "Inner Visions -- Gut Feelings", Quilt Canada, The Butterdome, Edmonton
· "Insights", Wellington County Museum and Archives, Elora
· "Fairy Tales, Myths and Monsters", Grimsby Public Art Gallery
· Creative Sewing & Needlework Show, for Waterloo County & Area Quilt Festival, Toronto
· Ontario Juried Quilt Show, KW Art Gallery, Kitchener
· "The Year's Best", Bruce County Museum and Archives, Southampton
· "Beyond the Frame", Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
2001
· "Something Old, Something New", Wellington County Museum and Archives, Elora
· "Threadworks, Elements", a textile art show travelling to 10 galleries across Ontario
· Ontario Juried Quilt Show, KW Art Gallery, Kitchener
· "10 Pieceful Years", Guelph Civic Museum
· "The Year's Best", Bruce County Museum and Archives, Southampton
2000
· Ontario Juried Quilt Show, KW Gallery, Kitchener
· "A Gathering of Quilts" Royal City Quilters' Guild Show, Guelph
· "Mother Earth" Wellington County Museum, Elora
· "Roots and Wings" International Ploughing Match, Wellington County Museum, Elora
· "Threads of Strength: Women of the Castle" Castle Kilbride, Baden Ontario
1999
· Ontario Juried Quilt Show, KW Art Gallery, Kitchener
1998
· Ontario Juried Quilt Show, KW Art Gallery, Kitchener
· "Material Pleasures", Guelph Civic Museum
1997
· Ontario Juried Quilt Show, KW Art Gallery, Kitchener
Professional Associations
· SAQA Juried Art Member
· SAQA Board of Directions 2020 - 2024
· SAQA Development Committee 2020 - 2024
· SAQA, Chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the 2020 moSAiQA Conference
· SAQA, Central Canada Regional Representative 2017-19
· Canadian Quilters' Association, Teacher and Professional Member
· Connections: A national group of textile artists who exhibit across Canada
Fine Art & Craft Shows & Auctions
· Sold work at the following venues: One of a Kind, Creativ Festival, Studio Tours, Fair November, Inside Art Expo, IQA Houston, SAQA Spotlight and Benefit Auctions
Awards
2025
· “Insights” Fibre Arts Award, Wellington County Museum
2024
· CQA National Juried Show, Juror’s Award
2019
· “Indigo Party” used as IQA Sapphire Anniversary Logo Quilt
2018
· Insights Elora Arts Council Award, Wellington County Museum
2016
· Insights Fibre Award, Wellington County Museum, Elora
· Threadworks Grand Prize, Elora
2014
· First Prize for Original Design in Non-Representational Wall Quilts, CQA Quilt National
2013
· Canadian Quilting Association - The 2013 National Award for Excellence in Innovation
· Insights Purchase Award Wellington County Museum and Archives
· Threadworks Juror's Award
2005
· First Prize for Machine Quilting, CQA Quilt National, Waterloo
· First Prize for Machine Piecing, CQA Quilt National, Waterloo
2004
· First Prize for Machine Quilting on a Domestic Sewing Machine, Ontario Juried Quilt Show, Waterloo
2002
· University of Guelph Craft Collection Purchase Award, Fair November
· Canadian Embroiders' Association Award, Insights Show, Insights, Elora
2001
· New Artisan's Scholarship, One of a Kind Show, Toronto
Judging & Jurying
2021
· SAQA Regional Exhibition "Imagination: 1x4"
2016
· SAQA Online Exhibit "Blue is the Colour of My Soul"