I love color, line, texture, and layers.
My current work explores these combined interests.

2003 Winthrop University Art Department courses in Art History and Silk-screening

2001 Penland School, Penland, North Carolina

1996 Quilt Surface Design Symposium, Columbus, Ohio, 7-day workshop with Kathleen O’Connor

1994 Quilt Surface Design Symposium, Columbus, Ohio, 5-day workshop with Nancy Crow

1994 Ruth McDowell 3-day workshop, Charlotte, North Carolina

1983 Nancy Crow 3-day workshop, Charlotte, North Carolina

1982 Bachelor of Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

2009-1998 Fort Mill School Board Member

1999-1993 President and Founder of Batiks Etcetera, an international mail order fabric business

1988-1985 ACRT, Inc. Consulting Company, Kent Ohio

1988-1986 Shepherd College Library, Shepherdstown, West Virginia

1985-1982 Department of Energy, Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University

2006 Scrapbooks on the Go: Collect and Create While Your Travel, Author, published by C & T Publishing, Concord, California

new directions in Altered Books by Gabe Cyr, published by Lark Books, contributing Artist

2005 Altered Board Book Basics and Beyond, Author, published by C & T Publishing, Concord, California

The Art of Fabric Books, Author, published by C & T Publishing, Concord, California

2004 Focus On Batiks, Author, published by C & T Publishing, Concord, California

2003 Wine Country Quilts, published by C & T Publishing, Concord, California, contributing Artist

Bode-acious Backgrounds, International Society of Altered Book Artists, Altered Words, Midlothian, Virginia

Fluid Acrylics, Feed the Addict, Brighton, Michigan

Fabric Frames, dogeared' zine, Seattle Washington

Alphabet Obsession, Altered Book magazine, Minnesota

2001 Batik for Artists and Quiltmakers, Eloise Piper, contributing Artist Creative Embellishments, Rodale Press

2000 Creative Embellishments, Rodale Press The Herald, Weekend Ticket, Rock Hill, South Carolina

1998 The Ultimate Book of Quilt Labels, Margo J. Clabo, That Patchwork Place, contributing Artist

The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, North Carolina

Living in South Carolina magazine, Abbeville, South Carolina

Piecefully Yours – A Quilters Newsletter

1996 Sew News magazine

1995 Triennial 95, South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, South Carolina

1993 The Leader, Charlotte, North Carolina

Lady’s Circle Patchwork Quilts magazine, July issue

The Herald, Rock Hill, South Carolina

1992-PRESENT Statewide, Regional, National, and International experience teaching and lecturing at college campuses, technical schools, museums, fabric stores, and quilt guilds

2004 Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio
Muscatine Art Center, Muscatine, Iowa
Lafayette Natural History Museum, Lafayette, Louisiana

2003 Off the bed, on THE WALL, Fitton Center, Hamilton, Ohio
Vantage Point South: Art Quilts, Page-Walker Arts Center, Cary, North Carolina
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin
Stauth Memorial Museum, Montezuma, Kansas
Opelousas Museum of Art, Opelousas, Louisiana
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, Wisconsin

2002 Art Institute of Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina
Anderson Arts Center, Anderson, South Carolina
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, Indiana
H. Wayne Stark Gallery, College Station, Texas

2001 Wrapped in a Living Tradition in Gallery L, Charlotte, North Carolina
Eclectic Expressions: Works by Southeastern Textile Artists, Atlanta
International Museum of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia
National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, Goldsboro, North Carolina
Expanding Boundaries traveling exhibit

2002 Quilts = Arts = Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, New York

1999 Denison University Art Gallery, Granville, Ohio

1998 Border Biennial Exhibit, Museum of York County, Rock Hill, South Carolina
Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival IX, Williamsburg, Virginia
American Quilter’s Society Show and Context, Paducah Kentucky

1997 Quilts = Arts = Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, New York

1994 Come See Me Juried Art Exhibition, Museum of York County, Rock Hill, South Carolina

1993 Quiltfest USA, Louisville, Kentucky
American Quilter’s Society Show and Contest, Paducah Kentucky

1992 Hoffman Challenge Traveling Exhibit
Great American Quilt Contest, Lands End, Dodgeville, Wisconsin

2003 Old Traditions: New Views, Center for the Arts, Dalton Gallery, Rock Hill, South Carolina, 2-person show

2003 Barnful of Quilts, Waxhaw, North Carolina

2002 The Art of the Quilt, 3rd Biennial Invitational Quilt Show, Piedmont Arts Association, Martinsville, Virginia
30 Colorful Years, Anderson County Arts Center, Anderson, South Carolina

2001 Garden Wall Gallery, York South Carolina New Art Quilt Show, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus Ohio

2000 Quilt Regional: Breaking Traditions, Museum of York County, Rock Hill, South Carolina
Quilt Canada 2000, Toronto Ontario Canada
Spruill Gallery, Atlanta Georgia
Signatures in Fabric III Quilt Show, Odessa Washington
Traylor Gallery, Berea College, Berea, Kentucky
Colander Quilt Exhibit, Fine Line Creative Arts Center, St. Charles, Illinois
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, Colorado
New Pieces Art Gallery, Berkeley, California
Cleopatra Steps Out Gallery, Asbury Park, New Jersey

1999 Quilts at the Crossroads, Flint, Michigan
Southwest School of the Arts, San Antonio, Texas
Colander Quilt Exhibit, Quilt America, Indianapolis, Indiana
New England Quilt Festival
Midland Art Center, Midland, Michigan
Quilts at the Crossroads, Flint, Michigan
American Stitches show, Novi, Michigan
American Stitches show, Buffalo, New York
American Stitches show, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1998 Charlotte Douglas International Airport Exhibit, Charlotte, North Carolina
Quilters of South Carolina Fall Retreat Winnsboro, South Carolina

1997 NorthEast Medical Center Exhibit, Concord, North Carolina
Quilters of South Carolina Fall Retreat Winnsboro, South Carolina

1994 Borders Book Store Exhibit, Charlotte, North Carolina
Cotswold Mall Fall Festival of Arts, Skillbeck Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
Knight Publishing Exhibit, Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte City Library Exhibit, Charlotte, North Carolina

1993 Fort Mill/Tega Cay Arts Association Exhibit, Fort Mill, South Carolina

1992 Knight Publishing Exhibit, Charlotte, North Carolina
Skillbeck Gallery’s Fall Festival of Arts, Cotswold Mall, Charlotte, North Carolina