THEATRE ARTS

2001 – 2018 – Oregon Shakespeare Festival Ashland, OR – Dyer/Painter Costumes
1991 – 2000  – Old Globe Theatre, San Diego CA – Dyer/Painter Costumes
1989 – 1990 – Seattle Opera, Seattle WA  Costume Props & Dyer/Painter
1988 – 1989 – Seattle Repertory Theatre – Seattle, WA  Properties  Artisan & Dyer/Painter
1987 – 1988 – Goodman Theatre Chicago, IL – Dyer/Painter Costumes
Old Globe Theatre San Diego, CA – Dyer/Painter Costumes
1985 -1987 – American Conservatory Theatre San Francisco, CA – Costume Props & Dyer/Painter
Berkeley Repertory Theatre Berkeley, CA – Costume Design Assistant & Dyer/Painter
Sandra Woodall Costumes San Francisco, CA – Costume Props & Dyer/Painter
Dale Wibben Studios San Francisco, CA – Dyer/Painter Costumes
La Jolla Playhouse  La Jolla, CA – Dyer/Painter Costumes
1984 – 1986 – San Francisco Opera San Francisco, CA   Dyer/Painter Costumes

EXHIBITIONS

The first two exhibitions include costumes where I dyed /painted & developed treatments for the fabric .
The following are group & solo exhibitions tincluding my textile artwork.

2000 – current

COSTUME DESIGN AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY 1990 – 2015 : Bakhrushin Museum,  Moscow, Russia

CURTAIN CALL, CELEBRATION A CENTURY OF WOMEN DESIGNING FOR LIVE PERFORMANCE  : New York Public Library for the Performing Arts ,Lincoln Center,  New York, NY

BEYOND THE SURFACE with National Surface Design Conference: Oregon College of Art & Craft

LOOKING : Chet Holcomb Studio, Washington, DC

THE VELVET PRESS :  Lava Lounge,  SEATTLE, WA

VILLA DELIRIUM :  The Grand Central Art Gallery,  Santa Ana CA

1990’s

NORTHWEST NOIR : Vox Populi Gallery , Seattle, WA

CHRIS CARPENTER : Sony Art Walk,  San Diego, CA

FIBER SCULPTURE NATIONAL : Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester ,NY

WEARABLE ART : Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, MO

ROSCO’S GREATEST HITS : Rosco Louie Gallery, Seattle, WA

1980’s

CHRIS CARPENTER : Rosco Louie Gallery, Seattle, WA

TOYS DESIGNED BY ARTISTS Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

FIFTH INVITATIONAL FIBERS & FABRICS : ILLINOIS STATE MUSEUM , SPRINGFIELD, IL

CHRIS CARPENTER : Westlake Gallery, White Plains, NY

2nd NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF PACKAGES :University of Wisconsin, Stephens Point, WI

NEEDLE EXPRESSIONS: Center for the Arts, Tulsa, OK

INTERWEAVE : University of Toledo, Toledo, OH

STITCHERY: Arts & Crafts Center, Pittsburg, PA

PUBLICATIONS

Images of costumes that I  have painted, printed, dyed or altered
are in these publications and some include pieces of my individual artwork in fiber.

Alexis Greene CURTAIN CALL (J.S. McCarthy Printers, Augusta, ME. 2009) p.79

Rosemary Ingham, Liz Covey, THE COSTUME TECHNICIANS HANDBOOK (Heinemann Portsmouth, NH,2004),P.274

Dryden, Deborah, FABRIC PAINTING & DYEING FOR THE THEATRE Portsmouth , NH:Heinemann.1993),pp.195,196

Gallery, AMERICAN CRAFT. vol.41, No.3 (1980),p.66

Deboy,Kathleen, FIBERARTS DESIGN BOOK  (New York: Hastings House, 1980),p.64

Vosburg, Carolyn Hall, STITCHED & STUFFED ART (Worcester-Davis, 1979), pp. 11,71

GRANTS

Oregon Arts Commission, 2016, Career Opportunity Grant, Residency with Joanna Kinnersly-Taylor Glasgow, Scotland

Ford Family Foundation, 2016, Visual Arts Program

Theatre Communications Group, 2012, A-ha! Program , Artisan Exchange with Shakespeare Theatre of Washington, D.C.

Illinois Arts Council ,1981, Project Completion Grant

EDUCATION

The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Apprentice,  Philadelphia, PA

M.F.A.  Printed & Dyed Textiles , Southern Illinois University , Carbondale, IL

B.A. Fine Arts Indiana University , Bloomington, IN