CAROL SHINN (Condensed resume)
MFA, AZ State Univ., Tempe, AZ, 1988; BFA Univ. of CO, Boulder, CO, 1972
Selected One, Two, and Three-Person Exhibitions since 1998
Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (solo) 2009, 2007, 2005, 2003
Hibberd McGrath Gallery, Breckenridge, CO (solo) 2009, 2007, 2004, 2002, 2001
Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles (small solo) 2007
Stitched Marks, Harwood Museum, Taos, NM (three-person) (Catalog) 2007
West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, AZ, (solo) 2004
2001-02 Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ (3-person) 2002; Patina Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (3-person) 2002;
University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM (solo) 2001
Selected Invitational Group and International Exhibitions since 1998
Innovators & Legends:Generations in Textiles & Fiber, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI (scheduled
2012/13 and touring)
Textiles Today—Redefining the Medium, Durango Arts Center, Durango, CO (scheduled 2012)
Art of the Stitch, Quilt Visions Gallery, San Diego, CA 2010-11
SOFA Santa Fe 2010, SOFA Expo, Chicago, IL (scheduled 2011) 2009 Jane Sauer Gallery
Landscape—Let Us Travel, Alexandra Palace, London, England, touring 2009-10 (Catalog) Fine Arts Award
A Stitch in Our Time, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI 2008-09
Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, Museum of Arts & Design, NY, NY 2007-08 (Catalog)
Saturn Returns, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA 2007-08 (Catalog)
Colorado’s Small Stitches, Tointon Gallery, Greeley, CO 2007
Material Difference, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2006 (Catalog)
Art Embroidery, Alexandra Palace, London, England and touring 2004-05
SOFA Expo, Chicago, IL (Hibberd McGrath Gallery) 2000-05
Enhancing the Surface, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO 2003
Digital Delights, (award), SDA Conference, Kansas City, MO 2003
Threading the Eye Sherry Leedy Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2003
Threads of Memory, Metropolitan State College of Denver, CO 2002
In Stitches, 2002-04 touring and Embroidery 2000, 2000, Gallery Materia, Scottsdale, AZ
Drawing the Thread, SW School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, TX 2001
Reality Check, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH 2001
1999-98Nos Plus Belles Histoires Brodees, Invitational, Folk Art Museum, Paris, France, 1999; Splendid World of Needle
Arts, Invitational, touring Japan, 1999; Uncommon Threads, 1999 and Millennium Reflections, Sky Harbor
Airport, Phoenix, AZ 1999; Us and the U.S., Invitational exhibit touring New Zealand, 96-98; 1ere Biennale
du Lin en Haute Normandie, Fountaine-Sous-Jouy, France-toured, 96-98
Public and Corporate Collections
Fire, Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, NY
Summer Mud and Chimney Rock, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Red Hub and Car Once Black, University of NM, Albuquerque, NM
Red Truck, Red Building, and Waiting for the Future, Blg K Univ. of NM, Los Lunas, NM
Palm Tree, and Storm Clearing Permanent Collection, West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, AZ
Persephone and Orpheus Leads Eurydice, Landmark Bank, Madill, OK
Texture Study and Parking Lot Agave, City Heritage Art Collection, Tempe, AZ
Exit 242, Visual Arts Collection, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C.
Treeless Places #5, Dial Corp., Phoenix, AZ (chosen as a Governor's Award to Dial )
Rock, Salt River Project, Phoenix, AZ (chosen as Governor's Arts Award to SRP)
Telephone Pole, Blue Car, and Desert Mountains, Sky Harbor Internat. Airport, Phoenix, AZ
Desert City, Snell and Wilmer Law Offices, Phoenix, AZ
Rock and Clouds, and Treeless Places, Mobay Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
Untitled, Spaulding Co., Burlington, MA
Migratory Species, RMI Consulting, Inc., Port Washington, NY
Narrative, Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, IA
Scottsdale Adobe Ranch, Scottsdale Adobe Ranch, Scottsdale, AZ
Fragmented Ribbons on Sand, HIP Bronx and Cross Medical Center, Yonkers, NY
Landscape, American Express, Phoenix, AZ
Bifidity #1, Permanent Collection, Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, NC
Two Columns, Hale Boggs Federal District Court House, New Orleans, LA
Selected Information about the Artist since 1995 (See also catalogs listed with shows above)
Machine Stitch Perspectives, Alice Kettle and Jane Keating, A&C Black, London 2010
“Stitched Vistas”, by Lynn Cornelius, Fiberarts, Summer 2010
“Natural Wonders Abound”(Editor’s Page), Marci McDade, Fiberarts, Summer 2010
Freestyle Machine Embroidery: Techniques and Inspiration for Fiber Art, by Carol Shinn 2009
Review for ‘Pricked:Extreme Embroidery” Barbara MacAdam Art News, February 2008
“Carol Shinn”, Wolf Schneider, Southwest Art, Jan 2008
Material Difference, Friends of Fiber Art Internat’l, Western Springs, IL 2006
Gallery Issue (picture), Surface Design Journal, Sept. 2006
“Parting Shot”, American Style, April 2006
Color and Composition, Katie Pasquini Masopust & Brett Barker, C&T Pub., Inc., Lafayette, CA 2005
“Greek Myths”, Jessica Hemmings, article & cover, Surface Design Journal, fall 2005
“Painting with Thread”, Stew Mosberg, article & cover, Cultural Times, Sept/Oct 2005
The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience, Lark Books 2004
Fiberarts Design Book Seven, 2004: Fiberarts Design Book Six, 1999
“Embroidery Artist”, staff, Tempo Magazine/Taos News, Dec. 18-23, 2003
“3 Artists: Women’s Creations Rooted in Cultural Diversity”, S. Derrickson Moore, New Mexico, 9/03
“Informed Source”, Surface Design, Winter 2003, “Exposure”, Surface Design Journal, Summer issue, 1991
“Scrapheap Challenge”, Jessica Hemmings, Embroidery, (England) Jan 2003
“Past Views”, Kate Bonansinga, American Craft, Oct./Nov 2001
“Review-Embroidery 2000”, Linda Lewis, Fiberarts, Nov/Dec 2000
“Artist of the Week”, Sun News, Las Cruces (full page), Derrickson Moore, 10/23/2000
“New Works,” Fiberarts, Mar/Apr 2000
1995-99“Review-Threadscapes”, D. Joiner, Fiberarts, Mar/Apr 99; “Gallery,” American Crafts, Feb/Mar, 98;
“Collaborating with Nature”, Barbara Smith, Surface Design Journal, Spring, 97; Article & cover, Georgia Review,
summer, 96; Cover for No Lie Like Love, University of Georgia Press, 96; Article & cover, Organica Quarterly, Vol.
15 No.55, Winter, 96; Article & cover, Needleart, Vol. 7 (Tokyo, Japan), 96; “Profile” and cover, Fiberarts, Nov,
95; “Review-Internat’l Embroidery Exhibit-Japan,” Betsy S. Benjamin, Fiberarts, Jan/Feb., 95
Selected Courses, Workshops, and Lectures Given
Alegre Retreat, Gateway, CO, machine embroidery and lecture 2010
Quilting by the Lake, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY, machine embroidery class, 2010, 2008
Arrowmont School, Gatlinburg, TN machine-embroidery, 09,06, 04, 02, 98, 96, 95, 94
QSDS, Columbus, OH, machine-embroidery workshops, 2009, 2000, 1999
Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles, Montreal, Canada, 2007
Art Quilt Tahoe, machine embroidery, Olympic Valley, CA, 2006
Surface Design Conference, Kansas City, MO, machine-embroidery class, 2005, 2003
Split Rock, U. of MN, St. Paul, MN machine-embroidery class, 2004
Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ; W. Valley Arts Museum, Surprise, AZ lectures 2004
Harwood Museum, Taos, NM, lecture, 2003
Arizona Designer Craftsmen at Tucson Park and Recreation, lecture and workshop, 2003, 2000
Textiles 5 Symposium”, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO, machine-embroidery workshop, 2003
A.C.C Southeastern Conference, Deland, FL, machine-embroidery and color workshops, 2003
Textile Arts Alliance, Santa Fe, NM; Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ lectures, 2002
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM lecture, 2001
Alegre Retreat, Santa Fe, NM, machine-embroidery class, 2001
Penland School, Penland, NC, machine-embroidery 2000, 97, 95, 93, surface-design, fall session-98, tapestry-91
Haystack School, Deer Isle, ME machine embroidery class, 2000
Arizona State University, School of Art, Tempe, AZ, weaving classes, sabbatical replacement, 1997-8
Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ, design and color classes, adjunct faculty, 1989-97
Baylor University, Waco, TX machine-embroidery lecture and workshop; IL State Univ., lecture, 1996
Peter’s Valley School, Peter’s Valley, NJ, machine-embroidery class, 1997
Council of American Embroiderers, St. Louis, MO, machine embroidery seminar, 1994
Various workshops and lectures given 1989-1993
AZ State University, Grad Assistant: sole instructor--Beginning Fibers- 3 semesters, Color- 2 semesters, Intermediate
Surface Design-one semester; assistant for computer graphics lab-2 semesters, 1985-88