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
Broaden the Aperture, Pima Community College Gallery, Tucson, AZ (scheduled 2016)
Fiber Art Masters & Innovators, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA 2014
Re:Collection, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY 2014
Threads of Change: Colorado Textiles Now, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO 2013
Innovators & Legends: Generations in Textiles & Fiber, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI 2012/14 and
touring) (Catalog)
SOFA Chicago 2011-14 & 2009 SOFA NY 2012, SOFA Santa Fe 2010-11 (Jane Sauer Gallery)
Textiles Today—Redefining the Medium, Durango Arts Center, Durango, CO 2012
Art of the Stitch, Quilt Visions Gallery, San Diego, CA 2010-11
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) 2000-2005
2003 Enhancing the Surface, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO 03; Digital Delights, (award), SDA Conference, Kansas City,
MO 03; Threading the Eye Sherry Leedy Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2003
2000-02 Threads of Memory, Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO 02; 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
1999-98 Nos 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
AZ: Landscape, American Express, Phoenix, AZ; Scottsdale Adobe Ranch, Scottsdale Adobe Ranch, Scottsdale,
AZ; Telephone Pole, Blue Car, and Desert Mountains, Sky Harbor Internat. Airport, Phoenix, AZ; Desert
City, Snell and Wilmer Law Offices, Phoenix, AZ; Rock, Salt River Project, Phoenix, AZ (chosen as
Governor's Arts Award to SRP); Treeless Places #5, Dial Corp., Phoenix, AZ (chosen as a Governor's Award
to Dial ); Texture Study and Parking Lot Agave, City Heritage Art Collection, Tempe, AZ; Palm Tree, and
Storm Clearing Permanent Collection, West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, AZ; Reflections#2; Contemporary
Arts Collection, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
CA: Early Morning Palisade, Lloyd Cotsen Textile Traces Collection
CO: Summer Mud and Chimney Rock, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
IA: Narrative, Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, IA
LA: Two Columns, Hale Boggs Federal District Court House, New Orleans, LA
MA: Untitled, Spaulding Co., Burlington, MA
NC: Bifidity #1, Permanent Collection, Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, NC; Exit 242, Visual Arts
Collection, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C.
NM: 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
NY: Migratory Species, RMI Consulting, Inc., Port Washington, NY; Fragmented Ribbons on Sand, HIP Bronx
and Cross Medical Center, Yonkers, NY; Fire, Sheer Curtains Museum of Arts and Design, New York
City, NY
OK: Persephone and Orpheus Leads Eurydice, Landmark Bank, Madill, OK
PA: Rock and Clouds, and Treeless Places, Mobay Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
WI: Tied Curtain, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Selected Information about the Artist since 1995 (See also catalogs listed with shows above)
Machine Stitch Perspectives, Alice Kettle and Jane McKeating, 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
2000 “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
Arrowmont School, Gatlinburg, TN machine-embroidery, 2014, 09,06, 04, 02, 98, 96, 95, 94
Art Quilt Santa Fe Workshop 2014
The Embroiderers’ Guild of America Fiber Forum, Wilmington, DE, 2013
Shakerag Workshop at St. Andrew’s, Sewanee, TN, 2013
MAIWA Textile Symposium Workshop, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2012, 2013
Alegre Retreat, Gateway, CO, machine embroidery and lecture 2010
Quilting by the Lake, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY, machine embroidery class, 2010, 2008
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
1994-97 Peter’s Valley School, Peter’s Valley, NJ, machine-embroidery class, 97; Baylor Univ., Waco, TX lecture &
workshop; IL State Univ., lecture, 96; Council of American Embroiderers, St. Louis, MO, seminar, 1994
1989-93Various workshops and lectures given 1989-1993
1985-88AZ 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,