RESUME
NAME: Nancy N. Erickson
Dancing Rabbit Studios
3250 Pattee Canyon Road
Missoula, Montana 59803
Telephone: (406) 549-4671
BORN: April l6, l935
Toledo, Ohio
nancron@aol.com
STATEMENT;
"Both the series of animal paint stick drawings (around 160) and the painted, quilted fabric
works are about the tenacity and humor involved in communities of individuals during times of
chaos, disintegration, and fragmentation."
EDUCATION;
University of Montana, Missoula, Montana
University of Montana, Missoula, Montana
State University of New York at Buffalo
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
1969
1965-1968
1963-1965
1962
1956-1957
1953-1956
M.F.A. in Painting
M.A. in Painting
extension classes, painting
M.S. Foods and Nutrition
B.A. Zoology
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FELLOWSHIP; HONORS
1988 Montana Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Award
2013 University of Montana, Odyssey of the Stars Honoree
SUMMARY OF EXHIBITIONS:
Approximately 500 exhibitions from 1965 to the present, including most states, Canada ,
Mexico, Japan, Korea, the People's Republic of China , Germany, Cape Verde Is., Niger, Burma,
France, Costa Rica, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Only the last twenty-six years are
listed here. The years from 1963 -1983 are available on request.
SYMPOSIA, other
2013 Panelist, Pattee Canyon Ladies’ Salon MT Museum of Art & Culture
Power point, Erickson’s work, TV, radio, other presentations; movie.
2011 symposium panelist, TRACES exhibition, North Carolina State University, Raleigh,
"NC
2007 guest panelist “What’s Art Got to do with it?” International Quilt Study Center,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
2005 guest panelist, "Rooted in Tradition” art quilt symposium, CO School of Mines,
Golden CO
2004 guest lecture to Northwest Designer Craftsmen, U. of Washington, Seattle WA
2003 Two guest lectures and two lectures, docents and art associates: Missoula Art Museum
Missoula, MT
2003 guest panelist Quilt National 2003, Athens, OH
1997 guest lecturer, Art Associates, Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula MT
1997 panelist, Women’s History Month, Women Artists, Library, Missoula MT
1996 Guest Panelist at "Vision/Revision:Fibers" in Transition" Conference, Loveland
Museum, Loveland CO
1996 Guest Speaker, Women's Studies, University of Montana "Quilts as Politics"
1993 Guest Lecturer and panelist for "Difference: Fuel for Creation", Contemporary
Quilt Art Association, Seattle, WA Title: "Contemporary Political Quilts"
GROUP, JURIED, INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS:1984 - 2013
2013
SOLO exhibition, “Kindred Spirits”, Montana Museum of Art and Culture, U. of Montana.
Missoula, MT, Appearances, radio, TV, etc.
SOLO exhibition, Montana Art and Framing, 21+ pieces, early works (fabric sculptures and flat
works from 1960’s to early 1980’s Missoula, MT
“Animal Attraction”, invitational, Umpqua Valley Arts Assn. Roseburg Or
2012
Broad Spectrum, SAQA regional exhibition, Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT
Prichard Gallery, U. of Idaho, Moscow, ID auction and exhibition
Missoula Art Museum exhibition and auction, Missoula, MT
Allied Arts Juried Art Show, Richland, WA
Missoula Art Museum TRIENNIAL, state wide competition, Missoula, MT
2011
Allied Arts Assoc. Richland, WA
The American Art Co., Tacoma, WA Fabric
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, two part art quilt
TRACES, 12 person international invitational fiber event/ symposium, North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, NC, four fiber works, presentation, etc.
2010
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, 3 part quilt, Auburn NY
Holter Christmas Show, Helena, MT
The Teapot Show, Clay Gallery, Missoula, MT. "T" fabric work
"American Celebrates" art quilt exhibition in June 2010, in Longmont, CO. Tour.
2009
Prichard Gallery, auction show, U. of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Museum of Arts and Culture, "24th Annual Works from the Heart Auction" Spokane, WA
Missoula Art Museum, "Montana Triennial " Missoula, MT
Dana Gallery, "Celebration of Missoula Artists" Missoula, MT
Montana Art and Framing, "Lions, Women, and Bears", S. Frostad, Chris Autio, N. Erickson, and
Don Mundt. Missoula, MT
2008
"A Tear in the Fabric: The conceptually driven quilt" C. Mazloomi, Juror, CA Polytechnic State
University Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo CA
The American Art Co. "10th NW Contemporary Quilt Invitational" Tacoma WA
Holter Museum, Helena, MT
Allied Arts Juried Show, Richland WA, MERIT AWARD
Prichard Art Gallery, U. of Idaho, Moscow,ID
23rd "Works from the Heart" NW Museum of Art and Culture, Spokane W
"Masters: Art Quilts" International Quilt Festival, Houston,
IQF in Chicago Ill
IQF in Long Beach, CA
Mus. of Amer. Quilters Soc. Paducah, KY
New England Quilt Mus., Lowell Mass.
"High Fiber Under Five", San Jose Mus. of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose CA
"Birds and Art" Exhibition, Monte Dolack Gallery, Missoula, MT :in collaboration with "Raptors of
the Rockies" conference
Missoula Art Museum, exhibition and auction, Missoula, MT
2007
"Speaking in Cloth" continues on tour in New Zealand:Taia Gallery in Wellington, NorthArt in
Auckland and the Center of Contemporary Art (CoCA) in Christchurch
Rocky Mountain Museum 0f Quilts in Golden CO
"ANA" Holter Museum of Art, all media competition, Helena, MT
Allied Arts Gallery, all media juried competition, Richland WA DIRECTOR’S AWARD
"Saturn Returns: Back to the Future of Fiber Art", San Jose Museum of Quilts &Textiles, San Jose,
CA
“Quilts: Fiber for Thought” Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
“Fiber National”, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
Missoula Art Museum, annual exhibition and auction, Missoula, MT
“The Artist and the Wolves” Ravalli County Museum, Hamilton, MT
2006
"Speaking in Cloth" exhibition, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon. six artists
Klein Gallery, U. of Pennsylvania Science Center, AQN/NY exhibition
"SDA Representatives", E. Carolina University, Greenville, NC American Art Co. Art quilt
invitational, Tacoma WA
Allied Arts Assn. ann. juried show, Richland WA
SAQA: The Creative Force: "Then" International Quilt Festival, Houston TX
NWDC Exhibition, Green River Community College, Auburn WA
Holter Museum auction and show, Helena, MT
NW Museum of Art and Culture, Ann. auction and show, Spokane WA
Museum of Craft and Folk Art, "Menagerie: Artists Look at Animals" San Francisco, CA
Translations Gallery, "Taking a Stand: Voices in Fiber" Denver CO
"Looking Forward, Glancing Back" final showing, Bellevue Arts Museum, Seattle WA
Prichard Gallery, U. of Idaho, previous exhibitors' auction and show, Moscow, ID
Confluence Gallery, NWDC exhibition, Twisp WA
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, "Quilts=Art=Quilts", Auburn, NY, BEST OF SHOW
"Taking a Stand: Voices in Fiber", Translations Gallery, Denver, CO
Missoula Art Museum auction and exhibition, Missoula, MT
Quilt National 07, Athens OH
2005
Gallery Blue, solo show, Missoula, MT
"Rooted in Tradition, Art Quilts from the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, RMQM, Golden CO,
quilt symposium in June
"Japanese Imagery in Contemporary Quilts" continuing in Japan, and Korea at Sookmyung
Woman's University Museum and Chojun Textile and Quilt Museum, Seoul, Korea
"Nude International 2005" Lexington Art League, Lexington KY third prize
NW Museum of Arts and Culture, 20th Ann. Exhibition, Spokane WA
"Studies from the Figure" Institute of Medicine and Humanities, St. Patrick Hospital, Missoula, MT
Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Art Quilt Network/New York, Hamilton OH
8th Contemporary Art Quilt Invitational, The American Art Co., Tacoma Wa
"Looking Forward, Glancing Back" NWDC show, continuinig , at the Oregon School of Arts and
Crafts and Bellevue Art Museum
Honolulu Arts Academy exhibition and auction, Honolulu, HI
2004
The Dahl Arts Center, invitational, Rapid City, SD
Whatcom Museum, "Looking Forward, Glancing Back", Bellingham WA, then to the Bellvue Art
Museum, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, and Wenatchee Art Museum
Penn State University, HUB Robeson Gallery, State College, PA
"Two Visions" Montana World Trade Center, North Palmerston, New Zealand
"Japanese Imagery in Contemporary Quilts" Kokusai Art, Tokyo, Japan. to tour Japan , Europe, and
the U. S. for three years.
10th Annual Contemporary Quilts Exhibition, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia PA
"Fiber Celebration 2004", Loveland Museum/Gallery, Loveland CO 3rd Prize
Jest Gallery, solo exhibition, Whitefish, MT
Art Mobil of Montana, traveling exhibition, schools of Montana
2003
"Threading the Eye", Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
"Nancy Erickson, Recent Work", Art Museum of Missoula, solo, Missoula, MT
"The Greatest Show on Earth", Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Quilt National 03, Athens Ohio Best of Show
Prichard Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID Invitational auction for previous exhibitors
"Works from the Heart", NW Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane WA
NWDesigner Craftsmen, Centro Cultural Costarricense Norteamericano, Cartago Costa Rica and
Museo Historicoo-Cultural Jose Figueras, San Ramon, Costa Rica
7th Ann. Contemporary Quilt Invitational, American Art Co., Tacoma WA
Contemporary Textile Purchase, Seattle Public Utilities 1% for Art Portable Collection, Key Tower
Gallery, Seattle WA
2002
The Metro Gallery, Narrative Fiber works, Denver, CO. C. Lehman, Coordinator.
NW Museum of Arts and Culture, "Works from the Heart" Spokane, WA
Prichard Art Gallery, 8th Invitational, University of Idaho, Moscow ID
Art Mobil of Montana continues to May 2003
"The Art of Healing" University of Montana Museum for Art and Culture, U. of Montana,
Missoula MT
"Poster Art", The Artists' Shop, Missoula MT
Allied Arts Juried Exhibition, Richland WA
U. S. Art in Embassies program, Rangoon, Burma for three years.
Gross McCleaf Gallery, 8th Ann. Contemporary Quilt Exhibition, Philadelphia PA
2001
"Relatively Speaking: Family as Image", Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Women's Show, Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, MT
"Figuratively Speaking", Sutton West Gallery, Missoula MT
"Tell Me a Story: Narrative Themes in Contemporary Fabric Arts", Cahoon Mus. of Amer. Art,
Cotuit MA
"Animal Dreams", South Dakota School of Mining and Technology, Rapid City SD
Art Quilt Exhibition, Connell Gallery, Atlanta GA
6th Annual NW Quilt Exhibition, American Art Co., Tacoma WA
7th Annual Art Quilt Exhibition, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia PA
25th Annual Show, Danforth Gallery, Livingston, MT
Art Mobile of Montana, tour, Sara Colburn, Dir., Dillon MT
"Material Essence", The Main Street Gallery, Cottonwood AZ
"Evidence of the Body", NWDC show at WA State Convention & Trade Ctr., Seattle, WA
"In Stitches" New England Quilt Museum, Lowell MA
Jest Gallery "Into the WILD'erness", Big Fork, MT
Prichard Art Gallery, 7th invitation exhibition, University of Idaho, Moscow ID
"Winter Showcase" Holter Museum of Art, Helena MT
2000
Art in Embassies, US State Dept., Niger .2000-2003
"Last Quarter 20th Century, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA
"The Montana Connection", Lower Columbia College Art Gallery, Longview WA
15th Annual Works from the Heart, Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane WA
Sutton West Gallery Women's Show, Missoula MT
The International Quilt Festival, and the European Quilt Expo VII, sponsored by International Quilt
Festival, Houston TX and Strasbourg, France
Art Quilts: America at the Millenium, Strasbourg, France
Contemporary Quilt Exhibition, Everett Public Library, Everett Public Library,
Everett WA
"Visual Intersections", Jest Gallery grand opening, Big Fork, MT
Art Quilt Invitational, Onda Gallery, Portland OR
The 25th Anniversary Collection Exhibition, Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula, MT
1999
"Visions: Quilt Expressions", Quilt San Diego, San Diego Historical Society, San Diego CA
Mansfield Art Center, Dishtowel Quilt Project, Mansfield OH
"Fifth Contemporary Quilt Exhibition", American Art Co, Tacoma, WA
"Last Quarter Twentieth Century", Norwich University, Northfield, VT
"Endangered Species", New England Quilt Museum,Lowell, MA
"New Art Quilt Show", Sweeny Center, Santa Fe ,NM
"Works from the Heart" Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane WA
"Bridles, Bits, and Beads", Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula, MT
" Montana Definitions," Meloy Gallery, U. of Montana, Missoula, MT
"National Crafts 1999", Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster PA
"Prichard Gallery Auction", University of Idaho , Moscow ID
"Art and Politics", Sutton West Gallery, Missoula MT
Onda Gallery, opening show, Portland OR
"Hanging by a Thread", Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff AZ
"Crafts National 33, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, U Park, PA
"Comments on the American 20th Century" Connell Gallery, Atlanta GA
"Edge to Edge", Heritage Plantation, Sandwich MA
"International Quilt Festival 25th Anniversary Invitational", Houston TX
"Connecting People with Places", Meloy Gallery, U. of Montana, Missoula, MT
NW Regional Drawing Exhibition, Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula MT
1998
"Muse of the Millennium", Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle WA
"Surface: New Form/New Function" Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Gatlinburg TN
"Ecofeminism Exhibition" University of Montana University Center Gallery, Missoula MT
"The Figure", Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, MT
"It Seams Funny to Me", Art quilts, American Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA plus
tour.
"Work from the Heart", Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA
"Figurative Fiber Exhibition" Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA
"Wild Things", solo exhibition , with K. Jubb, Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, MT
"Visions: Quilt Expressions", Quilt San Diego, San Diego Historical Society, San Diego CA
Museum of American Folk Art, "Edge to Edge: Selections from SAQA", New York, New York
"The American Quilt: From Craft to Fine Art", Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY
"Montana Craft", Hockaday Memorial Art Center, Kalispell, MT
1997
"Fiber Celebrated '97" Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO
"ANA", Holter Museum, Helena, MT
Quilt Montana, Hockaday Center for the Arts, Kalispell MT
Work from the Heart, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA
"Self Portraits", Danforth Gallery, Livingston, MT
Bumbershoot Invitational, NW Crafts Center & Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Hanging by a Thread", Northern Arizona University Art Museum Flagstaff, AZ
Best of Show, Allied Arts Gallery Annual Juried Show, Richland, WA
Quilt National 95, and "Diversity", on-going tours of the U. S.
"Montana: Myth and Reality", Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, MT
"Dwellings",American Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA
"Collection Fibers", Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula, MT
1996
Improvisations '96, The Gallery at Studio B, Lancaster OH
"Art in Embassies" Program, U. S. Dept. of State, Cape Verde Islands, 1996-1999
"Works of Heart", Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA
"The Art of the Quilt", Nabisco Gallery, East Hanover, NJ
"Vision/Revision: Fibers in Transition" Symposium and exhibition, Loveland, CO.
Sister City Art Exhibit, Neckargemund Museum, Neckargemund, Germany
"Hat, Glove, Shoe", NWDC exhibition, Washington State Convention Center,Seattle WA ; Ilwaco
WA
Bumbershoot, & Allied Arts Center, Richland WA
Allied Arts Mixed Media Exhibition, Silver Award, Richland, WA
1995
Maude Kerns Art Center, NW Studio Art Quilters, Eugene, Oregon
"Improvisations 1996", The Gallery at Studio B, Lancaster OH
Quilt National '95, Athens, Ohio; tour
NW Contemporary Quilts, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
Diversity! Art Quilt Exhibition, Arrowmont, TN and tour
Works of Heart, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA
Museum of the American Quilters' Society, Paducah, KY
"Celebrating the Stitch" closing exhibition, New Art Center, Newtonville MA
NWDC exhibitions: Ilwaco Heritage Foundation, Spokane, Port Angeles Center for the Arts, WA
Multi-Media Exhibition, Allied Arts Assn., Richland, WA Merit Award
"Textured Language", Blue Spiral 1, Fiberarts 20 year exhibition, Asheville NC
Studio Art Quilt Exhibition, American Quilt Showcase,Dollywood, Pigeon Forge, TN
1994
Quilt National 95, The Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH
Regional Fiber Arts Invitational, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
"Studio Quilts: A Memphis Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Quilts", Kurts Bingham
Gallery, Memphis, TN
Society for Contemporary Crafts, "Selections from the Permanent Collection: Then and Now", One
Mellon Bank Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, MT
Public Library Gallery, Sister City Program, Neckargemund, Germany
"Bountiful Bowls" Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, MT
"Works of Heart" Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA
"Quilts II: Green on the Red", Red River Revel Arts Festival, Shreveport, LA
"Eiteljorg Museum Invitational: Defining the West, Defining Ourselves", Indianapolis, IN
NASA exhibit, "Colors of Earth and Space", NASA research center, Moffet Field, Mountain View,
CA
Art Quilt International: Japan. through the Leone-Nii Quilt Gallery, CA
Janet Huston Gallery, NWDC Exhibition, La Conner, WA
Long Island Quilters' Society exhibition invitational, Freeport, Long Island, NY
"Celebrating the Stitch", tour continues in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan
1993
"Contemporary American Quilts", the Crafts Council Gallery, London, England. tour throughout
Great Britain 1993-1994.
"Screams with Laughter: Storytelling in North West Craft", Bumbershoot, Seattle, Washington
State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, and The Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver B.C.
Canada
"Contemporary International Quilters", Leone-Nii Gallery, Mountain View, CA
"Earth Vision" International Exchange Conference Exhibit: Sustainable
Development in
the Pacific Rim, Lewis-Clark Center for Arts & History, Lewiston, Idaho
New Wave Quilt Collections International II Brea, CA ; France
"Celebrating the Stitch" continuing in U. S., Canada, and Japan
"Montana Choice" Artists with Arts Fellowships, Hockaday Center for the Arts, Kalispell, MT
"Notes from a Wilderness Walk" Missoula Cultural Exchange, Missoula, MT
"Pictorial Quilts Exhibition", Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah. Book.
"Please Touch the Art" Missoula Museum of Art, Missoula, MT
Centennial Alumni Exhibition, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
"Bountiful Bowls" Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, MT
"Works of Heart" Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA
Community Visual Art Association, 6 Western Fiber Artists, Jackson Hole, WY
"Hearts and Hands" Pencil Points Co., Tokyo, Japan. tour Tokyo, Osaka, others, 1994
"Northwest Designer Craftsman" Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA
Soc. of Arts and Crafts, Newton (Boston) MA
1992-3
American Museum of Quilts and Textiles of San Jose, "A Celebration of Red", San Jose, CA
1992
" Fiber Spectrum 1992", Washington State Historical Museum, Tacoma, WA
" CUTBANK 38: The Visual Arts in Montana", Paxson Gallery, University of Montana, Missoula,
MT ; also tour with MAGDA
"Self-Portraits" , Danforth Gallery, Livingston , MT
"Contemporary Voices from the Plains", Iowa State University, Ames, IA
S. Segawa , New Wave Quilt Collections !!, book, exhibition ; tour in Japan
"Quilt Festival", 10 contemporary quilts from 10 Americans, Pencil Points Co., Inc., Tokyo, Japan;
touring exhibition
" Contemporary Quilts: Spirit of the Nineties" Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, Kalamazoo, MI ;
tour 1992-1993
Celebrating the Stitch: Contemporary Embroidery of North America The Society of Arts and
Crafts, Boston and Newton, MA
March 1992 (book & calendar) Also tour of Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and North America.
"Works of Heart" Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA
"Quilts: Out of the Mainstream", Red River Revel, Shreveport, LA
NWDC exhibitions in Washington
1991
"Human Shelter" Center for Tapestry Arts, New York City, NY
Electrum, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
Eleven Contemporary Quilters, Mellon Bank, The Society for Art in CraftsPittsburgh, PA
Quilt National '91, Athens, Ohio (+ book) tour to Japan, and to St. Louis (one piece of two)
NWDC exhibition, Janet Huston Gallery, LaConner, WA
"Works of Heart" Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA
Japan/American Art Quilt Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan (book: New Wave Quilt Collections 1); Opens
in Brea, CA ; tour of Japan through Fall 1991
"Surface and Structure: Concepts in Fiber", Blue Heron Center for the Arts, Vashon, WA
"The Sacred Bear: Two Worlds", Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana; Tour 19921993
"Living in the Margins: Class, Race, and Gender", NW Women's Studies Assn. Art exhibit,
Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1990
Northwest Designer Craftsman Exhibit, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
" Works of Heart, " Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA
"Fourth Invitational Nude Show", Castle Gallery, Billings, Montana
"Northwest Contemporary Fiber", Paris Gibson Square Center for Contemporary Arts, Great Falls,
Montana
"The Pushpin Invitational", Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana
NW JURIED PAINTING show, Barbara Ruane Memorial Award, Allied Art Association,
Richland, WA
1989
SDA/THE PERSONAL ICON, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
"10 Montana Artists", Artworks Gallery, Seattle, Washington
"Quilt National '89", Athens, Ohio
"Courthouse Quilt Conference Invitational'', Geneva, Illinois
MAC fellowship artists' show, Paris Gibson Square, Great Falls, Montana
Danforth Gallery invitational, Livingston, Montana
"Americana Enshrined", Great American Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
"Third Invitational Nude Show, Castle Gallery, Billings, Montana
Invitational Art Exposition of Montana Art in Mexico, State Museum in Oaxaca, Mexico
"Works of Heart", Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, Washington
" Montana `Women's Centennial Survey Art Exhibition," Custer County Art Center, Miles City,
Montana
"Montana '89" Arts Conference, Ryegate, Montana
"Layered, Pieced, Painted, Stitched: celebrating the Art Quilt " , Interwoven Designs Fiberart
Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
"FISH; AN EXHIBIT", Hockaday Center for the Arts, Kalispell, Montana
The Figurative Woman, Seastar Gallery, Big Fork, Montana
1988
"Quilts Not to Sleep With", Wilson Arts Center, Rochester, New York
"Quilts and Coverups", Louisville Art Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
"The Arts in Company" opening exhibition, Kalispell, Montana
"Art as Political Vision", The Brunswick Contemporary Art Center, Missoula, Montana
"The Manipulated Thread", Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana Merit Award
"2nd Invitational Nude Show", Castle Gallery, Billings, Montana
"Works of Heart" invitational auction, Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, Washington
Linda Hodges Gallery, group show, Seattle, Washington
"Self-portraits", Danforth Gallery, Livingston, Montana
Friends of the Helena Film Society Auction, Helena, Montana
"NW '88", Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
University of Montana Art Alumnae Exhibition, University of Montana, Missoula,Montana
Quilt Invitational, Art Guild of Old Forge, Old Forge, New York
Northwest Designer Craftsmen Exhibition, North Central Washington Museum,
Wenatchee, Washington
Designer Craftsman Show, Allied Arts Association, Richland, Washington, GoldAward
1987
"A Menagerie: Contemporary Animal Imagery", Skillbeck Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
"The Tie That Binds", Beall Park Art Center, Bozeman, Montana
"Fiber Structure National V", Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California
"Montana Landscape", Hockaday Center for the Arts, Kalispell, Montana
Invitational, Detroit Gallery of Contemporary Crafts, Detroit, Michigan
"Pieces of America: New Quilts", Gayle Willson Gallery, Southampton, New York
Northwest Designer Craftsmen Shows: Richland, Pacific Lutheran University, Chase Gallery, all in
Washington
"Fibers and Form/A Northwest Showcase", Seattle Center, Bumbershoot, Seattle, Washington
1986
"Western States Contemporary Craft", Utah Designer Craftsmen 25th Annual Exhibition
Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Northcutt Gallery, Eastern Montana College, Billings, Montana
"5th Annual Montana Women's Art Show", Black Orchid Gallery, Butte, Montana
"Traditions and Explorations: Women Artists of Missoula", Missoula Museum of the Arts
Missoula, Montana
NW Juried "86", Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, Washington
"Montana Draw", Hockaday Center for the Arts, Kalispell, Montana. Traveling show throughout
Montana.
"Surface Design NW", Seattle, Center, Seattle, Washington
"Montana Women's Show", Black Orchid Gallery, Butte, Montana
1985
Finalist: Western States Arts Foundation Competition Cohen Gallery, Denver, Colorado
"Fiber", Gallery Contemporary Craft, Tacoma, Washington
The Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
"Interiors", Hera Gallery, Wakefield, Rhode Island
"Beyond Patchwork: Quilts Grandma Never Made", Kansas City Artists' Coalition, Kansas City,
Kansas
"West of the Divide", Brunswick Gallery, Missoula, Montana
"Montana Quilts", Hockaday Center for the Arts, Missoula, Montana
"Fabrications", Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana
4th Annual Montana Women's Art Show", Black Orchid Gallery, Butte, Montana
"Nature...Inspiration for Quilts" Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin
"A Decade of Celebration", Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana
Denver Art Museum Contemporary Art Auction, "Another Great Love Affair", Denver, Colorado
1984
"Fine Contemporary Quilts", Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Stitchery: A Contemporary Art Form", Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington
Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
"Contemporary Quilters", North Hennepin Community College, Brooklyn Park, Minneapolis,
Minnesota
"Baskets/Quilts: Innovation in the Traditional Arts", The Detroit Gallery of Contemporary Crafts,
Detroit, Michigan
"Needle Expressions '84", Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina Traveling
show through November, l985. Best of Show Award
PAPER/FIBER VII The Arts Center, Iowa City, Iowa
SOLO/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS: 1984-2013
2013 Montana Museum of Art and Culture, “Kindred Spirits” Meloy Gallery, U. of
Montana, fabric works
2013 Montana Art and Framing Gallery, early work: sculptures, fabric constructions,
Missoula, MT
2010 Holter Museum of Art, fabric works, Jan. - May 2010 Helena, MT
2009 Montana Art and Framing Gallery, Missoula, MT fabric constructions
2008 Brunswick Gallery, Missoula, MT oil stick paintings
2005 Gallery Blue, Missoula MT fabric works
2004 The Jest Gallery, Whitefish, MT paintings
2003 Missoula Art Museum, solo exhibition, Oct. - Dec. Missoula, Montana, 55
paintings, drawings and fabric works
2000 San Francisco Mus. of Mod. Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco CA (paintings)
San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA (fabric)
1999 Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe NM
1998 Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, MT
1997 Penelope Loucas Gallery, Tacoma, WA
1996
Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, MT
1995
"Women in the West", Danforth Gallery, Livingston, MT
1993
Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, MT
Prichard Gallery, Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Bebe Kezar Gallery, Whitefish, MT
1991
Montana Gallery, Arlington, Virginia
Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, MT
1990
Solo exhibition, Holter Museum, Helena, Montana
Juror's solo exhibition, Artfest, Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA
Clark Fork Gallery, Missoula, Montana
1989
Solo exhibition, Paxson Gallery, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana.
Interwoven Designs Fiberart Gallery , Exhibition, St. Louis, Missouri .
Montana Arts Council Fellowship Artists, 5 solo exhibitions, Hockaday Center for
the Arts, Kalispell, Montana
19881987
Oakville Galleries, Centennial, Oakville, Ontario, Canada: "More Than Human"
solo exhibition.
1988
Tour of show in Canada:
Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener
Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg
Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby
Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie
Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury
1985
Castle Gallery, Billings, Montana
Black Orchid Gallery, Butte, Montana
The Seastar Gallery, Big Fork, Montana
1984
White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach, Oregon
PUBLICATIONS: 1985-2012
2009 Contemporary American Quilt Art: Sources and Synergy, Sandra Sider, University of
Nebraska Press
American Quilts: The Democratic Art 1780 - 2007, Robert Shaw, published by Sterling
Publishing Co., Inc., 387 Park Avenue South, New York NY 10016
2007 Good Company: The Collector and the Artist, Kathleen M. Lenkowsky, Indiana ,
601North Morton St., Bloomington IN 467404-3797
2006 Speaking in Cloth, book for show opening at Coos Bay Museum, Coos Bay Oregon
Women's Voices for the Earth" flyer images, pub. in 2005 and mailed internationally
2005 Rooted in Tradition, Art Quilts from the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, edited by
JT Trager and HK Row, The Donning Co. Publishers, 2005
Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter, by Kati Pasquini Masopust and Brett
Barker, published by C & T Publishing, Inc.
The Montanan, the magazine of the University of Montana, Fall 2005 "Nancy and Her
Wild Kingdom" by Megan McNamer; editor, Joan Melcher
2004 Artisan Northwest "Blanket Statements", by Bonnie Ayers Namkung, Fall 2004
Quilter's Newsletter Magazine ,"Five Decades of Unconventional Quilts" Robert
Shaw, November 2004 pages 54-57
FiberArts Design Book 7 edited by Susan Mowery Kieffer, Lark Books, Asheville,
NC
Japanese Imagery in 100 Quilts curated by Japan Handicraft Instructors' Association and
Kokosai Art, English edition by Carol Shankel, published by Kokusai Art, Minato-ku
Tokyo
2003 "The Art Quilt in 2003", Robert Shaw interview, FiberArts Vol. 30 #3, Nov/ Dec
2003 pages 37 -44
2002 "Material Essence" Surface Design Journal, Winter 2002 pages 52-5
4
"Nancy Erickson: Linked to the Narrative Tradition" American Craft June/July '02
pages 42-43. plus the COVER, "Hall of Memory #2: Trap Door"
2001 "Nancy Erickson and Sheila O'Hara: Between the Lines" FiberArts Mar/Apr 2001
2000 "Quilt Artists Review the 20th Century", FiberArts Sept/Oct 2000, page 56
1999 The Quilters' Handbook, Rosemary Wilkinson Publishing, 38 Halton Road , London
N1 2EU, (Hall of Memory #8)
Fiberarts Design Book Six, Altamont Books, Inc., Asheville NC
"Figurative Fiber" Surface Design Journal pages 48-49/Summer 1999
1998 "Zeitgenossische Quiltkunst im Wirkungskreis Nordamerika" International
Textilkunst: Informationen fur Kreatives Gestalten, 26. Jahrg. November
1998, Heft 4, pages 187 - 9, by Joachim Blank
1997 Imagery on Fabric: Surface Design Handbook, Chapter 11, Drawing and Painting.
Jean Ray Laury
The Art Quilt, Robert Shaw, pub. by Hugh Lauter Levin Assoc., Inc., Southport,
CT 06490
Applique Style Juliet Bawden, published by Cassell,Wellington House, London
WC2R0BB
"Textured Narratives: Nancy Erickson and Dana Boussard", Art/Quilt
Magazine Issue #7/1996-7, page 41
1995
FiberArts Design Book Five, Altamont Press, Inc., Asheville, NC
Quilt National 95 book
Quilts Today by Robert Shaw, pub. Hugh Lauter Levin Assoc., Inc., Southport CT
Cover of Loss is the Great Lesson, by Jennifer Flynn, Merriam Award winner,
University of Montana 1994.
1994
New Art of the West, The Fourth Eiteljorg Museum Invitational, Indianapolis, IN
Celebrating the Stitch, organized and edited by Asahi Shimbun, Produced by
Inshosha, Published by Asahi Shimbun, printed in Japan, 1994
1993
Camas: An Environmental Journal, 1993-1994, c/o EVST, University of
Montana, Missoula, MT. photos of paintings and fabric works
ArtsRag, Vol. 2, No. 5, June 1993. Romalyn Tilghman, Publisher, Long Beach CA
SURFACE DESIGNER'S ART, September 1993, Altamont Press. Photos and
essay.
Pictorial Quilts, by Wendy Lavitt , Gibbs-Smith publishing
Hearts and Hands, Vol. 2, 1993, "A Celebration of the Heart Motif in American
Folk Art", Office Cornichon, Tokyo. (Japanese book, in Japanese)
1992
CUTBANK 38, artists' special issue Summer1992
CUTBANK 37, cover and interior drawings, U. of Montana English Dept., Pub.
ASUM, Missoula, MT 59812
The International Contemporary Quilt Art Exhibition,, edited by Takashi
Teraoka, published by APT International Inc.
New Wave Quilt Collections II, by Setsuko Segawa, published by Mitsumura
Suiko Shoin Co., Ltd.
1991
Fiberarts Design Book Four , Lark Books, Altamont Press, Inc., Asheville, NC
New Wave Quilt Book by Setsuko Segawa; pub. by Mitsumura Suiko Shoin
Co.,Ltd.
Celebrating the Stitch: Contemporary Embroidery of North America, by Barbara
Lee Smith , Taunton Press Calendar, Celebrating the Stitch, November 1991
Taunton Press
Quilt National '91 book
1989
FiberArts, Sept/Oct "Four Embroiderers: Small and Large Scale," pp.45-48, by
Barbara Lee Smith
1987
Surface Design Journal, Spring, "After the Fall: The New Domesticity in the
Works of Nancy Erickson", by Julie F. Codell
Fiber Arts Design Book III, edited by Kate Matthews, Lark Books
1985
FiberArts, July/August, "Letters"
FiberArts, March/April, "Needle Expressions '84"
1985
American Craft, February/March, "Beyond Tradition: The Art of the Studio
Quilt", by Michael James
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS;
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO
American Craft Museum, New York City, NY
Chester Fritz Memorial Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
Institute and Museum of Fantasy and Play, Princeton, NJ
Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, MT
Washington State Art in Public Places Program
Best Products, Inc., Richmond, VA
Holter Museum, Helena, MT
Skyloom Fibres, Denver, CO
Saint Patrick Hospital, Missoula, MT
Hyatt Hotel, Beavercreek, CO
Pencil Points Co., Tokyo, Japan
The Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA
The Blue Mountain Clinic, Missoula MT
The Children's Theater Collection, Missoula MT
The University of Montana Museum Collection, Missoula, MT
City of Seattle, Portable Art Collection (2002)
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. tour.