Alice Beasley: Quilt Artist: Resumé

SOLO EXHIBITS

· Thirteen Moons Gallery of Contemporary Art Quilts, Santa Fe, NM, March 31 C April 26, 2000.

· Artist's Exhibit, The Shorenstein Building, 45 Fremont St., San Francisco, CA, June 10, 2000 to August 12, 2000.

· AirTouch Corporate Gallery, November, 1999 through January 2000.

· "Portrait Quilts: Memories, Dreams & Reflections" one-woman show at New Pieces Gallery, July 1-31, 1994, Berkeley CA.

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITS & TOURS

· "Sewing Comfort Out of Grief: The Oklahoma City Children's Memorial Art Quilts" - traveling throughout the United States from April 19, 1996 through 1999. Ms. Beasley is one of twenty quilters selected nationwide to exhibit a quilt dedicated to the children who died in the Oklahoma City bombing. Sponsored by the Helias Foundation for Art and Human Rights. Ms. Beasley's quilt, "Behind the Barricade" is featured in Issue No. 8 of Art Quilt Magazine.

· "Women of Taste: A Collaboration Celebrating Quilt Artists and Chefs" - traveling throughout the United States through October, 2000. Ms. Beasley's quilt "Bette's Diner" is one of 50 dynamic culinary quilts resulting from pairings between quilt artists and nationally known women chefs. This Exhibition is sponsored by Girls Incorporated of Alameda County and will tour under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.

· "Roots of Racism: Ignorance and Fear" - Vertigo Studios, 33 North Main St., Memphis TN, Sept. 8 through October 13, 2000. Fifty quilts dedicated to examining the complex fabric of race relations. The exhibit will travel throughout the United States and other countries for two years after its initial venue.

· "El Arte de Coser Arte" (The Art of Sewing Art) - Museum of the Americas, Madrid, Spain, October 23, 2003 through November 23, 2003.

· "Changing the World One Thread at a Time", Val d'Argent Expo, Ste. Marie aux Mines, Haut-Rhin, France, September 14- 17, 2006.

· "Textural Rhythms: Constructing the Jazz Tradition" - touring nationally from February, 2007 through 2010. Sixty four quilts presented by the Women of Color Quilters Network displaying the interplay between jazz and art. Venues include the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum, the New York State Museum and the Rutgers University Art Museum.

· "Roots" and "Love in Boom" were selected as part of the United States Department of State's Art in Embassies program for display at the Ambassador's residence, Windhoek, Namibia.

GROUP EXHIBITS

· "Fabrications: Quilts for the Next Century" - Plaza Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA. March 18- May 17, 1996.

· "Daughters of Harriet Powers" - Museum of African American Art, Tampa, FL, January 29 - March 29, 1997 and the Octagon Arts Center, Clearwater, FL, April 2 - May 31, 1997.

· "Go Figure" - San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, November 19, 1998 through January 17, 1999. Ms. Beasley's quilt, "The Three Graces" was exhibited.

· East Bay Municipal Utility District headquarters, group show, February, 1999.

· The Shorenstein Company, 45 Fremont St., San Francisco, CA 94105, June 10 - August 12, 2000.

· "A Communion of the Spirits: African-American Quilters, Preservers and their Stories" - Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. March 16 - September 3, 2001.

· "Fiber Arts 2001" - Gallery 510 Arts Guild, Ltd., 510 W. Decatur St., Decatur, Ill., Aug. 3 - Sept. 11, 2001. Recipient of the Juror's Choice Award and the Nova Gallery Award of Excellence.

· "Fiber Arts 2006" - Gallery 510 Arts Guild, Ltd., 143 E. Prairie St., Decatur, Ill., October 6 - 28, 2006.

· "Folks in Fiber" - Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA., March 28 - May 20, 2006

PUBLICATIONS

· Ms. Beasley's quilt "III Boyz" is featured in Fiberarts Design Book Six, 1999.

· "Behind the Barricade" is shown in Issue No. 8 of Art Quilt Magazine.

· "Bette's Diner" is featured in Women of Taste: A Collaboration Celebrating Quilt Artists and Chefs published by C&T Publishing, 1999.

· Ms. Beasley was featured in an article in the California Daily Journal, "East Bay Attorney/Quilter Finds Peace in Piecing", June 12, 2000.

· Featured on "Simply Quilts" on HGTV, January 13, 2003, Show #824

JURIED EXHIBITS

· American Museum of Quilts and Textiles, "New Faces", September 28 - November 13, 1993.

· Pacific International Quilt Festival II, October 1993

· Pacific International Quilt Festival III, October 1994

· Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, February 1994

· Pacific International Quilt Festival IV, October 1995

· Northern California Quilt Council Exhibit, October 1993

· Northern California Quilt Council Exhibit, October 1994

OTHER EXHIBITS

· East Bay Heritage Quilters, "Voices in Cloth" 1994 and 1998

· "Challenge" New Pieces Gallery, 1993, 1994

LECTURES

· East Bay Heritage Quilters Guild, March 27, 2000

· Oakland Museum, "Women's Work and How it Grew: A Symposium", April 15, 2000