I am an Art Quilter and instructor from rural Pennsylvania. I love creating with fabric, thread, inks, acrylics, and oils.

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

Year Venue, Location

2025 Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA
2024 Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA
2023 Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA
2023 Petrified Forest National Park, AZ
2022 Indiana Dunes National Park Porter, IN
2022 Homestead National Historical Park Beatrice, NE
2021 Fort Union National Monument Watrous, NM
2021 Stones River National Battlefield Park Murfreesboro, TN
2021 Shenandoah National Park Luray, VA
2019 Great Smoky Mountains National Park Gatlinburg, TN
2018 Manassas National Battlefield Park Manassas, VA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Year Venue, Location - “Quilt(s)”

2021 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Bedford, PA (November, 2020 to February, 2021) - 7 pieces, list available
2019 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Bedford, PA - 18 pieces, list available
2019 Theatre Shenandoah, Edinburg, VA - 10 pieces, list available

INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

Year Venue, Location - “Quilt(s)”

2026 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton, VA - “Threads of Nature,” Special Exhibit with Tina Freudenberger and Carol Monti
2025 Road to Virginia, Richmond, VA - “Threads of Nature” Special Exhibit with Tina Freudenberger and Carol Monti
2023 Chesterton Art Center, Chesterton, IN - “Don’t Fence Me In”
2022 MD Anderson Ovarian Cancer Center, Houston TX, Invitation Challenge for Online Fundraising Auction - “Out of the Woods”
2020 MD Anderson Ovarian Cancer Center, Houston TX, Invitational Challenge for Online Fundraising Auction - “Sunrise”
2020 NIH Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD - “Autumn Trail”
2017 HERStory: A Celebration of Strong Women, Susanne Miller Jones, Curator - “Flight” and “Amanda’s Story”

JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Year Venue, Location - “Quilt(s)”

2025 Art in Embassies, American Ambassador’s Residence, Panama City, Panama - “Lynn’s View on a Misty Morning”
2025 International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, Judged Show - “The Rose of Bon Secours”
2025 Women of Appalachia Project, The Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens, OH - “Cascade Falls, October Standoff II”
2024 Art in Embassies, American Ambassador’s Residence, Papua New Guinea - “Little Stony Creek”
2023 Women of Appalachia Project, The Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens, OH, Winner, Juror’s Choice - “Dark Hollow Falls”
2023 Biennial Exhibition, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Ligonier, PA, Winner, Best of Show - “Yosemite”
2022 International Quilt Festival, Houston TX, Special Exhibit, Tactile Architecture - “Fort Union Portals”
2022 International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, Special Exhibit, Landscapes - “Tennessee Autumn”
2022 International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, Judged Show - “Dark Hollow Falls”
2022 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton, VA - “Dark Hollow Falls”
2021 International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, Judged Show - “Yosemite”
2021 International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, Special Exhibit, Landscapes - “Water Dance: Oconaluftee”
2021 Mancuso Visuals 4 Spring Quilt Festival, Winner 2nd Place, Innovative Category - “Water Dance: Oconaluftee”
2021 Mancuso Visuals 3 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Winner 1st Place, Innovative Category - “Tennessee Autumn”
2019 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton, VA, Winner Best Machine Workmanship - “Ghost Soldier 1918”
2019 Sacred Threads and Sacred Threads Traveling Exhibit, Herndon, VA - “Ghost Soldier 1918”
2019 Library of Congress, Washington, DC - “Fly Me to the Moon”
2017 IQA International Quilt Festival, Houston TX, World of Beauty Judged - “Show Still Life with Bowl and Apple”
2017 Sacred Threads, Herndon, VA - “Peaceful Reflection”
2015 Sacred Threads and Sacred Threads Traveling Exhibit, Herndon, VA - “Descent into White Noise”

COMMISSIONS, DONATIONS, PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Year Collection - “Quilt(s)”

2023 Private Collector - “October Standoff”
2022 Private Collector - “Hawksbill Peak”
2022 Private Collector - “Yosemite II: Half Dome”
2022 Homestead National Historical Park, donation - “The Homestead”
2021 Fort Union National Monument, donation - “Fort Union Portals II”
2021 Stones River National Battlefield Park, donation - “Ghosts of Stones River”
2021 US Department of the Interior, Office of the Secretary Art Collection, donation, permanent collection - “Sunrise Shenandoah
2021 Shenandoah National Park, donation - “The Sentinel”
2021 Private Collector - “Skyland Sunset”
2020 INOVA Schar Cancer Center, Fairfax, VA, commission, permanent collection - “Autumn Trail 2”
2020 Private Collector, commission - “In the Manner of the Old Masters”
2019 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Bedford, PA, permanent collection - “Winter Creek”
2018 Manassas National Battlefield Park, donation, permanent collection - “Witness Tree”

TEACHING

Year Class, Venue, Location

2025 Introduction to Still Life, Zimmerman’s Bernina, New Enterprise, PA
2025 Free Motion Quilting for Beginners, Morgan Arts Council, Berkeley Springs, WV
2025 The Art of the Landscape Workshop Retreat, Bedford, PA
2025 The Art of the Landscape Workshop Retreat, Denver, PA
2025 The Art of the Landscape Workshop, Scrubgrass Quilters, Emlenton, PA
2025 Lecture and Workshop, The Art of the Landscape, Brandywine Quilt Guild, Media, PA
2025 Free Motion Quilting for Beginners, Artistic Artifacts, Alexandria, VA
2025 The Art of the Landscape, Artistic Artifacts, Alexandria, VA
2025 Painting a Quiltable Sky, Artistic Artifacts, Alexandria, VA
2025 Whole Cloth Design, Zimmerman’s Bernina, New Enterprise, PA
2025 Introduction to Still Life, Zimmerman’s Bernina, New Enterprise, PA
2025 The Art of the Landscape, Zimmerman’s Bernina, New Enterprise, PA (2 classes each quarter)
2023 The Art of the Landscape, lecture and workshop, TAVA, Blacksburg, VA
2022 The Art of the Landscape, lecture and workshop, Springfield Quilters Unlimited, Springfield, VA
2022 The Art of the Landscape, lecture Schoolhouse Quilters, Cumberland, MD
2021 Sewing Water Textile Artists of Virginia, Harrisonburg, VA
2021 The Art of the Landscape Zimmerman’s Bernina, New Enterprise, PA
2021 Free Motion Quilting Zimmerman’s Bernina, New Enterprise, PA
2019 Free Motion Quilting Zimmerman’s Bernina, New Enterprise, PA
2019 Free Motion Quilting Traditions at the White Swan, Hagerstown, MD
2019 Art Journaling for young people Job Corps, Cherokee, TN
2018 The Art of the Landscape Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Bedford, PA

PUBLICATIONS

Backyard Escape, CQS Press 2020, p. 70
Sacred Threads Exhibition 2019, CQS Press 2019, p. 195
OURStory, Human Rights Stories in Fabric, Schiffer Publishing 2018, p. 13, 36-37, 182-184
Fly Me to the Moon, Schiffer Publishing 2017, p. 33, 56, 148
HERStory, A Celebration of Strong Women, Schiffer Publishing 2017
Sacred Threads Exhibition 2017, CQS Press 2017, p. 271
Sacred Threads Exhibition 2015, CQS Press 2015, p. 223