KATE ANDERSON ARTS

 

EXHIBITIONS, selected

2007-10

Teapots: Object to Subject, (Curator: Leslie Ferrin, Ferrin Gallery, for Craft Alliance)
Traveling Exhibition (additional venues to be determined)
•California State University-Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA
•Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio
•Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
•Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
•Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, FL
•J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleriies, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
•Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, TX
•Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
•Forbes Gallery, New York, NY

2005-09

INTERTWINED: Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection
•Traveling Exhibition , catalogue/image
•New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
•Bellevue Museum of Art, Bellevue, WA
•Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
•Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
•Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
•Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

2009

Masters of Contemporary Basketry, Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA

2008

XTreme Baskets, Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

 

Beyond Basketry, Dairy Barn Cultural Art Center, Athens, OH catalgoue/ image

 

Sixth International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2007

Baskets as Architecture, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

 

Baskets – No Boundaries, Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2006

Material Difference, Chicago Cultural Center (Curator: Polly Ulrich, art critic)

 

Baskets: Beyond Structure, Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

 

S.O.F.A./New York, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York

 

POP, solo exhibition, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY

 

Selections from Biennial, Peters Valley Craft Center, Layton, NJ

 

Showcasing Grand Inspirations, Leader’s exhibit, Handweaver’s Guild of America, Convergence 2006, Grand Rapids, MI

 

Fifth International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2000-07

S.O.F.A./Chicago, Chicago, Il, Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia

2002-06

THE ARTFUL TEAPOT: 20th-Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection.
Traveling Exhibition, catalogue, image
•Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN
•Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
•Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
•Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
•Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
•Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
•The George R. Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Ontario
•Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
•COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, Napa, CA

2005

Fibre: A New World View, America’s Top Fibre Artists, National Craft Gallery of the Irish Craft Council, Kilkenny, Ireland

2001, 05

S.O.F.A./New York, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

2004

Kate Anderson, solo exhibition, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

 

Fiber Biennial 2004, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

 

Contemporary Teapots: Object as Subject, Craft Alliance, St. Louis (Curator: Leslie Ferrin, Ferrin Gallery)

2003

Planting, Potting and Pruning: Artists and the Cultivated Landscape, invited, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI

 

Generations/Transformations: American Fiber Art, American Textile History Museum, invited, Lowell, MA catalogue/image

2002-2003

International Miniature Sculpture Exhibition 2002 Exhibition Taiwan, presented by The Sculpture Association of Taiwan, invited. Traveling Exhibition, Taiwan
•National Museum of History Taipei
•Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts

2002

Treasure Trove, Vancouver Exhibition Centre, Textile Tides, Convergence 2002, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

 

Threads on the Edge: The Daphne Farago Art Collection, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

 

Survey Fiber 2002, Snyderman/Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

 

Contemporary Baskets, Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

 

Instructor’s Exhibit for the National Basketry Organization, LewAllen. Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

 

Once Upon A Time: Artists Examine Fairy Tales, Legends and Myth, Invited, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI

 

Woven Constructions, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO (Curator: Jane Sauer, artist)

2000-2001

Inventions & Constructions: New Baskets (Curator: Jane Sauer, artist)
Traveling Exhibition:
•Kentucky Art & Craft Gallery, Louisville, KY
•Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
•Charles A Wustum Museum of the Arts, Racine, WI
•Society for Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
•Florida Craftsmen, Inc., St. Petersburg, FL

2000

Surface-Strength-Structure: Pertaining to Line, Snyderman/Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (Curator: Bruce Hoffman, Gallery Director)

 

The Practiced Hand: Constructions & Sculptural Fiber, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN (Selection Committee: Susan Visser, Director, and Leisa Rundquist, Curator, South Bend Regional Museum of Art; Karen Carlson, Director, Textile Arts Centre, Chicago; Julie Moore, Director of Exhibitions, Indianapolis Art Center), catalogue/image

1999

'99 Cups, invited, Mesa Arts Center-Galeria Mesa, Mesa, AZ

 

S.O.F.A./Chicago, Chicago, IL, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

 

The Teapot Redefined, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

 

Contemporary Baskets '99, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA catalogue/image

 

Social Fiber: Untangling the Message, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA (Curator: Gail M. Brown, independent curator)

 

Baskets and Beyond, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO

 

S.O.F.A./New York City, New York (Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA)

 

Focus on Fiber, R. Duane Reed Gallery, Chicago, IL

1998

Fiber 98, Textile Arts Centre, juried exhibition, Chicago, IL (Juror: Gillian Moss Curatorial Chair and Curator of Textiles, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York)

 

Fifth Annual 101 Cups, Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

 

Modus Operandi: A Survey of Contemporary Fiber, Snyderman/Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA (Curator: Bruce Hoffman)

 

S.O.F.A./Chicago, Chicago, IL, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

 

Artifacts and Archetypes, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

 

Contemporary Baskets '98, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA catalogue/image

 

Fabricated from Flax, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, invitational , Portland, OR

 

6th Annual Teapot Exhibition, Craft Alliance, St. Louis (Curator: Susan Bostwick, artist)

 

Contemporary Religious Fiber Art, presented by Friends of Fiber Art International, SOFA/New York (Juror: Jane Adlin, 20th Century Art Dept., The Metropolitan Museum of Art), New York, NY

 

Muse of the Millennium, Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, WA (Juror: Lloyd Herman, founding director Renwick Gallery-Smithsonian Institution) catalogue/image

 

Woven Forms: Contemporary American Basketry, invitational exhibition, Haydon Gallery, Nebraska Art Association, Lincoln, NE catalogue/image

1997

SOFA/Chicago Exposition, Chicago, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

 

The Teapot Redefined, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

 

New Baskets: Expanding The Concept, invitational exhibition, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO (Curator: Jane Sauer, artist)

BOOKS AND PERIODICALS, selected

Schuster, Joseph M. “Knotty Girl”, Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion, June/July 2007. photos

Staff. Modernism Magazine, “South”, Summer 2006. photo

Kieffer, Susan. 500 Baskets, Lark Books, Juror: Jan Peters, del Mano Gallery, Fall, 2006. photo

Wallace, Kevin. Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, “Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection”, Spring, 2006. photo

Staff. Stopress, Crafts Council of Ireland, Sept/Oct 2005. photo

Wallace, Kevin. Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, “Expanding the Language of Art”, Summer, 2004. photo

Wallace, Kevin. Craft Arts International, “A Milestone for SOFA CHICAGO”, Issue 60, 2004.

Brophy, Sarah. Surface Design Journal, “In Review: Generations/Transformations”, Winter, ’04.

Malarcher, Patricia. Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, Supplement: Catalogue, Generations/Transformation: American Fiber Art, Spring 2003. photo

Harris, Patricia and Lyon, David. Surface Design Journal, “In Review: Threads on the Edge: The Daphne Farago Fiber Art Collection, Museum of Fine Arts”, Summer, 2003. photo

Brophy, Sarah. The Beat, “Generations/Transformations: American Fiber Art at Lowell’s American Textile History Museum, June, 2003.

Leister, Brooke. MetroWest Daily News, Arts and Lifestyle, “Common threads: New exhibit chronicles the fiber art movement”, May 22, 2003.

McQuaid, Cate. Boston Globe, “’Fiber’” exhibit weaves together generation”, May 9, 2003. photo Patterson, Sunita. Fiberarts, “Generations/Transformations”, Summer 2003. photo

Staff. L’Officiel-de la couture et de la mode de Paris: Russian Edition, April. photo

Staff. Museums Boston, Volume 7 Number 1, Spring/Summer 2003. photo

Cruz, Manny. ANTIQUE & Collectibles, Collector’s Spotlight, “The teapot as a work of art”, Feb. 2003 photo

Patterson, Sunita. Fiberarts, “Daphne Farago’s Fiber Collection”, Nov/Dec 2002. photo

Temin, Christine. The Boston Globe, Living/Arts, “At home with Daphne Farago”, Sept. 12, 2002.

Sardar Zahid. San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, “Teapot Madness”, Sunday, June 9, 2002. photo

Silberman, Vanessa. Art Business News, “Contemporary Teapots Throw Their Own Party in the Art Market”, March, 2002. photo

Clark, Garth and Cunha, Tony (photographer). The Artful Teapot, Watson-Guptill Publications, 2001. photo

Staff. American Craft Magazine, Portfolio feature, Oct/Nov 2001. photo

Auer, James. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Wustum exhibit has artists give their take on happily every after”, Summer, 2001.

Pulleyn, Rob. Fiberarts, “It’s How Much?!”, Summer 2001. photo

Schwartz, Sara. St. Louis Homes & Lifestyles, “What’s Up”, June-July 2001, photo

Ferrin, Leslie. Teapots Transformed: Exploration of an Object, Guild Publishing, 2000. photo

Leier, Ray and Peters, Jan and Wallace, Kevin. Baskets: Tradition and Beyond, Guild Publishing, 2000. photo

Sonnenberg, Rhonda. Fiberarts, "Conference Reveals Creativity in the Raw", Sep/Oct, 2000.

Sonnenbeg, Rhonda. Fiberarts, "Getting Into Galleries - A Practical Guide", Sep/Oct, 2000. photo

Fabbri, Anne R. Philadelphia Daily News, "Exhibits in bloom for April", April 7, 2000. photo

Rice, Robin. Philadelphia City Paper, "A Thread Runs Through It", April 6-13, 2000.

Staff. American Style, Datebook, Spring 2000. photo

Marger, Mary Ann. St. Petersburg Times Weekend, "Crafts and more crafts in St. Petersburg", March 10, 2000. photo

Vanesian, Kathleen. Java Monthly, "Seasoned Greetings", Nov. 1999.

Staff. American Craft, Gallery (South Bend Regional Museum of Art), October/November, 1999. photo

Carlock, Marty. "Social Fiber: Unraveling the Messages", Art New England, Oct/Nov 1999.

Silver, Joanne. "Exhibit captures fabric of life", Boston Herald, July 16, 1999.

Sudduth, Billie Ruth. Baskets: A Book for Makers and Collectors, Hand Books Press, 1999. photo

Rice. Robin. "Modus Operandi: A Survey of Contemporary Art", American Craft, Feb/Mar, 1999. photo

Scarborough, Jessica. "Agriculture: Artistry in One Exhibition", Fiberarts, Swatches, Jan/Feb, 1999.

Indyke, Dottie. "Cup Scout", The New Mexican: Pasatiempo, Nov. 6-12, 1998. photo

Andre, Mila. "Show of 3-D art's an Object Lesson", New York Daily News, Now listings: Museo Drive, April 10, 1998. photo

Kangas, Matthew. "Fiber art show: beauty in the weave", The Seattle Times, Visual Arts, March 29, 1998.

Westphal, Caroline. "Elements: Coffee Talk", St. Louis Homes & Lifestyles, March, 1998. photo

MacMillan, Kyle. "Haydon Show Unravels Traditional Idea of Baskets", Nebraska World-Herald, Feb. 8, 1998.

Castro, Jan Garden. "Expanding Textile Concepts", Sculpture Magazine, Jan. 1998. photo

Degener, Patricia. "All Woven Together: Month-long fiber arts shows connect man and nature", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 5, 1997.

Staff. "Expanding Current Concepts in Textiles', American Style, Style Spotlight, Fall, 1997. photo

Hertenstein, Barbara. "Fiber Art Exhibits Fill City", St. Louis Post Dispatch, September 18, 1997. photo

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS, selected

2008

Workshop/Seminar Leader: Convergence 2008, Tampa, FL

2007

Workshop/Seminar Leader: Midwest Weaver’s Conference, Dana College, Blair, NE

2006

Workshop/Seminar Leader: Convergence 2006, Grand Rapids, MI, sponsored by Handweavers Guild of America (HGA)

 

Workshop Leader, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO

2005

Lecturer: Missouri Fine Arts Academy, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO

 

Workshop Leader: Missouri Weaver’s Guild, St. Louis, MO

 

Lecturer: “Living an Artist’s Life”, Women in the Arts 2005, University of Missouri

2004

Seminar Leader: Convergence 2004, Denver, CO, sponsored by HGA

 

Panelist: “Outside the Studio: Presenting Tapestry within a Broader Field”, sponsored by American Tapestry Alliance’s Critical Forum, Denver, CO

 

Workshop Leader, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO

2003

Workshop Leader, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO

 

Lecturer: Missouri Fine Arts Academy, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield

 

Workshop Leader, Panelist: American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA

2002

Workshop/Seminar Leader: Textile Tides, Convergence 2002, Vancouver, BC, Canada, sponsored by Handweavers Guild of America

2001

Panelist: Gallery-Artist Relationships, sponsored by Tyler Alumni Association, Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

2000

Workshop Leader, Panel Moderator: "Inventions & Constructions: Concepts and Materials", Florida Craftsmen Conference 2000, St. Petersburg, Fl.

1999

Lecture: "Five Voices From the Fiber World", Kate Anderson, Candace Kling, Michael James, Barbara Lee Smith, and Jon Eric Riis, sponsored by Friends of Fiber Arts International, S.O.F.A./Chicago, Chicago, IL

CURATOR / JUROR / PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, selected

2007

Co-Chair: Gala Benefit “Metal Mania” at the Moto Museum for Craft Alliance , St. Louis

 

Curator: “Mysteries Contained: Contemporary Basketry Sculpture”, Craft Alliance, St. Louis

2006

Juror: Young at Art/ Young Artists Showcase- St. Louis Artist’s Guild, MO

2005

Curator: “In the Narrative: Textiles Object/Word”, Center of Creative Arts, St. Louis

 

Curator: “Material Content: Basketry Sculpture in the 21st Century”, Craft Alliance

2004

Author: Commentary: “Art as the very fiber of our souls”, Arts Impact, St. Louis Business Journal, Feb. 13-19, 2004 photo

2003

Juror: Regional High School Art Competition, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

2002

Contributor: James Renwick Alliance 20th Anniversary Benefit Auction, Live Auction

 

Contributor: CERF (Craft Emergency Relief Fund), 25 artists-miniature collection for auction at SOFA/New York

2001

Juror: "5th Annual Contemporary Indian Art Show", Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site Gallery, Collinsville, IL

 

Contributor: James Renwick Alliance 19th Anniversary Benefit Auction

2000

Juror: "14th Annual Student Art Competition", sponsored by The League for Innovation, a consortium of 20 premier community colleges and districts from U.S.A. and Canada, hosted by St. Louis Community College, MO

 

Juror: "5th Annual Women In Business Honoring Women In Art", sponsor: St. Louis Chapter of National Association of Women Business Owners

 

Juror: "The Thirteenth Annual Midwest Salute to the Masters", Fairview Heights, IL

1999

Curator : "The Millennium Show: Looking Forward, Looking Back", Center of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO

 

Lecturer: "Teapots, Cups and Conversation", Symposium: What Is a City?

 

Constructing Local Cultures, The Center for the Humanities, UM-St. Louis

1998

ENVISION Co-Sponsor with St. Louis Art Museum - Lecture and reception for Dr. Norman Girardot, "Divine Marginality: Angels and Artists as Outsiders"

 

Co-Curator, Exhibition Designer, and Installer: "Magic Houses, Joyful Gardens" (over 100 folk art objects), The Center of Contemporary Arts, St. Louis

1997

Co-Juror: 47th Annual Art Competition, Fort Smith Art Center, Fort Smith, AK

1996-97

President and founder: ENVISION: Folk, Visionary, and Outsider Art, St. Louis, MO

1995

Lecturer: "The Collaborative Process" - Ethical Society of St. Louis

1994

Lecturer: "The Collaborative Process" - School of the Art Institute of Chicago

 

Co-Juror: "MOAK", Four State Regional Exhibition, Springfield Art Museum, MO

1993

Juror & Juror's Lecture: "Collaborative Process”, Student Commencement Exhibition, Greenville College, Greenville, IL

 

Juror: "Mail In Art Show", Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO

 

Gallery Lecture: University Museum, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL

 

Gallery Lecture: Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO

EDUCATION

1996

Knotting course with Jane Sauer, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO

1982

BFA, Painting, Webster University, St. Louis, MO