Artist Resume

Barbara Webster
1087 Caldwell Rd.
New Market, TN 37820
865-382-4701
email: barbara@starforestquilts.com
website: starforestquilts.com

2006-2012

Executive Director, Quilt Trails of Western North Carolina

 

2012 

Featured in Quilt Living magazine

 

2010

Private Commission - McQueen Young quilt

 

2006
Featured in Russian Quilting Magazine
Featured in May 2006 Southern Living
Public Art Installation: McCreesh House, Charlotte, North Carolina
Public Art Installation: Burnsville Town Center
Private Commission: Birthday quilt for Spinetto family

2005
2005 Exhibition: Piedmont Craft Show, Winston-Salem, NC
 Exhibition: Design Gallery, Burnsville, NC
 Featured in Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, November issue
 Exhibition: Grovewood Gallery, Asheville, NC, Goldenrod Series
 Exhibition: American Quilter’s Society Museum, Paducah, KY, Beet Greens
 Featured in American Quilter’s Society Magazine, Spring issue
 Exhibition - one woman show in feature gallery at Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, England
  featured teacher and guest lecturer
 Exhibition: Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC
 Exhibition: Gallery Eleven Eleven Sculpture Space, 1111 Pennsylvania Ave., Wash. DC
 Exhibition: NC Crafts Gallery, Carrboro
 Featured in Rapid River magazine, Asheville, NC
 Public Art Commission - McCreesh House, Charlotte, NC  two quilts for homeless men’s shelter
 Public Art Commission - Burnsville Town Center, Burnsville, NC  21’ wide quilt for lobby
 Public Art Commission Finalist - Sherwood Recreation Center, Washington, DC
 Private Commission - Texas Bluebonnets
 Private Commission - Appalachian Spring
 Featured on website of Corel.com
 Featured on website of Coats/Crafts UK
 Chosen for American Quilter’s Society Paducah Show, Mountain Mint and Spring in the
  Smokies

2004
Winner, Quilt 2004, Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, England Rhododendron in the Snow
 One woman show: NC Crafts Gallery, Carrboro, NC
 Chosen for Art Quilts at the Sedgwick Show, Blue Spruce Medallion
 Exhibition: New England Quilt Museum, Beet Greens
 Exhibition: Primedia Corporate Headquarters, The Chimneys, Great Smoky Mountains National
  Park and Cloudlight
 Exhibiton: Canadian Plowing Show, Grady’s Cows
 Exhibition: Gallery Eleven Eleven Sculpture Space, 1111 Pennsylvania Ave., Wash. DC
 Exhibition: Lincoln Center, Ft. Collins, CO
 Chosen for American Quilter’s Society Paducah Show, Wedding Quilt for Chris and Julia
 Chosen for National Quilting Association Show, The Chimneys, Great Smoky Mtns. National Park
 Chosen for American Quilter’s Society Nashville Show, Chicory
 Chosen for Pacific Northwest Quilt Show, Cloudlight
 Chosen for LBI Foundation of the Arts & Sciences digital photography show
 Winner third place, Asheville Quilt show, Pawley’s Island
 Designed quilts for Erlanger Group, New York for Quilt Market
 Designed fabric for Erlanger Group, New York
 Three private commissions
 Featured on CorelDraw Website
 Featured on Twisted Thread Website
 Featured on Coats & Clark Website
 Featured in Quilter’s Newsletter magazine, Dec. 2004
 Featured in New Morning Gallery, Asheville, NC

2003
Winner, First Place, Group Category, American Quilters Society Show, Paducah, KY: The
  Chimneys, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
 Winner, First Place, Cleveland Metroparks Quilt show: Blue Spruce Medallion
  Commission: Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland: Approaching Summer
     installed in October, 2003 on a concave wall in new Oncology wing.

 Merit Award for Innovation, Asheville Quilt Show: Wedding Quilt for Chris and Julia
 Exhibiton: Fiber Invitational at Blue Spiral I show in Asheville, March-April
 Featured in American Quilter’s Society Magazine
 Featured in 3 person show at Toe River Arts Council month of March
 Designed quilts for Erlanger Group of New York for Quilt Market in Houston
 Multiple quilts featured in show at Handworks Gallery in Acton, MA.
 Multiple quilts featured in show at Grovewood Gallery in Asheville, NC.
 Editorial reference to my work in Fiberarts Magazine, October, 2003
 Quilt featured in full color brochure used for advertising New Morning Gallery, Asheville, NC
 Private Commission
 New Morning Gallery, Biltmore Village, Asheville, NC - average 12 quilts displayed throughout
 the year

2002
Juried into the American Craft Council Baltimore wholesale show
 Featured on website of Bobbin magazine
 Exhibition:  Mint Museum of Craft and Design in Charlotte, NC, Beet Greens
 Exhibiton: Gallery 323 show in Madison, Wisconsin
 Beet Greens quilt juried into American Quilters Society Show in Paducah, KY
 Beet Greens quilt selected for Arts in Embassies program and was displayed in the US Em-
  bassy in Guatemala for two years
 Zinnia Queen quilt featured at NC Arboretum April - August
 Black Cohosh quilt featured at NC Arboretum Sept.-Dec.
 Chimneys quilt juried into International Quilt Show in Houston
 Featured in May 2002 LDB Interior Textiles magazine
 Featured in FiberArts Magazine (Nov/Dec of 2002)
 5 Private commissions
 New Morning Gallery

2001
Featured in Blue Ridge Country magazine (December issue)
 New Morning Gallery
 Juried into International Quilt and Textile show, Houston, TX
 3 quilts featured in full color brochure used for advertising New Morning Gallery
 4 Private Commissions
 Invited to be one of 5 initial exhibiting artists at
  Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Hendersonville, NC
 Listed in Craft Heritage Trails of Western North Carolina, published by Handmade in America
 Taught at John C. Campbell folk school
 Featured in Quilts Japan magazine, April/May 2001
 One of 5 featured artists at Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC
 Quilts featured at Boston travel convention
 Blue Ridge Parkway quilt featured (and sold) in auction for Conservation Trust for North
  Carolina’s Blue Ridge Parkway fundraising campaign

2000
Commission - 2 quilts for Biltmore Swim Club
 Seven private commissions
 Blue Spiral I show invitational
 Houston Quilt Market - gold lamé quilt based on Gustav Klimt painting featured
 Minnesota Quilt Market - 5 quilts featured
 80 quilts commissioned for Japanese customer
 New Morning Gallery
 Listed in Craft Heritage Trails of Western North Carolina, published by
 Handmade in America

Education: University of Tennessee, with Honors, Bachelor of Music, Major in Theory and Composition

Represented in Asheville by the New Morning Gallery
 

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