Deidre Adams — Resume
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Plane of Persistence, BFA Thesis show, Metropolitan State College of Denver Center for Visual Art, Denver, Colorado
2009 Featured artist, Walkway Gallery, Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, Colorado
2008 Deidre Adams: Passages, Translations Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2008 Spaces and Places: Explorations in Mixed Media Textiles, Art in Public Places Program, Aurora, Colorado
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Quilt Visions 2010: No Boundaries, Oceanside, California
2009 Sublime Surfaces, Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, Colorado
2009 Pushing the Surface, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, Ohio
2009 Mixed Media Fiber Art, The Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts
2008 12 Voices, Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, Michigan, and travelling
2008 Art Quilt Elements, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, Pennsylvania
2008 Distinctive Directions, Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, Nebraska
2008 Threadlines, Missouri State University Art & Design Gallery – awarded Best in Show by Juror Jason Pollen
2008 Quilt Visions 2008: Contemporary Expressions, Oceanside, California
2007 A Sense of Place, International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas
2007 Hanging by a Thread, Museum of the American Quilter’s Society, Paducah, Kentucky
2007 Fiber Directions, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
2007 Fiber R(E)volution, Translations Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2006 All Colorado Show, Curtis Arts & Humanities Center, Greenwood Village, Colorado
2006 Contemporary Elements: Colorado Artists Redefine Fiber Art, The Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado
2006 Transformations, Birmingham, England
2006 27th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona
2005 Quilt National ’05, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, Ohio
2005 Materials: Hard & Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, Texas
2005 Form not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie, New Albany, Indiana
2004 Altered Color, Afif Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2004 Quilt Visions 2004: Celebrating the Art of the Quilt, Oceanside, California
2004 Contemporary Directions in Fiber, Reed Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2004 Fine Focus, traveling exhibition, 2004-2005
2003 Elements, Loveland Museum, Loveland, Colorado; and Exhibits USA traveling show, 2005-2009
2003 Western Material: Front Range Contemporary Quilters, Metropolitan State College of Denver Center for Visual Art, Denver, Colorado
2001 State of the Craft: Contemporary Interpretations of Tradition, Museum of Early Trades & Crafts, Madison, New Jersey
Commissions
2007 Louisville Library, Louisville, Colorado: Between the Lines
2007 Lone Tree Library, Lone Tree, Colorado: Chronicles I, Chronicles II, Chronicles IV, Chronicles V, Chronicles VI, Chronicles VII
Installations & Collections
Ritz Carlton Highlands, Lake Tahoe: Iterations #2: Aquamarine, Horizon IV, Horizon XI
EnCana Corp., Denver, Colorado: Iterations #1
Kaiser Permanente Colorado: Stapleton, Highlands Ranch, Franklin, and Aurora locations:
Colorways I, II, III & IV; Common Boundaries I & II; Reverie I, IV & V
Kaiser Permanente Regional Headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia: Composition III
Quilts, Inc., Houston, Texas: Horizon VIII, Horizon IX & Horizon X
The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas: Passages V
Bibliography
2010 1000 Artisan Textiles by Sandra Salamony & Gina M. Brown, published by Quayside Publishing
2010 500 Art Quilts, juried by Karey Patterson Bresenhan, published by Lark Books
2009 Passages: Movements and Moments in Text and Theory, ed. Maeve Tynan, Maria Beville and Marita Ryan; published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Passages V – cover image
2009 Quilting Art by Spike Gillespie, published by Voyageur Press
2009 Machine Quilting Unlimited, Vol. XIV, No. 6, “In the Art Studio with Deidre Adams,” November 2009
2009 SAQA Journal v.19, no. 4, Fall 2009, “Featured Artist: Jo Fitsell” (author)
2008 Quilt Visions 2008: Contemporary Expressions, published by Visions Publications
2008 12 Voices: An in-depth look at 12 artists working in the quilt medium, published by Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc.
2007 SAQA Journal v.17, no.4, Fall 2007, “Living up to the Digital Deal” (author)
2006 Quilting Arts Magazine, issue 24, Winter 2006, profiled artist
2006 Uncommon Threads, DIY Network, episodes DUCT-155 “Scratching the Surface” and DUCT-122 “Changing the Face of Quilts”
2005 Quilt National 2005: The Best in Contemporary Quilts, published by Lark Books
2004 Quilt Visions 2004, published by Visions Publications
2002 Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, Issue #345 (v.33, No.7), “The Meetin’ Place” feature article, September 2002
Education
2010 BFA, emphasis in painting, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, Colorado
1997 AS, Graphic Design, Arapahoe Community College, Littleton, Colorado
1990 BS, Computer Information Systems & Management Science, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Gallery Representation
Translations Gallery, Denver, Colorado
Johnsons of Madrid, Madrid, New Mexico