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Solo Exhibitions

2010

Plane of Persistence, BFA Thesis show, Metropolitan State College of Denver Center for Visual Art, Denver, Colorado

2009

Featured artist, Lincoln Center Gallery, Ft. 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

2012

Taiwan International Quilt Exhibition 2012, Taichung Municipal City Huludun Cultural Center, Taichung City, Taiwan

2012

SAQA Showcase, International Quilt Study Center & Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2011

Quilt National ’11, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, Ohio

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 and Crafts, Madison, New Jersey

Commissions

2011

Anythink Bennett, Bennett, Colorado: Horizon XVIII: Plainsong

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

Metropolitan State College of Denver (Colo.) Hospitality Learning Center: Reliably Uncertain & Mining Chaos

Terrance Carroll, Greenberg Traurig, former Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives: All the Answers

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

PEI, Boulder, Colorado: Cerescape No. 3

University of Nebraska, International Quilt Study Center & Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska

The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas: Passages V

Bibliography

2011

Patchwork Professional – Das Magazin für Fortgeschrittene & Profis, “Abstrakte Mixed Media Kunst von Deidre Adams,” Jan. 2011

2010

Quilt Visions 2010: No Boundaries, published by Visions Publications

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