News: Upcoming Events and a Little History
Posted:
February 15, 2021
What:
Selawik National Wildlife Refuge posted my new quilt
Selawik Sheefish on their
Facebook page, one of the new pieces sponsored by the Rasmusson Foundation. Click on the thumbnail to see the entire quilt and
HERE to learn more about the plight of the Selawik Sheefish.
Selawik Sheefish, August 2020, 56"h x 65”w
What:
Received the American Heritage Women in the Arts Recognition Award. This award is made by the National Society Daughters Of The American Revoulutiion to women who have made significant achievements at the community, state and national level in their artistic field, Fiber Arts-Quilting.
When:
May 22, 2022 UPCOMING
Where:
Bear Gallery in Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport Way, Fairbanks, Alaska
What:
ITOC Boreal Forest Series, The Alaska-based arts-humanities-science consortium
In a Time of Change (ITOC) is embarking on the next project cycle culminating in a group exhibit and book entitled
In a
Time of Change: Boreal Forest Stories. The transdisciplinary exhibit will feature multiple artists and humanists working
in a variety of media, following regular interactions with scientists, to produce original works that communicate narratives
rooted in the boreal forest, including its ecology, its inhabitants, and their interactions.
For more information on ITOC click Here
When:
January 22 - April 17, 2021
Where:
Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI
What:
What do you get when you set nine composers loose in Denali National Park? You
get nine great pieces of music! Give this music to artists as inspiration and you get eighteen great pieces of art! In
conjunction with the A-Space Gallery exhibit,
"DENALI: Artists Respond To Music Inspired By Wilderness", participants of
Composing in the Wilderness, a shared wilderness experience for adventurous composers and members of the Elements Artist
Group will discuss the collaboration, share performances of the music and images of artwork in a virtual music and art
experience.
For more on this event click HERE
To enjoy the Composing in the Wilderness and Elements collaboration click HERE
What:
Rasmuson Foundation named Ree Nancarrow as
one of 36 Individual Artist Awards recipients. Ree has been telling complex stories with
her art for years. Her goal is to create a series of large art quilts that interpret a
variety of the impacts from climate change in a new and very personal way.
For more on the Rasmuson Foundation recipients click HERE
What:
My works featured in a publication
Where:
July/August of Artists Magazine, Artists In The Parks by Cynthia Close, pages 48-55. One of four artists showcased who participated in National Park's Artist-In-Residence programs.
When:
September 6-29, 2019
Where:
Conoco Phillips Gallery, Grant Hall, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, AK
What:
REE NANCARROW : New Work is a solo show featuring 20 new fabric quilts not shown previously in Anchorage. To see the quilts, click
HERE.
Willow Ptarmigan, 24"h x 28.5"w
Where:
International Gallery of
Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK
What:
Birds On The Edge: Dynamic Boundaries featured contemporary images of avian species by selected
artists, by invitation only. It was held in conjunction with the 137th annual
meeting of the American Ornithological Society to highlight the birds in Alaska
that are living 'on the edge' of sustainability, due to ecological boundaries
that have been shifting rapidly, dynamically, and often unpredictably. For more
information about my quilt "Habitat Loss, Plumage Mismatch" and how it was constructed, click
HERE.
Habitat Loss, Plumage Mismatch, 69"h x 117.5"w
Posted:
September 20, 2016
When:
October 2 thru December 30, 2016
What:
The Nature Of Place is a collaborative
exhibition with Charlotte Bird--our perceptions of Denali National Park--click
HERE for more information about my
featured quilts, as well as our joint quilt "Hare and Gone Again".
Hare And Gone Again (69"h x 117.5"w)
What:
My works featured in a publication
Where:
March, 2013 issue of Science Magazine, New Section. Evolving Landscapes Through Artists' Eyes on page 1132.
What:
A Sense Of Place II: Artists Working In Series is an invitational show currated by Peggy Keeney. This traveling show, sponsored by SAQA, starting in Minneapolis at the Textile Museum and ending in Long Beach, will include three of my quilts: "Glacial Rivers", "Mountains And Willows", and "Mountains In Summer"
What:
"Mountains In Summer" took second place in the Interior Artisans juried show at the Bear Gallery, Fairbanks
What:
My works featured in recent publications
Where:
1000 Artisan Quilts by Sandra Salamony and Gina M. Brown, to be published in May, includes my quilt "Mountains With Willows"
Where:
500 Art Quilts by Ray Hemachandra and Karey Bresenhan was published in March, featuring "Polychrome"
What:
I jurored the Patterns Of Influence multi-media show at the Bear Gallery, Fairbanks
When:
February 19 - March 13, 2010
What:
"Summer Rain" and "River With Poppies" were featured in the Mark This show by the Alaska Surface Design Association, Anchorage
What:
These same two quilts were then quickly transferred to the Alaska Member Show of the Surface Design Association at the Alaska Fiber Festival in Anchorage, March 13-14
When:
November & December, 2009
What:
"Two Drainages" and "Blueberry Patch" were included in the
Women Only show at the
Alaska House Gallery, Fairbanks
What:
"Glacial Rivers" won Second Place in the 24th Annual
64th Parallel juried contemporary fine art show sponsored by the Fairbanks Arts Association. Seattle quilt artist
Eric Eley, juror
