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About Me
- Bonnie Jo
- BIO: My life started out on a different path. I was to attend college and be a Home Economics Teacher. Well with a couple of years of college at Indiana University and no money on the horizon I worked a pretty boring job taking a class here and there and also doing Theater design and stage production in my free time; which I found fascinating, but at that time in history I didn't really see where that might take me. Now move the clock forward thirty years. After a huge life changing injury I started sewing again as a source of inner therapy I embarked into the world of quilts. How it evolved into art quilts came by way of a new home. I had huge walls that needed to be filled so I created contemporary quilts, which really seemed to fill a space in my being. Now after much exploration in the world of fiber art, I find myself creating abstract art pieces and taking my work to a professional level and finally finding myself back where I started years ago. I now feel the need to catch up, I have been exhibiting locally and internationally. The dreams of several installation projects will happen I know, if I just keep fiber on the walls and taking one step at a time.
Scholarships and Grants
Publications
- San Mateo Times Newspaper, Jan. 22, 2010
- 500 Art Quilts by Lark Publishing, 2010
- NICHE Magazine, Winter 2010
- SAQA - Portfolio 16, 2010
- FiberARTS Magazine, Summer 2009
- SAQA Journal, Spring 2009
- Tri-City Voice Newspaper, Ca. March 18, 2009
- NICHE Magazine, Spring 2009
- Haute Handbags-Spring Issue 2009-Stampington Co.
- SAQA-PORTFOLIO 15
- NICHE Magazine, Winter 2009
- Surface Design Magazine Winter-2009
- New Art International, Book Art Press 2009
- Artlines-Women's Caucus For Art, Winter 2008
- SAQA Journal Vol. 18, No.4 Fall Issue, Reviewed by Bruce Hoffman
- San Mateo County Times, October 31, 2008
- Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. Journal Vol. 18 No. 3 Summer 2008
- SAQA: Art Meets Science, Birmingham, England; traveling thru 2011
- VSA arts Festival, Washington D. C.
- United Nations NGO Conference 2009, Mexico City, Mexico
- Plymouth Community Arts Council, Plymouth, MI
- "Transitions" Community Gallery, Redwood City, California
- The Journey of Hope in America:Quilts Inspired by President Barack Obama, National Afro-American Museum & and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, OH
- Coastal Art League's Members Show, Half Moon Bay, Ca.
- ABSTRACTS & IMAGES, Artist Solo Show, 1870 Art Center Gallery, Belmont, Ca.
- 2009
- GaulSearson Ltd., "Fall into Fabrics", San Francisco Design Center
- "Eye of the Beholder", International Quilt Festival, Houston
- Caoastal Art Leagues 25th Annual Juried Show, Dec. 3- 29, 2009
- "Simple Pleasures", WCA~Pen Chapter, Half Moon Bay, Ca.
- SBAWCA-Perspective, Purpose & Passion, Art Object Gallery, San Jose, Ca.
- National SWAN DAY, Alameda Art Works, San Jose, Ca.
- Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont Ca. March 6 - April 18, 2009
- Transformations 2008, Coos Art Museum, Oregon
- "Members Show", Coastal Art League; Half-Moon Bay, California
- "Bernice Seymore Award", 24 Annual Juried Show, Coastal Arts League, Curated by Jerry Emanuel
- The Alliance For America Quilt interview cataloged in The Library Of Congress
- Coastal Art League 24th Annual Juried Show - Half Moon Bay, Calfornia
- 2009 NICHE AWARD Finalist, Philadelphia Buyers Mart, Philadelphia, Pa.
- 2008
- "Allusions", Penninsula Women's Caucus For Art, Avenue 25 Gallery,San Mateo, Ca.
- "With One Voice" 2008 Breaking Traditions Art Quilt Exhibit, curated by Lynn Krawczyk traveling thru 2009
- "2008 World Quilt Festival" Shanghai, China
- "Found Work" at Alyis N' Rose, Santa Clara, California; One Woman Show
- Museum of Americas Quilt Society, Paducah, Kentucky
- "Artist Of The Month", Womens Caucus For Art National Web Site Month of July
- "On The Edge", Penninsula Women's Caucus For Art, Coastal Arts League, 300 Main Street, Half Moon Bay, Ca.
- "Inner Landscapes", South Bay Area Women's Caucus For Art, Martin Luther King Jr. Library, San Jose, Ca.
- "Grounds For Change", The Lofts Gallery, San Pedro, Ca.
- "The Ninth Quilt Nihon Exhibition", Tokyo, Japan This exhibition will be traveling Asia and United States thru 2009.
- "Art Quilt Elements", Wayne Art Center, Wayne, Pennsylvania
- "Mother", Gregory Kate Gallery, San Jose, Ca.
- "Transformations 2008", Festival of Quilts, Birmingham England This exhibition will travel thru Europe and The United States thru early 2010.
- 2007
- "Lower Town Quilt Walk" - Paducah, Kentucky
- "Santa Cruz Art League's 3rd Annual Fiber Art Exhibit, Santa Cruz, California
- "Count Down To Peace" Mendenhall Gallery - East Carolina University, N.C. This exhibition will be traveling thru out the USA indefinetly.
- "Art Quilt Markings", Page-Walker Art & History Museum - Cary, North Carolina
- "Mind + Body", The 14th Intrnational Surface Design Conference - Kansa City, Mo. This exhibit will tour for three years at selected venues.
- "Road To California", Ontario, California
- 2006
- "Wish You Were Here", Fiber Art Postcards Exhibition - Tohono Chul Park, Tuson, Arizona
- "California Art Quilts", California Heritage Museum - Santa Monica, Ca.
- "Santa Cruz Art League's 2nd Annual Fiber Art Exhibit, "Recipients Award", Santa Cruz, Ca.
- "Small Works II", Ayers Lofts Gallery - Lowell, Massachusetts
- "National Small Art Quilt Works Exhibition", The Main Street Gallery - Groton, New York
- "Its Not a Deli Art Gallery", Talisman Studio - Toronto, Canada
- "Quilts A World Of Beauty", IQA, Houston, Texas
- Transformations '08, curretly at The Coos Art Museum in Coos, Oregon
2 comments:
Congratulations, Bonnie! This is wonderful! Wish I could come and see your solo show! Hurray! Susan
Can't Waite!!!!!!! It is going to be SO GREAT!!!!!! I am very excited:)
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