SELECTED LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS PRESENTED

LECTURES:

Art Quilts of the 21st Century; International Quilt Festival; Houston, TX 2006
Lecture on My Work; Peters Valley Craft Center; Layton, NJ 2002, 2005
Lecture on My Work; Allentown Art Museum Textile Club; Allentown PA 2005
Contemporary American Fiberart: Universidad del Azuay and Universidad de Cuenca; Cuenca, Ecuador 2004
The Art of Contemporary Quiltmaking; Reading, PA Public Museum 2004
Contemporary Needlework: Not Your Grandmother's Sampler; Fiberart Guild of Pittsburgh, PA 2003
Invitational Lectures for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council's Speakers Program:
Contradicting Tradition: Contemporary Art Quilts; presented at: Erie Art Museum 2003, Chester Library 2003 and Newport Arts Council 2002
Not Just Pretty Pictures: Today's Needlearts; presented at: Lebanon Library, 2003 and Allentown Art Museum 2002
Humor in the Fiber Arts; Convergence 98 Weavers Conference; Atlanta, GA
Guest Lecturer on Contemporary American Crafts; 1997:
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design; Birmingham, England
Glasgow School of Art; Glasgow, Scotland
A Serious But Irreverent View of Contemporary Art; Reading Public Museum; Reading, PA 1995

WORKSHOPS:

Mixed Media Textile Surfaces; Kutztown University, Kutztown PA 2007
Textile Collage; Peters Valley Craft Center; Layton, NJ 2005
Knotless Net Forms; Universidad del Azuay; Cuenca, Ecuador 2004
Non-Traditional Needlework; Erie Art Museum; Erie, PA 2003
Non-Traditional Needlework; Fiberart Guild of Pittsburgh, PA 2003
Needlework: Basics and Beyond; Peters Valley Craft Center; Layton, NJ 2002
Ideas: Creating New Ones by Unblocking the Ordinary, at Convergence 98 Weavers Conference; Atlanta, GA
Non-Traditional Needlework; Reading Public Museum; Reading, PA 1994