Solo & Small Group Exhibitions

2006 Stitched/Unstitched, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA

2005 Taipei County Indigo Festival (exhibition, symposium, workshop), Taiwan

2004 Cut of Different Cloth, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA

Thinking Big, Working Small, Cambridge Artists Cooperative, Cambridge, MA

2003 Carol Anne Grotrian: Quits with a View, Yamawaki Art Center, Lasell College, Newton, MA

In Plein Air: Landscape Quilts by Carol Anne Grotrian, Dana Hall Art Gallery, Wellesley, MA

Places from Pieces: Quilts by Carol Anne Grotrian, Vermont Quilt Festival, Northfield, VT

2001 The Crit Group, NiskArt Gallery, Niskayuna, NY

2000 Beds & Walls: Art Quilts by Sarris & Grotrian, Cambridge Artists Cooperative, Cambridge, MA

1999 International Shibori Symposium Wearable Art Exhibit, Galeria Arte Actual, Santiago, Chile

1998 Breathing Spaces: Landscape Quilts by Carol Anne Grotrian, Gallery 57, Cambridge, MA

The Crit Group, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

Carol Anne Grotrian, Quilter/Barbara Willis, Weaver, Cabot Room, Symphony Hall, Boston, MA

1997 Four Artists, Recent Quilts, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA

1996 Four Artists, Recent Quilts, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA

Textile Voices: New Work, Cragin Fife Gallery, Brookline, MA

1993 Carol Anne Grotrian & Michael Kline: Ancient Traditions Create Contemporary Crafts, Society

of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA

 

Selected Juried & Invitational Exhibitions

2011 Creative Collectivity, A Quilter's Gathering, Nashua, NH

Art Quilts Lowell: The Sea, Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA

One Passion, Many Voices: MA-RI Surface Design Assoc., Artworks!, New Bedford, MA

No Holds Barred, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA

Quilters Connection Show & Sale (annual since 1990)

2010 Cream of the Cloth: Marbaum Collection, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA

2008 Shibori Cut Loose, Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN

The Marbaum Collection, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH

2007 Contempoary MAsters, The New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA

2006 Quilt Visions: The Art Quilt, Oceanside Museum, San Diego, CA

2005 The Best of SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Assoc.), International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX

2004 Paradise City Arts & Crafts Festival, Northampton and Marlborough, MA

2003 January Thaw, Center for the Arts in Natick, Natick, MA

2002 Quilts, Books, Etc., Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State College, Framingham, MA

2001 Quilt National, Athens, OH (tour to 2003)

Living Traditions: Contemporary American Quilts, Nederlands Textielmusem, Tilberg, Netherlands

2000 Mood Indigo: Contemporary Quilts, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA

Blue, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA

1999 Last Quarter Twentieth Century, Vermont Quilt Festival, Northfield, VT and Round Top Center for

Arts, Damariscotta, ME

1998 Beyond the Tradition: Art Quilts, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Gallery, Boston

1997 Quilt National, Athens, OH (national & international tour to January 2000)

1996 Tresors de Soie, Musee de Tissue, Lyon, France

1995 Small Quilt Art, Killian Gallery, Sharon Art Center, Peterborough, NH

1994 New England Seen, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA

1993 Celebrating the Season, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA

1992 Quilts Now, Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY (invitational)

1991 Skyworks Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA (national tour to 1993)

Fabric of Life, Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston, MA (invitational)

Intimate Perspectives, Artists Foundation Gallery, Boston, MA

1990 Visions: A New Decade, Museum of San Diego, San Diego, CA

Quilts=Arts=Quilts, Schweinfurth Museum, Auburn, NY

1986 Great American Quilt Festival, New York, NY (Juror's Choice)

Vermont Quilt Festival, Northfield, VT (Best Theme/Small Quilts)

 

Corporate Commissions: NiSource Corporate Headquarters, Merrillville, IN; Integrated Development Enterprise Inc., Concord, MA; Boston Ventures Management, Boston, MA (two quilts); Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA (8 quilts: Ob-Gyn Lobby, Oncology Lobby, Radiology Lobby), Boston, MA; Central Square Market, Cambridge, MA (100 foot Bazaar Installation)

Private Commissions: Scottsdale, AZ (liturgical stole); Arlington, Cambridge (liturgical stole); Marlborough, Pride’s Crossing, W. Stockbridge, Worcester, MA; Columbus, NE (Willa Cather project); NY, NY ( & Auburndale, MA); Princeton, NJ

 

Corporate & Museum Collections

Museum: Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA; New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA Corporate: Cambridge Savings Bank, Cambridge, MA; Peabody & Brown, Boston, MA; Ropes & Gray, Boston, MA; Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA; Deaconess Hospital, Boston, MA

Private Collections: Scottsdale, AZ; Redwood City, CA; Windsor, CT; Andover, Boston, Belmont,
Brookline, Cambridge, Groton, Holliston, Lexington, Needham, Newton, Rehoboth, Sherburne, Stoughton,
Sudbury, Wellesley, Westboro, West Roxbury, and Weston, MA; Falmouth, ME; Verona, NJ; Brooklyn and
Manhattan, NY; Athens, OH; Barrington, RI

 

 

Selected Publications, Bibliography

2010 500 Art Quilts, ed. Ray Hemachandra, Lark Books, Ashville, SC

2009 "Have Your Ever Been Approached to Do a Commission," SAQA Journal, Summer 5-11

2008 "Highlighted Artist: Carol Anne Grotrian," SAQA Journal, Fall 20-22

2005 Eleanor Levie, American Quiltmaking 1970-2000, Paducah, KY

Robert Shaw, Art Quilts: A Celebration, Lark Books, Asheville, NC

2004 QNM Quilt Show, Quilters Newsletter Magazine, May 2004, 58-59

2003 "Recontre avec Carol Anne Grotrian," Quiltmania: Le Magazine du Patchwork , Sep/Oct, 6-9

2002 Weaving New Rythms 2003 Diary, Rubicon Publishing, Canada

2001 "Breathing Spaces," Quilts are Forever (Kathy Lamancusa, ed.), Primedia Inc., 35-37

The Best Contemporary Quilts: Quilt National 2001, Athens, OH

2000 Christine Temin, Crafts at the Castle: Innovation, The Boston Globe, November 30, H1, H7

1999 Quilters Guide to Color and Fabrics, Rodale's Successful Quilting Library, VIII

Fiber Arts Design Book VI, Lark Books

"Moda Arte", Shibori: El Arte de Tenir com Amarra, III Simposio Internacional de Shibori, Museo

Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile

1998 Cate McQuaid, Galleries (review), The Boston Globe, February 12 ,C3

1997 Contemporary Quilts: Quilt National 1997, Lark Books

Here and There: Exhibitions on Posters and Quilts, The New York Times, February 20, C12

1996 Nicole Bishop, Quilting's Cutting Edge , Cambridge Chronicle, August 15, L1

1995 Robert Shaw (ed.), Quilts: A Living Tradition, Hugh Leuter Leven Associates, NY; 140-141

1994 Carol Anne Grotrian, "Spacious Skies," Threads Magazine, July, 67-67

Bess Liebenson, "An Inspired Dialogue, Wood, Clay and Fiber", New York Sunday Times, Dec. 4, 29

1993 Steve Cheseborogh," For Heavens Sake", The Phoenix Gazette, December 17, 1, 7

1992 Verena Rybicki, "Shadows of the Orient," Quilting International, July, 54-55, 60-1

Nancy Crasco, "Growing Through a Critique Group", American Quilter, Fall, 14-19

1991 Fiber Arts Design Book IV, Lark Books

Christine Temins, "Turning Fiber into a Multitude of Art Forms", Boston Globe, March 1, 69

Quilt Art Engagement Calendar 1991, American Quilters Society, Paducah, KY

1990 Deborah Bird Timbry (ed.), Visions: Quilts of a New Decade, San Diego, CA, 48

1987 Duke & Harding (eds.), America's Glorious Quilts, Hugh Leuter Leven Associates, NY; 210

1986 Bishop & Houck, All Flags Flying: American Patriotic Quilts as Expressions of Liberty, NY; 73

 

Education

Washington University, St. Louis, MO; Fine Arts 1964-67

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; B.A., 1974; Graduate School (Art History), 1974-76