Carol Anne Grotrian: Resume
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: Quils 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
Quilted Biographies, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2000 Beds & Walls: Art Quilts by Sarris & Grotrian, Cambridge Artists Coop, Cambridge, MA
1999 International Shibori Symposium Wearable Art Exhibit, Galeria Arte Actual, Santiago, Chile 
In Season: Landscape Quilts by Carol Anne Grotrian, Norumbega Point, Weston, MA 
1998 Breathing Spaces: Landscape Quilts by Carol Anne Grotrian, Gallery 57, Cambridge, MA
The Crit Group: Art Quilts by Becker, Crane, Crasco, Donabed, Einstein & Grotrian, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
Four Artists, More Quilts: Sylvia Einstein, Sara Gindel, Beatriz Grayson, Carol Anne Grotrian; University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Carol Anne Grotrian, Quilter/Barbara Willis, Weaver, Cabot Room, Symphony Hall, Boston, MA 
1997 Quiltscapes, Views and Visions: Barbara L. Crane, Jo Diggs, Carol Anne Grotrian, Susan K. Turbak; New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA
1996 Four Artists, Recent Quilts: Sylvia Einstein, Sara Gindel, Beatriz Grayson, Carol Anne Grotrian; University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Textile Voices: New Works by Sarah J. Gindel, Carol Anne Grotrian, Mary Chaisson, Sandra Donabed; Cragin Fife Gallery, Brookline, MA
1993 Carol Anne Grotrian & Michael Kline: Using Ancient Traditions to Create Contemporary Crafts,Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston, MA
Selected Juried and Invitational Exhibitions
  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 (from 1998)
  2003 January Thaw, Center for the Arts in Natick, Natick, MA
  2002 Quilts, Books, Etc., Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State College, Framingham, MA
Meditation, Center for the Arts in Natick, Natick, MA
2001 Quilt National, Athens, OH (tour to 2003)
Living Traditions: Contemporary American Quilts, Nederlands Textielmusem, Tilberg, The 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 the Arts, Damariscotta, ME
Seeing Yellow, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA 
1998 Beyond the Tradition: Art Quilts, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Gallery, Boston , MA 
1997 Quilt National, Athens, OH (national & international tour to January 2000)
1996 Indoor/Outdoor, Round Top Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, ME
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 & Private Commissions
  2005 Private, Pride’s Crossing, MA 2002 Private, Marlborough, MA; Private, Arlington, MA; Private, W. Stockbridge, MA 2001 NiSource Corporate Headquarters, Merrillville, IN; Matthew Esecson, Pride’s Crossing, MA; Private, Newport 2000 Private, Worcester, MA; Private, NY, NY & Auburndale, MA 1999 Private, Princeton, NJ; Integrated Development Enterprise Inc., Concord, MA 1998 Boston Ventures Management, Boston, MA (two quilts) 1996 Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA (Ob-Gyn Lobby) 1995 Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA (six quilts for Ob-Gyn & Oncology Lobbies) 1994 Deaconess Hospital, Boston, MA (two-story Radiology Lobby);Private, Columbus, NE (Willa Cather project) 1993 Private, Cambridge, MA (liturgical stole) 1990 Central Square Market, Cambridge, MA (100 foot Bazaar Installation) 1985 Private, Scottsdale, AZ (liturgical stole)
Corporate & Private Collections, Museum Collections

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

  Selected Publications, Bibliography
  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   2003Weaving New Rythms 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   Springtime in Paradise,Quilters Newsletter Magazine, April, 2000, 10
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.
News & Notes: Paradise City Crafts Festival, Home Magazine, March 30
"Moda Arte",Shibori: El Arte de Tenir com Amarra, III Simposio Internacional de Shibori, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
  1998   Belinda Filipski, Stamp Act, Boston Sunday Herald Home, 10-11
Cate McQuaid, Galleries (review), The Boston Globe, February 12 ,C3
  1997  

Contemporary Quilts: Quilt National 1997, Lark Books 
Exposure & Look What Happens, Surface Design Journal, Fall, 31, back cover
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 in Wood, Clay and Fiber, New York Sunday Times, December 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
 
 


 

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