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Education1992 M.F.A. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
GalleriesSFMOMA Artists Gallery, Fort Mason Bldg. A., San Francisco, CAQuicksilver Mine Co. Gallery, Forestville, CA
Solo, Two, and Three-Person Exhibitions2010 2008 2006 2002 1997 BEST AGRICULTURAL THEME, California State Fair 1996 1995 1992 1989 1984
Awards2001 1998
Group Exhibitions2011 2010 WEAD (Women Environmental Artists Directory) Exhibition, JFK University, Berkeley, CA ART QUILT ELEMENTS, Gross McLeaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2009 ART BIENNIAL 2009, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA SEEING GREEN, Visions of a Changing Planet, Visions Art Quilt Gallery, San Diego, CA WEATHER REPORT, mixed media juried exhibition, Petaluma Arts Center, Petaluma, CA 75th Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, a juried competition for CA artists, Tsakapoulos Library Galleria Balcony, Sacramento, CA 2008 VISUAL SYSTEMS, International Quilt Study Center & Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE ART QUILT ELEMENTS, Re: View, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA THE STATE OF THE ART QUILT, New West Coast Design, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA 2007 ART BIENNIAL 2007, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA QUILT NATIONAL ’07, Athens, OH & Traveling Show 2006 TAKING A STAND, Voices in Fiber, Translations Gallery, Denver, CO CREATIVE FORCE, International Q Market, Houston, TX TEXTILE EXPRESSIONS, THE ART QUILT, Santa Barbara Historical Museum, Santa Barbara, CA 2005 LAYERS OF MEANING, The Art Quilt 2005, Contemporary Crafts Museum & Gallery, Portland, OR QUILT NATIONAL '05, Athens, OH & Traveling Show ARROWMONT FACULTY SHOW, Arrowmont School of Arts, Gatlinburg, TN 2004 SPECIAL INTERESTS: THE ART OF POLITICS, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA BAY AREA FINE CRAFT, Black, White, Grey, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA QUILT VISIONS 2004, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia , PA CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES, MOCA, Santa Rosa, CA MENDOCINO HUMOR, Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA EXPLORATIONS, Quilt Surface Design International traveling show, Ohio Craft Museum, Mansfield Art Center, Southern Ohio Art Museum 2003 EXPLORATIONS, Quilt Surface Design International traveling show, Wesserling Textile Museum, Mulhouse, France FABRIC CONSTRUCTIONS, Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO QUILT NATIONAL '03, Athens, Ohio & Traveling Show INSPIRED OBJECTS, Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA INNOVATIONS IN FIBERART, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA THIRTY Distinguished Quilt Artists of the World, Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan 2002 VISIONS, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA INSTRUCTORS' SHOW, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA ART QUILTS at the Sedgwick, Philadelphia , PA GROSS MCCLEAF GALLERY, Philadelphia , PA 2001 PARALLEL THREADS - New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA MATERIAL ESSENCE - Main Street Gallery, Cottonwood, AZ TACTILE MATTERS - A Street Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA FABRICATIONS - Mendocino College Art Gallery, Ukiah, CA 2000 QUILT 21-AMERICAN ART QUILTS FOR THE 21st CENTURY, The Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER; Contemporary Quilts by Californians, Turtle Bay, Redding Museum of Art & History, Redding ART QUILTS: AMERICA AT THE MILLENNIUM - Quilt Expo, Strasbourg, France CROSSOVER QUILTS, Artists who use quiltmaking in their work, Pennsylvania School of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA 1999 QUILT NATIONAL '99, Athens, Ohio & Traveling Show EDGE TO EDGE: Selections from Studio Art Quilt Associates, Museum of American Folk Art at Heritage Plantation, Cape Cod, MA 1998 THE AMERICAN QUILT, From Craft to Fine Art, Roberts Wesleyan College, New York ARROWMONT Faculty Show, Gatlinburg, TN 1997 PARALLEL PATHS, SEPARATE VISIONS, 4-Person Show, Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA THE FABRIC OF LIFE, 150 Years of Northern California Fiber Art History, San Francisco State University A&I Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1996 CONTEMPORARY QUILTS FROM THE JAMES COLLECTION, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY VISIONS, Quilt Art, San Diego Museum of History, San Diego, CA 1995 FIBERART INTERNATIONAL '95, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA QUILT NATIONAL '95, Athens, Ohio & Traveling Show THE FULL DECK, Renwick Gallery & Traveling Show, Washington, D.C SOFT PROTESTS, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA FANTASTIC FIBERS, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY 1994 VISIONS - Layers of Excellence, San Diego Museum of History, San Diego, CA ART QUILT INTERNATIONAL 94, Mountain View Civic Center, Mountain View, CA NEW DIRECTIONS, Quilts for the 21st Century, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA 1993 A SHOW OF HANDS, Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA California Contemporary Craft, Media: Fiber, Corte Madera, CA QUILT NATIONAL '93, Athens, Ohio & Traveling Show SMALL WORKS, Gallery at Studio B, Lancaster, OH The Wetsman Collection, QUILT AS A NEW ART FORM 3, Birmingham, MI 1992 ON THE SURFACE, American Museum of Quilts & Textiles, 3-Person Show, San Jose, CA The Kentucky Quilt Project, Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY 1991 ORIGINALS, Auburn Arts Center Auburn, CA QUILT NATIONAL '91, Athens, Ohio & Traveling Show The Society for Art in Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA 1990 THE EDGE OF BEAUTY, San Jose State University, Convergence '90, San Jose, CA VISIONS, Quilts of a New Decade, San Diego, CA 1989 CRAFT TODAY U.S.A, American Craft Museum Traveling Show, Europe: Frankfurt, Warsaw, Lausanne, Moscow, Ankara, Oslo, Ghent, Berlin, Athens, Bratislava, Leipzig, Barcelona, Lisbon, USIA Agency Arts America Program QUILT NATIONAL '89, Athens, Ohio, Traveling to St. Louis, MO, Anchorage, AK and Japan THE QUILT AS ART, The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1988 LAWRENCE GALLERY, Gleneden Beach, Oregon 1987 GAYLE WILLSON GALLERY, Southampton, New York QUILT NATIONAL '87 - Athens, Ohio & Traveling Show Museum of Arts & Sciences, Macon, Georgia 1986 SYNTEX GALLERY, Five Artists Quilts, Palo Alto, CA 1985 EXPO '85, April 1985, East Meadow, New York THE CONTEMPORARY QUILT, Japan 1984 SCHOOL OF DESIGN, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Monographs and Exhibition CatalogsLinda MacDonald: Stories from the North Woods, catalog of her one-person show at Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA, written by Patricia Watts, 2010 Seeing the Forest and the Trees: The Art of Linda MacDonald, by Dot Brovarney, Mendocino Arts Magazine, Summer 2010 Interview by The Alliance for the American Quilt: Quilters’ S.O.S. (Save our Stories Project), Tape #CA94121-002, www.quiltalliance.org Artist Profile, Linda MacDonald, by Cate Coulacos Prato, Quilting Arts Magazine/Interweave Press, Aug/Sept 2008 Linda MacDonald, Cover Artist, by Jeri Jo Adarius, Sojourn Magazine, Ukiah, CA Fall 1997 Linda MacDonald: The Evolution of an Artist’s Imagery, by Candace Crockett, Surface Design Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3
PUBLISHED IN: (Selected Listings)Pioneering Quilt Artists, 1960-1980, A New Direction in American Art, by Sandra Sider, 2010 Masters: Art Quilts, Volume 2, Lark Books, 2010 Artists of Inland Mendocino County, CA, 2009, edited by Ree Slocum Surface Design Magazine, Fall 2005 Quilt VISIONS 2004, Celebrating the Art of the Quilt, Quilt San Diego/Quilt Visions Quilt National '03, Lark Books & The Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, 2003 Quilt VISIONS 2002, A Visions Publication, 2002 Quilt National '01, Lark Books & The Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, 2001 American Art Quilts: Quilt 21/2000, catalog, Quilt 21 Press, Lowell, MA 2000 American Craft Magazine, Page 87, Gallery section, Aug/Sept 98 Catalog, The 5th Quilt Nihon Exhibition '98, International Quilt Contest The Art Quilt, Robert Shaw, Hugh Lauter Levin Assoc., Inc. 1997 Imagery on Fabric, Jean Ray Laury, C&T Pub. page 73, 1997 Surface Design Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3. QUILTS, A Living Tradition, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc. 1995 Fiberarts Design Book Five, Lark Books, 1995 Contemporary Designs In Fabric, Quilt National '95, Lark Books Fiberarts Magazine, Mar/Apr, 1995 Art Quilts: Playing With A Full Deck, Sue Pierce, Verna Suit, Pomegranate Art Books, San Francisco, CA, 1995 88 Leaders In The Quilt World Today, Nihon Vogue, Upon Publication,1995 The Art Quilt Magazine, Lynn Lewis Young, Issue 2, 1995 VISIONS, Layers Of Excellence, Quilt San Diego, 1994 Contemporary American Quilts, Craft Council, London, England, 1993 Where, St. Louis, Statements In Stitches, page 6, Oct. '93 American Craft Magazine, Fiber Gallery, page 77, April/May '93 Surface Design Association News, Volume 6 No. 2, Spring 1993 American Craft Magazine, Portfolio Section, Dec. '91-Jan. '92 Fiberarts Design Book Four, Lark Pub., 1991 The New Quilt 1, The Taunton Press, 1991 America's Quilts, Publications international Ltd., 1990 Geometry, (a textbook), McDougal, Littell & Co., 1990 VISIONS, Quilts of a New Decade, C&T Publishing, 1990 The Contemporary Quilt 1990. A Calendar, Pomegranate Press Yesterday & Tomorrow: California Women Artists, by Sylvia Moore, Midmarch Arts,1989 New Quilts: Interpretations & Innovations, QN '89, Schiffer Pub. Co., 1989 The Fine Art of Quilting, Vicki Barker & Tessa Bird, E.P. Dutton, N.Y., 1988 The Quilt Digest 5, Quilt Digest Press, San Francisco, CA 1987 Fiber Expressions - The Contemporary Quilt, Quilt Nat'l 1987, Schiffer Press The Complete Book of Quiltmaking, by Michele Walker, Knopf 1986 Beyond Tradition, The Art of the Studio Quilt, American Craft Magazine, Feb/Mar 1985, by Michael James The Quilt Digest 3, Quilt Digest Press, San Francisco, CA 1985 The Fiberarts Design Book II, A Fiberarts/Lark Book, 1983 The Quiltmaker's Art: Contemporary Quilts and Their Makers, Lark Communications & Fiberarts, 1982 The New American Quilt, A Fiberarts/Lark Book, 1981 Quilting, Patchwork & Applique, A Sunset Book, 1981
Teaching/Lecturing (Selected Listings)Panelist/Speaker, SAQA/SDA, Reinvention, San Francisco State University, March 2010 San Francisco State University, Lecturer, Spring and Fall Semesters, 2005, 2003, 1994 Teacher, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, August, 2005, also 1998, 1995 Keynote Speaker, SAQA Conference, Oceanside, CA Nov. 2002 Japan Handicrafts Instructors' Association,Tokyo & Osaka, Sept. 2002 Mendocino Art Center, workshop, 2002, 1994, 1993, 1991, 1988, 1983 Alegre Retreat, workshop, Santa Fe, NM - March, 2002 San Hedrin High School Teacher, Full-time: Art and Social sciences, Willits, CA, 1985-2001 Juror, San Francisco State University Gallery, Student Textile Show, Nov., 1995 College of the Redwoods, Fort Bragg, CA, Visiting Teacher, 1994,1995,1996, 2000, 2001 Juror for Quilt National '95, Athens, OH Lecturer, Contemporary Art Quilts, Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA, March 1994 Contemporary Quilt/Surface Design Symposium, Columbus, Ohio, June 1993, 1991 Exemplary Arts Program, California Arts Council Grant, quilt making, design, calligraphy in the public schools, Willits, CA, April-May 1983 & Jan-April 1984, 1983
CollectionsMuseum of Art & Design, New York, NY The White House, Washington D.C. City of San Francisco, CA International Quilt Study Center & Museum, U of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Mendocino County Museum, Willits, CA Peter Brooks Quilt Collection, ME Jack Walsh Quilt Collection, NJ Arrowmont, School of Arts and Crafts, TN Nancy and Warren Brakensiek Collection, Albuquerque, NM (Many private individuals) |