Location:
Mendocino County, California
Born in Berkeley, CA 1946
Education:
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, B.A., 1978 and M.F.A., 1992
Dominican College, San Rafael, CA, Single Subject Credential (Art), 1985
Ongoing Gallery and Exhibition Space:
SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Member:
WEAD (Women Eco Artists Dialog)
BAWALP (Bay Area Women Artists Legacy Project)
Ecoartspace.org
WIKIPEDIA listing
One Person Exhibitions (selected):
2020—TROUBLE UNDER THE BIG TREES: Paintings, virtual Exhibition, College of the Redwoods, Eureka, October 16 - November 13. Zoom interview with Cynthia Hooper, Professor, October 21, 6-7:30 pm. You Tube Interview
2019—THE LIGHT WITHIN—Linda MacDonald PAINTS THE REDWOODS, Haldan Gallery, Lake Tahoe Community College, Sept. 26-Nov 29, South Lake Tahoe, CA
2019—REDWOOD MEMORIES—intimate paintings, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA, May 10-April 16
2017—WORLDS WITHIN, Painting the Redwood Giants, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA, Sept. 29-Nov. 5
2013—IMAGES OF A CHANGING CALIFORNIA, Mendocino College, Ukiah, CA, Feb. 14-March 14 (Review, Ukiah Daily Journal, Karen Ripkin, 2/13/13)
2010—STORIES FROM THE NORTH WOODS, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA, (Show catalog—”Linda MacDonald: Stories from the North Woods” by Patricia Watts)
2006—PARABLES OR PREDICTIONS?—New Works On Environmental Issues of California, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA, Oct 7-Nov 19. Gallery talk
1996—CITY ART GALLERY, City College of San Francisco, March 1-March 29
Awards (selected):
2019—BEST OF SHOW Award, NOT JUST LANDSCAPES, International Juried Show, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Feb. 22-March 31, Juror, Robin Dintiman
2015—BEST OF 2-DI WORK, Mendocino Art Center juried Members’ show, Jan 4-28
2001—QUILT JAPAN AWARD, Quilt National ‘01, Athens, Ohio, June-July & Traveling Show. Travel to Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. Japan Handicraft Instructors Association
1998—MICHAEL JAMES AWARD, 5th Quilt Nihon Exhibition, Japan Handicraft Instructors Association, June, Tokyo
1989—ANNUAL FOCUS MAGAZINE Design Award, Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA, July
Group Exhibitions (selected):
2020—SANCTUARY, GearBox Gallery, Juror, Rene de Guzman (Senior curator of Art at OMCA), August 7 - Sept. 5, Oakland, CA
2020—THE GROUND UPON WHICH WE STAND, Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art, Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Berkeley, April-May, printed catalog
2020—WOMEN ECO ARTISTS DIALOG, THE LEGACY OF JO HANSEN, Yolo Arts, Woodland, CA, March 12-August 22, online gallery catalog
2019—M. Louise Stanley & Friends: NO LAUGHING MATTER, Transmission Gallery, Political Posters, Oakland, CA, August 2-Sept. 21
2019—SELF PORTRAITS IN THE AGE OF SELFIES, Jan. 10-Feb 9, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA, curated by Liz Sher
2018—OUT OF THE ASHES, Mendocino County Museum, Willits, CA, October-November
2018—WALKING THE LINE, Gear Box Gallery, juror-Drew Bennett, August 2-25, Oakland, CA
2018—ROAD MAPS, GRO Gallery Route One annual juried show, DeWitt Cheng, juror, Point Reyes Station, CA, Feb 2 - 25,
2017—THREE LEFT COAST ARTISTS, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA, April 21 to July 16, curated by Barbara Shapiro, artist talks, and paper “Three Left Coast Artists”
2017—CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE, Marin MOCA, Chester Arnold, juror, Dec. 2 - Jan. 7, Novato, CA
2017—BLOOM, Slate Contemporary, San Ramon Valley, CA, April 14-July 20
2017—GRO Gallery Route One Annual Juried Show, BEGINNINGS, juried by Chester Arnold, Point Reyes Station, CA, Jan. 27-Feb. 19
2016—THE CALIFORNIA ART QUILT REVOLUTION: From the Summer of Love to the New Millennium, Oct. - Jan., San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA
2015—IGNITE, the Art of Sustainability, Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA, March-May, (Traveling show throughout CA) Artist talk
2015—TRANSITIONS, Marin Community Foundation, 30 North Bay Artists, Jan. 21-May 15
2015—REACTION, GRO Gallery Route One, Annual Juried Show, John Seed, juror, Point Reyes Station, CA, Jan. 7-Feb. 1
2014—IGNITE, the Art of Sustainability, Fullerton Arboretum, Fullerton, CA, August-October
2014—IGNITE, the Art of Sustainability, Museum of History & Art, Ontario, CA, June-August
2013—BIRDS, BUGS, & A SABER TOOTH TIGER, Stewart-Kummer Gallery, Gualala, CA, Aug. 31 - December
2013—SFMOA Artists Gallery Warehouse Sale, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA, May 8-12
2013—OUT OF THE BLUE, GRO Gallery Route One Annual Juried Show, juror: Ruth Braunstein, January, Point Reyes Station, CA
2012—IGNITE, the Art of Sustainability, Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, Oct-Nov
2012—IGNITE, the Art of Sustainability, UC Davis Design Center, May-July
2012—BEYOND LANDSCAPE, WEAD juried show, The Foundation, Novato, CA, June 15-Sept. 28
2011—PAINTING FROM THE WRONG SIDE OF THE BRAIN, a Show of Humor, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, Artist Talks, Jan. 14-Feb. 13
2010—GROSS MCLEAF GALLERY, Art Quilt elements, Philadelphia, PA, Feb-March
2009—SEEING GREEN, Visions of a Changing Planet, Visions Art Quilt Gallery, San Diego, CA June 20-Aug. 16
2008—LEGACIES, 3-Person show, Quicksilver Mine Co., Forestville, CA, Aug. 8-Sept. 14
2004—MENDOCINO HUMOR, Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA, Feb. 21-May 16
2003—INSPIRED OBJECTS, Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA, May 17-Aug. 17
2002—ECO2, 14 Bay Area artists respond to the environment, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA, Dec. 13-Jan. 25
2000—PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER: Contemporary Quilts by Californians, Turtle Bay, Redding Museum of Art and History, Aug. 5-Sept. 24
1998—’TIL DEATH DO US PART, Stewart-Kummer Gallery, 2-Person show with Robert Comings, Gualala, CA, August - January
1997—PARALLEL PATHS, SEPARATE VISIONS—4 Person Show, Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah CA, June-September, artist talks
1994—SIERRA COLLEGE SHOW, 4-Person Show, Rocklin, CA, November
1992—NORTHLIGHT GALLERY, 4-Person show, Gualala, CA, August
1986—SAN FRANCISCO ARTS COMMISSION GALLERY, FIVE ARTISTS, San Francisco, May - July, artist catalog
Published In (selected):
THE GROUND UPON WHICH WE STAND, Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art, Abrams Claghorn Gallery, 2020
POLITICAL VOICES OF THREE LEFT COAST ARTISTS: Gyongy Laky, Linda Gass, LindaMacDonald, a paper by Barbara Shapiro, 2012
SEEING THE FOREST AND THE TREES: The Art of Linda MacDonald, by Dot Brovarney, Mendocino Arts Magazine, Summer 2010
LINDA MACDONALD: STORIES FROM THE NORTH WOODS, by Patricia Watts, catalog for one-person show at Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA, 22 pages, May-June, 2010
Interview by THE ALLIANCE FOR THE AMERICAN QUILT: Quilters’ S.O.S., Save Our Stories Project, Tape #CA94121-002, quiltalliance.org
LINDAMACDONALD: THE EVOLUTION OF AN ARTIST’S IMAGERY, by Candace Crockett, Surface Design Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3
BEYOND TRADITION, The Art of the Studio Quilt, by Michael James, American Craft Magazine, Feb/Mar 1985
Lecture/Juror Experience (selected):
SJQTM, San Jose Quilt and Textile Museum, Artist Talks, April 23 and June 15, 2017
Gallery talk, Grace Hudson Museum, IGNITE, The Art of Sustainability, March 2015
Gallery talk, Mendocino College, IMAGES OF A CHANGING CALIFORNIA, 20 Years of Art From Ecological Concerns to Homespun Whimsey, Feb. 2013
SAQA/SDA Conference Panelist, REINVENTION, San Francisco State University, March 2010
Gallery talk, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, PARABLES OR PREDICTIONS?, Oct. 2006
Keynote Speaker, SAQA Conference, Oceanside, CA, Nov. 2, 2002
Juror, San Francisco State University Gallery Student Textile Show, Nov. 1995
Juror for Quilt National ‘95, Oct. 1994, Athens, Ohio
Lecture & Workshop, San Francisco State University, Sept. 1994
Lecture, Contemporary Art Quilts, Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA March 1994
Teaching Experience (selected):
San Francisco State University, Lecturer, Surface Design, Spring and Fall Semesters, 2005 and Spring 2003
Arrowmont, School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, August, 2005 and June 1995 & 1998
Japan Handicrafts Instructors’ Association, QUILTS JAPAN PRIZE, Teaching in Tokyo & Osaka, Sept. 2002
College of the Redwoods, Fort Bragg, CA, visiting teacher, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001
Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA, Surface Design, August 1993, 1994, 1991, 1983
In The Collection Of (selected):
Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY
The White House, Washington D.C.
City of San Francisco, CA
International Quilt Study Center & Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Mendocino County Museum, Willits, CA
Peter Brooks Quilt Collection, ME
Jack Walsh Quilt Collection, NJ
Japanese Handicrafts Society, Tokyo, Japan
Nancy and Warren Brakensiek Collection, Albuquerque, NM
(Many private individuals)