Cyborg Female 1: Complacent Nature
Satins, silks, velvets, airbrushed,
hand embroidered, hand quilted
90" x 54"



Represented by Zia Gallery
548 Chestnut, Winnetka, IL 60093
T 847-446-3970

Robots and Quilts, Life and Art...
bits and pieces put together to present a semblance of a whole.

By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. The cyborg is our ontology; it gives us our politics.
Haraway, A Manifesto for Cyborgs,
Routledge, 1990

Central to any creative process, materials provide a common stage on which art and design can communicate, flaunt their unique attributes and at the same time express similarities. Materials contribute to an object's meaning and in many cases are integral to its structural, functional, and narrative identity.
Brochure, The Museum of Modern Art,
New York, 2000


Works in the permanent collection of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
Guns Are Us, Funerary Piece One
Guns Are Us, Funerary Piece Two
Guns Are Us, Funerary Piece Three


Current, recent and future exhibitions

• Crossing Lines: The Many Faces of Fiber, Textile Study Group of New York, World Financial Center, New York, New Work, December 2011 – February 2012

• Fiber Focus 2011, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, September – October 2011

• Caffeine V, Triangle Gallery, Chicago, IL, October 2011

• Element Flux, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL, October 2011, on the web

•Wounded in Action, now traveling, at the Chicago Cultural Center, June 1 through August 31 See website (click here); New York Times article (click here) ; Reuters' press release (click here)

• Fiberart International 2010, Society for Contemporary Craft and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, now traveling to Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, Rochester, New York, April 30 - July 3, 2011; San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design, San Francisco, California, October 13, 2011 - January 15, 2012, For information and the catalog, click here.

• Kathy Weaver: Robot Stories in 2-D and 3-D (Solo Exhibit), President’s Gallery, Chicago State University, Chicago, IL, March 2011

• Play, Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY, May – June 2011

• Pushing the Surface, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, Ohio, May – August 2011

• Marvelous Toys and Fabulous Things, Invitational, H.F.Johnson Art Gallery at Carthage College, Kenosha, WI., December 2010 – January 2011

• Quilt Visions 2010 – No Boundaries, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA, October 2010 – March 2011

• terra nano, Science in Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, April 9 - June 11, 2010, Solo Show, To see the poster, click here.

• SAQA: Twelve Voices, Studio Art Quilt Associates and the Dennos Museum Center, now traveling to the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC, September 10, 2009 - January 22, 2010, Pence Art Gallery, Davis, CA, September 21-November 14, 2010


Recent exhibitions
• Figuratively Fiber, Mondale Art Center, The Textile Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March – April 2011
• Ethereal Fauna, H. F. Johnson Gallery, Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin, March – April 2011
• Innovations in Fiberart V, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA , October – December 2010
• Biennial Juried Exhibition, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA, December – March 2011
• Three Person Exhibition, Zia Gallery, Winnetka, IL, September – October 2010
• Tool Box Flower Box, Invitational, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL, October – November, 2010 - See the Chicago Art Magazine and ARTslant Chicago
• International TECHstyle Biennial, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA, August – October 2010
• Caffeine IV, Murphy Hill Gallery, Chicago, IL, September – October 2010
• Art Futura 2010, Portals Ltd, Chicago, IL May 2010. For information, click here.
• Fiberart International 2010, Society for Contemporary Craft and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, April – August, 2010, For information and the catalog, click here.
• Empathetic Robot, Health in the Arts Clinic, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, January 12 - April 9, 2010, Solo Show
•The Artist as Quiltmaker XIV, New Union Center for the Arts, Oberlin, Ohio, May – July 2010
•Wounded in Action, E. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA, March 2010, Health Sciences and Human Services Library at the University of Maryland-Baltimore from May 14 through Veterans Day 2010, See website (click here)
• Modern Material, Living Arts, Tulsa, Oklahoma, February 2010
• Sum of the Parts, Honorable Mention, H & R Block ARTSCAPE, Kansas City, Missouri now traveling to the Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum, Logan, Kansas, December 2009 - February 2010
• Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY, November – January 2010
• Ethereal Fauna, Tom Robinson Studio Gallery, Chicago, IL, October – November 2009
• Hubbard Street Art Walk Plus, The Studios on Hubbard, Chicago, IL, October 2009 - Click here for Announcement
• Fiber Focus 2009, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, September – October 2009 - Click for Exhibition Catalog
• Made By Hand, Crossroads Gallery, St. Charles, MO, September – October 2009
• Needles and Pins, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL, September – October 2009
• Modern Material, Untitled[ArtSpace], Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, July – August, 2009
• Pushing the Surface, Johnson Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, Ohio, May – August 2009
• Annual Members Show, Juried, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL August 2009
• Surface Matters, Honorable Mention, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO, May 2009
• Fiber Invitational, Iowa Artisans Gallery, Iowa City, IA, June – July, 2009
• Interactive, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, June – July, 2009
• Bearing Witness: Art as Social Action, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, May – June 2009
• Interactive, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, June – July, 2009

Presentations

Martyr's Bar, Pecha Kucha night, December 2, 2008, Chicago, Illinois. To see Kathy's presentation, click here to see, or download!
Lecture and Workshop, North Suburban Needle Arts Guild, Northbrook, Illinois, May 2011

Other exhibitions
• After the Soup, Women Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, Solo Show, January - February, 2009, Click to view Exhibition Catalog
• Emergent Forms, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, Illinois, Solo Show, January - February, 2009
• Emergent Forms II, Kishwaukee College, Malta, Illinois, Solo Show, March - April, 2009
• SAQA: Twelve Voices, Studio Art Quilt Associates and the Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, Michigan, September 2008 – January 2009
• Caffeine III, Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, March – April 2009
• Materials: Hard & Soft, GDAC – Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, Texas, February – March, 2009
• And You Think That's Funny, Women Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, January – February 2009