Kathy Weaver

Exhibitions



Robots and Quilts, Life and Art...
bits and pieces put together to present a semblence 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


Nano Symbiotie #9
Gauche on paper
14"x 14 "

Solo Exhibitions - 2010

terra nano, Science in Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Empathetic Robot, Health in the Arts Clinic, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

Solo Exhibitions - 2009

After the Soup, Women Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, January - February

Emergent Forms, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, Illinois, January - February

Emergent Forms II
, Kishwaukee College, Malta, Illinois, March - April

Two Person Exhibitions - 2008

Kathy Weaver & Mary Seyfarth: Whimsical Musings, The Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, College of Lake County, Grayslake, Illinois (May 23 - July 3, 2008)

Selected Group Exhibitions - 2010

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

Biennial Juried Exhibition, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA, December – March 2011

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

Innovations in Fiberart V, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA , October – December 2010

International TECHstyle Biennial, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA, August – October 2010

Tool Box Flower Box, Invitational, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL, October – November, 2010

Three Person Exhibition, Zia Gallery, Winnetka, IL, September – October 2010

Caffeine IV, Murphy Hill Gallery, Chicago, IL, September – October 2010

Art Futura 2010, Portals Ltd, Chicago, IL May 2010

Fiberart International 2010, Society for Contemporary Craft and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, April – August, 2010

The Artist as Quiltmaker XIV, New Union Center for the Arts, Oberlin, Ohio, May – July 2010

Chicago Art Open, River East Art Center, Chicago, IL

Wounded in Action, E. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA, March 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

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; Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS

Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY, November – January 2010

Selected Group Exhibitions - 2009

Ethereal Fauna, Tom Robinson Studio Gallery, Chicago, IL, October – November 2009

Hubbard Street Art Walk Plus, The Studios on Hubbard, Chicago, IL, October 2009

Fiber Focus 2009, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, September – October 2009
Made By Hand, Innovations in Textile 8, St. Charles, MO, September – October 2009, click here for the exhibition catalog

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

Fiber Invitational, Iowa Artisans Gallery, Iowa City, IA, June – July, 2009

Surface Matters, Honorable Mention, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO, May 2009

Bearing Witness: Art as Social Action, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, May – June 2009

Interactive, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, June – July, 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

Selected Group Exhibitions - 2008

SAQA: Twelve Voices, Studio Art Quilt Associates and the Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, Michigan, September 13, 2008 – January 4, 2009

Freedom – The Fiber of Our Nation, Invitational,
Textile Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August – October 2008

Figuratively Speaking,
Quilt Vision Quilt Gallery, San Diego, California, August 9 – October 5, 2008

Materials Matters: Quiltmaking in the 21st Century
, Exhibit by Quilt Surface Design Symposium
, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, June 20 - August 31, 2008

The Artist as Quiltmaker XIII,
FAVA, New Union Center for the Arts, Oberlin, Ohio, May 18 – August 2, 2008

Tear in the Fabric: The Conceptually Driven Quilt,
California Polytechnic State University Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, California, May – June, 2008

New Fibers 2008, Fiber Arts Network of Michigan, University Art Gallery of Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, Escanaba, Michigan, 2008

Fiber Artists: Philadelphia #5, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2008

Selected Group Exhibitions - 2007

Membership Exhibition (juried), Visions Art Quilt Gallery, San Diego, California
October 10, 2007 - January 15, 2008

SOFA Chicago, Katie Gingrass Gallery
Lecture with others, A Fresh Look at Fiber Part II, (10:30 am, November 2)
November 2 - 4 SOFA Chicago

Transformations '07
Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, England, August 16 - 19, 2007
New South Wales, Australia (September 2007)
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, Michigan, January 12 – March 8, 2008
Visions Gallery, San Diego, CA, April 4 - May 25, 2008

Quilt National '07

Cathy Rasmussen Emerging Artist Memorial Award
Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, Ohio
May 25, 2007 - September 2, 2007

The Fiber Artists Collective, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC September 24 - November 16

Fall Exhibit, Green Lantern Studios, Mineral Point, Wisconsin
October 19 - November 26

Symbolism, Myth and Ritual,
Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL. October 22 – November 12, 2007

Chicago Art Open, Chicago Artist’s Coalition, Iron Studios, Chicago, IL, November 4 – November 27, 2007

Sum of the Parts
Honorable Mention
H & R Block ARTSCAPE
Kansas City, Missouri

Ways of Seeing Things
Deer Path Art Gallery, Lake Forest Illinois
Opening, April 6, 2007

2006 - 2007

Quilt Visions/Quilt San Diego,
Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California
November 12, 2006 - January 21, 2007

16th Drawing/Watercolor: Illinois Biennial, Merit Award
Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, Illinois
December 2, 2006 - January 14, 2007

2006
Recent Works
2006,
College of Lake County, Grayslake, Illinois
October 6 - November 5

In Human Form,
Verde Gallery, Champaign, Illinois, February

Invitational Exhibit,

Verde Gallery, Champaign, Illinois,
June 20 – June 22

ArtQuilts at the Sedgwick: On the Square
,
Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
April 8 – May 21

Fiber Artists – Philadelphia: 
DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
April 2 – April 30

The Artist as Quiltmaker XII,
New Union Center for the Arts, Oberlin, Ohio
May 21 – July 29

ALIFEX, The 10th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems,
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

RES-Art Exhibit, SOFA Gallery, Indiana University
June 1 – June 7


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