Education
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, M.A., Painting, Art History
Teaching Fellowship
Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, B.S., Art Education
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Art Academy of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Solo Exhibitions – 2011 - 2012
Kathy Weaver – Weaver’s World, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL, June - July 2012
Kathy Weaver – Dispatch from the Future, Kreztmann Art Gallery, Concordia University, River Forest, IL, March 2012
Kathy Weaver: Robot Stories in 2-D and 3-D, President’s Gallery, Chicago State University, Chicago, IL, March 2011
Two-Person Exhibitions – 2013
Michael Cutlip and Kathy Weaver: Mixed Media Works on Panel and Fabric, Zia Gallery, Winnetka, IL January – March 2013
Selected Group Exhibitions – 2011 to 2013
Quilt National ’13, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH, May 24 – September 2, 2013
Chicago Artists Interpret Shakespeare “As They Like It,” H. F. Johnson Gallery, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, February – March 2013
Quilt Visions Biennial 2012 – Brainstorms, Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA, October 2012 – February 2013
New Fibers '12, Eastern Michigan University Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI, November – December, 2012
ArtPrize – Art to Change the World, Fountain Street Church, Grand Rapids, MI., September – October 2012
Recent Works, 2012, Award of Merit, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
Blind Eye – The Result of Doing Nothing, The Human Thread, Chicago, IL, October
Caffeine VI, Greenleaf Art Center, Chicago, IL, September, 2012
Salon des Refuse, Guild Gallery, New York, NY, September – November, 2012
Arrowmont Instructor's Exhibit, Sandra J. Blain Gallery, Arowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinberg, TN, ay 25 – September 8 2012
ArtQuilt Elements 2012,The Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, March – May 2012
Chicago Artists Interpret Shakespeare “As They Like It,” Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL, February – March 2012
Stitched Together, Art and Science, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, November 2011 – January 2012
Crossing Lines: The Many Faces of Fiber, Textile Study Group of New York, World Financial Center, New York, NY, December 2011 – February 2012
Fiber Focus 2011, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, September – October 2011
Wounded in Action, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL, June – August 2011, traveling to Fort Carson, CO, February – March 2012
Fiberart International 2010, Society for Contemporary Craft and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, now traveling to San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design, San Francisco, California, October 13, 2011 - January 15, 2012
Biennial Juried Exhibition, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA, December – March 2011
SAQA: Twelve Voices, Studio Art Quilt Associates and the Dennos Museum Center, now traveling to Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS, March – June 2011
Awards and Honors
Illinois Arts Council Artist Project Grant, 2012
Ragdale Artist Residency Fellowship Recipient, Lake Forest, IL, 2012, 2010, 2007, 2003, 1997
Surface Matters, Honorable Mention, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO, May 2009
Quilt National ’07, Cathy Rasmussen Emerging Artist Memorial Award, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH
Sum of the Parts, Honorable Mention, H & R Block ARTSCAPE, Kansas City, Missouri, 2007
Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences Artist Residency Fellowship Recipient, Rabun Gap, GA, 2002, 2003
The Artist As Quiltmaker, Juror’s Award, FAVA Gallery, Oberlin, OH, 2000
Fellowship Recipient, Banff Centre for The Arts, Canada, 1988
Gallery Representation
Zia Gallery, Winnetka, IL
Work in Collections
Guns Are Us, Funerary Pieces I, II and III (fiber art), Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
College of Lake County, Grayslake, Illinois
Private Collectors
Recent Books/Articles
Weaver’s World, Exhibition Catologue for Solo Show, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL 2012
Wounded in Action, An Art Exhibition of Orthopaedic Advancements, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Exhibition Catalog, 2010
Quilt Visions 2010 – No Boundaries, Exhibition Catalog, Quilt Visions, 2010
After the Soup, Exhibition Catalog for Solo Show at Woman Made Gallery, 2009
12 Voices, Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc., 2008
Portfolio 15, 16, 17 & 18, Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc., 2010
Quilt National 2007, The Best of Contemporary Quilts, Lark Books, 2007