Nancy Moore Bess
Vitae – Recent Selections
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland, "Wild Geese: The Irish in America," 2007 National Crafts Council of Ireland, Kilkenny, Ireland, "Fiber: A New World View," 2006 Gallery of Art, Szombathelyi, Hungary," Biennial of Minitextiles Int'l", 1998 Barbican Centre, London, "Threads: Contemporary American Basketry", 1998
"Textiles: 4th International Competition," Nagoya, Japan, 1998
MUSEUM, ORGANIZATION, AND UNIVERSITY EXHIBITIONS
The Fountainhead Gallery; Seattle, WA
"Masters of Contemporary Basketry", 2009 Brookfield Craft Center; Brookfield, CT
"Sacred Containments: A Show of Vessels, Nests and Shelters", 2009 Jane Sauer Gallery; Santa Fe, NM
"Basketry in Prospective", 2009
The Fountainhead Gallery; Seattle, WA
"Masters of Contemporary Basketry", 2009 National Basketry Organization; Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN
"Web and Flow", 2009 Contemporary Jewish Museum; San Francisco, CA
New Works, Old Story: 80 Artists at the Passover Table, 2008/9
Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
"Extraordinary Baskets Nancy Moore Bess", 2008 Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden, North Salem, NY
"Japanese Inspired Baskets", 2007 Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, "Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets from
The Sara and David Lieberman Collection", 2005/2006 - traveling to 2009
Long Beach Museum of Art, "Engaging Nature: Contemporary Baskets from the
Collection of Lloyd and Margit Cotsen", 2005
Racine Art Museum, Racine, "Magnificent Extravagance: Arts and Opulence", 2005 Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, "Scents of Purpose", 2005 New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, "Traditional Craft/Contemporary Art", 2004 Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, "Celebrating Nature", 2004 The Society for Arts and Crafts, Boston, "No Boundaries: Contemporary Basketry"
Traveling, 2003/2007 The Society for Arts and Crafts, Boston, "Words-Text-Stories", 2003 Fontbonne University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, "Raking Stones", 2003 Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ, "The Art of Containment", 2003
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS, U. S. GALLERIES
Andora Gallery, Carefree, AZ browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, NM R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO Snyderman - Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
REPRESENTED BY
browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT
WORK IN THE COLLECTIONS OF
Abbie Zabar American Crafts Museum Arkansas Arts Center Camille J and Alex Cook Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts Charleyne Hunter-Gault Chris Rifkin Erie Art Museum George Saxe Jack Lenor Larsen Lloyd and Margit Cotsen Sara and David Lieberman
RELATED EXPERIENCES
Guest curator, Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2008
"Bamboo by Design" Guest curator, Contemporary Craft Museum & Gallery, Portland, OR, 2006
"Defining the Bamboo Aesthetic" Guest curator, Fiber Art Center, Amherst, MA, 2005, "Bamboo: The Elegant Grass" Guest curator, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI, "Bamboo in Japanese Culture"
Traveling 2001 to 2004 Co-leader, Bamboo and Basket Arts of Japan Tour, 2004 and 2006
"Enduring Crafts of Japan" Tour, 2008 Juror, Cotsen Bamboo Prize, Tokyo, 2002 and 2004 Arts & Crafts at ABS (American Bamboo Society), Coordinator, 2001 to present Author, "Bamboo in Japan", Kodansha International, Tokyo, 2001
COMMISSIONS
Hilton Hotel, Inc. Atlanta, Wall hanging U.S. Department of State, U.S. Embassy, New Guinea, Wall hangings and Vessels U.S. Department of State, U.S. Embassy, South Africa, Wall hangings
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