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 Artist's Statement: I am a North Carolina artist who uses layering of textiles, ink and thread to create realistic images of exaggerated size to convey impressions of nature. My work has been called fiber art, textile art, or art quilting. My art work, informed by the traditions of quilting and botanical illustrating, combines passions for nature, texture, color and women's work as art. I work with fabric because I love it: the look of it, the feel of it, and its historical meanings of comfort and security. I love the way the machine quilt-line creates both line and texture as bas relief sculpture. Recent work incorporates hand stitching for enrichment and details. My series, Seed Play, began mid 2008 and focuses on tree seeds and fruits, as metaphors for life's riches. Working directly from collected seed specimens, my designs are based on research and sketching to clarify what is architecturally unique for each species. Using the uniqueness of tree seeds as metaphor for all of life, I strive to illustrate that each individual is unique and wonderful by focusing with admiration and care on a part of the tree that is often overlooked. Biography: Nancy G. Cook's art has a graphic quality and at the same time, provides an experience of intimacy through close-up views of nature created with layered and embellished fabrics. Her hand-guided machine quilting creates lines and texture reminiscent of low-relief sculpture. She has been working in this medium since 1994, retiring from working in organizational psychology to create art full time in 2001. Her work is in numerous private and public collections throughout the USA. Her work has been exhibited on five continents and throughout the United States. She has had a dozen solo and featured artist exhibitions since 2010 featuring her Seed Play series. Martha Seilman selected her as a featured artist in Art Quilt Portfolios: The Natural World. Her work is featured in the Gallery of Point, Click, Quilt by Susan Brubaker Knapp, C & T Publishers, 2011. Two of her quilts can be seen in 500 Art Quilts: An Inspiring Collection of Contemporary Work, Ray Hemachandra, editor, Lark Books, 2010. Her art textiles have been widely published, including a piece on the cover of Creative Quilting: The Journal Quilt Project in 2006. Pelton's Rose-Gentian received a Best of Show Award at the Aullwood Audubon Center 2010 Exhibition. Cook received a Regional Artist Grant for Established Artists from the Arts and Science Councils of Charlotte, Mecklenburg and surrounding counties in 2009. She was a 2004 Summer Affiliate Artist at the McColl Center for Visual Arts. She was given the Award of Excellence at the 2004 Art and Soul of Quilting, Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI. In 2003, she received a Regional Artist Project Grant for Emerging Artists from the Arts and Science Councils of Charlotte, Mecklenburg and surrounding counties. Resume: Public and Corporate Collections:
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Best of Show, It's a Green World, Aullwood Audubon Center 2010 Quilt Show, Dayton, OH 1st Place – Mixed Media, Spring Juried and Judged Show, Mint Hill Art, Mint Hill, NC Merit Award; A Natural View, Juried Art Exhibit, The Schiele Museum of Natural History and The Gaston County Art Guild, Gastonia NC Juror's Choice: Susan Brandeis, ARTQUILTStransitions, 2009 Best of Show- Small: Charlotte Quilters' Guild 2009 show 2009 Regional Artist Grant, Charlotte/Mecklenburg and North Carolina Arts and Science Council 2007 Education Grant, Charlotte Quilters' Guild Arts and Science Council Scholarship for Creative Capital Established Artists Professional Development Conference, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte, NC, 2007 Solo Show Award, The Art and Soul of Quilting, Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI, 2006 Affiliate Artist, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Summer Program, 2004 2004 Arts & Science Council Regional Artist Project Grant, Charlotte/Meck. Inc., Charlotte, NC 2004 Educational Grant, Charlotte Quilters' Guild, Charlotte, NC Honorable Mention, Small Art Quilts, International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, 2004 Award of Excellence, The Art and Soul of Quilting, Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI, 2004 Award of Merit- Humor, 2003 Asheville Quilt Show and Competition, Asheville, NC Judges Choice Award, Old Church Gallery Quilters Show, Martinsville, VA, 2001 Arboretum Award, Asheville Quilt Show, Asheville, NC, 2001 Bibliography (publications including her art): Art Quilt Portfolio: The Natural World, Martha Sielman, Lark Craft Books, 2012 (featured artist) SAQA Journal, Fall 2011, SAQA member gallery: Blue Quilts, pg 23 The Studio Quilt: No. 6, State of the Art, Sandra Sider, 2012 Point, Click, Quilt by Susan Brubaker Knapp, C & T Publishing, 2011, pg 109 Art Meets Science, Studio Art Quilt Associates, 2010, pgs 1, 18-19 SAQA Journal, Spring 2010, SAQA member gallery: Pieced Quilts, pg 18 500 Art Quilts: An Inspiring Collection of Contemporary Work, Lark Books, Jan. 2010 pgs 325, 406, 429 Louise Barden, All Stitched Up, Charlotte Realtor Reflections, Jan-Feb 2010, pgs 48-49 Studio Art Quilt Associates Journal 16, pg 59 Quilters' Save Our Stories Interview, The Alliance for American Quilts, April 21, 2004 Studio Art Quilt Associates Journal 15, Nov. 2008, pg 54 SAQA Journal, Winter 2008, p 15 Studio Art Quilt Associates Journal 14, Nov. 2007, Pg 39 Creative Quilting – The Journal Quilt Project, Karey Bresenhan, Ed., November 2006, Cover, Pgs 142-143 Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. Portfolio 13, November 2006, Pg 36 Studio Art Quilt Associates Portfolio 12, November 2005, Pg 38 The Best of SAQA, CD, November 2005 Quilts: A World of Beauty, Journal of IQA, Winners Gallery, Art, Small, Spring 2005, V. 25, No 4, pp 18-20 Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. Portfolio 12, 2005, Pg 38 Denton Orator, August 24, 2005 Thomasville Times, August 25, 2005 The Dispatch, August 24, 2005 Art QUILT Art Catalogue, October, 2004, Cover, pg 22 The PENN Online, September 20, 2004 Focus on Batiks, Jan Bode Smiley, C & T Publishers, Spring 2004, Pg 53 Charlotte Observer, May 13, 2001, pg 2F, February 18, 2004 and October 2003 The Art of the Quilt 4th Biennial Invitational Exhibition Catalogue, 2004 Quilting Arts magazine, September 2002, pg 68 The Art of the Quilt, 3rd Biennial Invitational Exhibition Catalogue, 2002 Publications (by her): A Kousa for Mercy, SAQA Journal, Fall 2012 (web only article) How Do You Do That? Stitches e-magazine Quilting by the Slightly Obsessive, Machine Quilting Unlimited, September 2009, Vol. XIV, No. 5, Pgs 66-68 Planning is Key for a Successful Regional Conference, SAQA Journal, Spring 2008, pp 12-13 Techniques in Dimensional Appliqué, American Quilter Magazine, Spring 2004, pp 40-43 Stop! Don't Cut up or Throw out That Quilt, Senior Directions, March 2000, pg 6 Quilts: From Necessity to Self Expression, 2004, 27 pages Consulting, Presentations, Workshops: Artist Demonstrator, American Craft Council Charlotte Show, Oct. 30, 31, and Nov 1, 2008 Consultant for Mint Museum of Craft + Design for Fiberart International 2007 Exhibition Creating Line and Texture with Hand Embellishments, workshop for Charlotte Quilters' Guild The Generosity of Quilters, lecture, 2007 Spirituality through the Arts, Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte, December 2006 From Art Dropout to Art Quilter, lecture, 2005 Spirituality through the Arts, Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte, February 2005 Consultant for Mint Museum of Craft + Design, for American Quilt Classics, 1800-1980: The Bresler Collection, docent training, August 2003 Coordinator- 2 invitational quilt shows, Charlotte Institute of Art, November 2002, February 2003 Consultant, Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Quilts from the Carolinas docent training, April, 2002 Panelist for Mint Museum of Craft + Design on Quilting in Families, March 2000; educational program for Spirits of the Cloth exhibition Quilting demonstrations for Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte Quilters' Guild, Charlotte Visitors' Center Professional and Related Volunteer Memberships: Mint Hill Arts Studio Art Quilt Associates – Professional Member Professional Art Quilt Alliance – South – Founding member Fiber ART Options - Founding member McColl Center for Visual Arts – Steering Committee for Post-Modern Needleworks Exhibition 2004 Charlotte Quilters' Guild: 1st Vice President, June 2002-May 2003; Program Chair, June 2001 – May 2002; CQG Liaison with the Mint Museum – September 2003- June 2009 Mint Museum of Craft + Design – Docent, American Quilt Classics, 1800-1980: The Bresler Collection Education: BA, Queens College, Charlotte, NC; MA, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Master Class, Dorothy Caldwell, QSDI, 2009 Split Rock Arts Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN – Susan Brandeis, 2007 Arrowmont – Elizabeth Barton, 2004 Quilt Surface Design Symposium, Sessions 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Design and Composition Coursework with painting instructors Sally Miller of Charlotte, NC in 2003; Ned Wert of Brush Valley, PA in 2002 and 2003 |
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