Mary Vaneecke

Solo and Small Group Exhibitions

2020

• Unravelling:  The Case for Reparations and (White) Silence is Violence, ‘We Are the Story,’ The Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN.

2019

• Little Elegies, The Mourning Project, (the first exhibition of this community art project to collect 23,000 pairs of handmade baby booties to draw attention to the problem of infant mortality in the U.S.), YWCA of Southern Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
• The Weight of Water I,  American Civil Liberties Union, Arizona Chapter’s ‘In This Together’ travelling exhibition.

2017

• Dark Desert Skies, Tohono Chul’s Call and Response II invitational.
• Haiku I, Color Affects, Art Cloth Network, travelling exhibition.

2015

• Chaos Controlled, the art of Mary Vaneecke, Art House Centro, Tucson, AZ.  January, 2015.
• Anything Goes, Art Cloth Network, travelling exhibition.

2013

• UNBOUND, Fiber Artists of Southern Arizona, presented by The Drawing Studio, Tucson, Arizona.  April-May 2013.

2012

• Fiber Artists of Southern Arizona, presented by the Tucson Jewish Community Center. December 2012.
  

2011

• Flux Gallery, 2960 N. Swan Rd., Suite 136, Tucson, AZ.  July 2011 through February 2012.

• Arts Marketplace Tucson,  Subversive Stitches solo exhibition, August 20-September 27, 2011.

Major Awards

2017

• Haiku II, Honorable Mention, Studio Art Quilt Associates Regional Exhibition, ‘Exposures.’

2010

• Homage, Handiquilter Longarm Workmanship Award/Wall Quilt, American Quilters Society, Paducah, KY.
• My Mother is a Fish, Honorable Mention, Form Not Function Exhibition, Carnegie Center for Art and History, New Albany, NY.
• My Wish for You, Alice Wilder, quiltmaker, Exemplary Machine Quilting Professional, Tucson Quilters’ Guild, Tucson, AZ.

2009

• Holyrood Abbey II, Award of Excellence, Tubac Art Center Amadeus exhibition, Tubac, AZ.
• Homage, First Place, ‘Other’ Category, Tucson Quilters’ Guild, Honorable Mention, ‘Innovative Custom’ Category, Home Machine Quilters Showcase, UT.

2008

• Circlesss II, First Place Art Quilt, Arizona Quilters’ Guild, Phoenix, AZ.
• It’s All About the Quilting, Exemplary Machine Quilting Professional, Tucson Quilters’ Guild, Tucson, AZ/
• Circlesss II, Judge’s Choice, Tucson Quilters’ Guild, Tucson, AZ.

Juried Exhibitions

2017 

• Frozen in Time II,  Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA.
• Poisoning Flint,  Studio Art Quilt Associates’ H2Oh! travelling exhibition.
• Haiku II, Frozen in Time I, Studio Art Quilt Associates’ Arizona Regional Exhibition, Chandler, AZ.

2016

• Surface Design Association’s Transgressing Traditions exhibit, Poisoning Flint at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York.
• Tohono Chul Park, In Full Bloom exhibit, Abuela’s Garden and Revisions exhibit, Frozen in Time III.

2015

• Art Cloth Network’s Anything Goes exhibit, Woven Traditions. 
• Studio Art Quilt Associates Wild Fabrications exhibit. It’s a Jungle Out There.

2014

• Studio Art Quilt Associates, Food for Thought travelling exhibition.  Chopsticks and Edamame.  
• Journeys, Studio Art Quilt Associates of Arizona, presented by Tucson Jewish Community Center, Tucson, Arizona.  Modern Love.
• International Quilt Association, Quilt Festival, Houston, TX.  It’s a Jungle Out There.

2013

• Studio Art Quilt Associates, Radical Elements invitational travelling exhibition.

2012

• Square Peg V, Etherton Gallery at the Temple of Music and Art, Red, Tucson, AZ.
• Almost Symmetrical, Art Quilts XVI:  Something to Say, Chandler, AZ.

2010

• Cappuccino with Extra Foam, Wilderness Trails I, Samaras Rising, Out of Square:  A Look at Contemporary Art Quilts, The Drawing Studio, Tucson, AZ.
• Complementary Samaras I, Tubac Arts Center, Tubac, AZ, Arizona Edges show.
• Midnight Swim, Tubac Arts Center, Tubac, AZ, Arizona Edges show.
• You’re Not the Only Starfish in the Sea, FAVA Biennial, Oberlin, OH.
• My Mother is a Fish, Form, Not Function exhibition, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN.

2009

• Homage, World Quilt Show – New England, Manchester, NH.
• Holyrood Abbey II, Tubac Art Center Amadeus show, Tubac, AZ.
• Circlesss III, Tubac Art Center’s Amadeus show, Tubac, AZ.
• Waterways:  Autumn at Tobermory, Tubac Art Center’s Amadeus show. Tubac, AZ.
• Waterways:  Primarily Samaras, Studio Art Quilt Associates traveling exhibit, Points of View.
• Circlesss II:  Boundless, Tubac Art Center Arizona Edges show, Tubac, AZ.

2008

• Waterways: Primarily Samaras, Quilts=Art=Quilts exhibition, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY.

2007

• My Mother is a Fish, Quilts=Art=Quilts exhibition, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY.

Publications

2017

• Desconocidos, The Migrant Quilt Project, Associated Press, LA Times, Arizona Daily Star.

2015

• Studio Art Quilt Associates Portfolio 23, October, 2015

2014

• Wild and Wonderful 3-D Quilts, Mary Vaneecke, El Sol Quilting Studio, AZ, 2013.
• Studio Art Quilt Associates Portfolio 22, October 2014.

2013

• “Art Critique Challenges, Encourages SAQA Members,” SAQA Journal, Studio Art Quilt Associates, CT, 2013.
• Studio Art Quilt Associates Portfolio 21, October 2013.

2011

• The Studio Quilt, No. 6: State of the Art, by Sandra Sider, New York, 2011.
• “Quilting Using Pre-Programmed Decorative Stitches,” by Diane Rusin Doran, Machine Quilting Unlimited, November/December 2011.
• Portfolio 18, Studio Art Quilt Associates, October, 2011.

2010

• “Everything Old is New Again,” Quilting Arts Magazine, October-November 2010.
• American Quilter, June 2010.
• Portfolio 17, Studio Art Quilt Associates, October 2010.
• Tucson Open Studios Tour Guide.

2009

• Machine Quilting Unlimited, November 2009.
• Portfolio 16, Studio Art Quilt Associates, October 2009.

2008

• Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter, Katie Pasquini Masopust, C&T Publishing, Lafayette, CA.

2007

• Blended Quilt Backgrounds, Jean Biddick, American Quilters Society, Paducah, KY.
• Rose of Sharon–New Quilts from an Old Favorite, American Quilters Society, Paducah, KY.
• Tucson-Pima Arts Council, Open Studio Tour Calendar, Tucson, AZ.

Workshops and Lectures

2017

• Studio Art Quilt Associates Annual Conference, How to Build a Quilt Bomb Lightening Round, Lincoln, NE.
• Wild and Wonderful 3-D Quilts class and Confessions of a Subversive Stitcher Lecture Agave Quilters, Sun Lakes, AZ.
• Confessions of a Subversive Stitcher, San Jose Quilt and Textile Museum, San Jose, CA.

2015

• IQA Quilt Market Houston, Schoolhouse demonstrations.
• IQA Chicago, 3-D quilting demonstrations.
• Shibori Salon Series, El Sol Quilting Studio, Tucson, AZ.
• Longarm and machine quilting classes, Arizona Vac and Sew, Tucson, AZ 2013 through 2015.

2013

• Colour My Fabric:  Paintstiks, Green Valley Quilters Guild, AZ.  November 2013.
• Longarm and machine quilting classes, Arizona Vac and Sew, Tucson, AZ 2013 through 2015.

2012

• Colour My Fabric:  Paintstiks, The Drawing Studio, Tucson, AZ.  March 3, 2012.
• Colour My Fabric:  Paintstiks, Sun City Vistoso, Tucson, AZ.  March 2012.

2011

• Confessions of a Subversive Stitcher, Tucson Pima Arts Council, Arts Marketplace, Flux Gallery.
• The Rust of the Story, rust-dyeing demonstration, Tucson Quilters’ Guild, Quilt Fiesta. Tucson, AZ.

2009

• Beauty is Only Skin Deep, surface design techniques demonstration, Studio Art Quilt Associates, Longbeach, CA.
• Beauty is Only Skin Deep, surface design techniques demonstration, Tucson Quilters’ Guild, Quilt  Fiesta, Tucson, AZ.
• Longarm quilting classess, Bernina Sewing Center, Tucson, AZ.

Memberships

 Education

• Art Cloth Mastery Class, Jane Dunnewold, instructor, San Antonio, TX, 2011-2013.
• MPA, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1994.
• BA, English, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1984.