RESUME
PROFILE – A dedicated and passionate professional artist with a strong commitment to teach and assist others with their own personal artistic growth, pursuit of creative expression and appreciation of art.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Quilt National, Athens, Ohio – 2023
Explorations: Journeys in Creativity, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA – 2019
Salmon Falls Artesian Gallery - Shelburne Falls, MA – 2015 – 2019
Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI – 2019
Highfields Hall and Gardens, Falmouth, MA – 2018
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA – 2018
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Gallery A3 - 2024
Salmon Falls Artesian Gallery, Shelburne Falls, MA – 2017
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
Gallery A3, Amherst, MA – Present
Salmon Falls Artesian Gallery, Shelburne Falls, MA – 2015 - 2018
Prior 2015 – (Before my role as caregiver, which took place from 2015-2022)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Rebecca V Gallery - Tacoma, WA
MPG Gallery - Boston, MA
Gallery 267 – Greenfield, MA
Northfield Mount Hermon - Northfield, MA
D.A. Gallery - Burlington, VT
Springfield Technical School - Springfield, MA
Nacul Center Gallery - Amherst, MA
Hossmer Gallery - Northampton, MA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Fiber Art Center - Amherst, MA
Goodlander Gallery - Easthampton, MA
Rebecca V Gallery - Tacoma, WA
Gallery 267 – Greenfield, MA
Green Trees Gallery - Northfield, MA
MPG Gallery - Boston, MA
D.A. Gallery - Burlington, VT
Northampton Center for the Arts - Northampton, MA
Art=Quilt=Art - Schweinfurth Art Museum – Auburn, NY
PUBLICATIONS
Author - ‘Fabric Surface Design’ – Storey Publishing 2013
Fiber Art Now - Contracted Writer – 2015
Art Quilt Studio - Contracted Writer – 2014 & 2016
Stitch-It…Today - Contracted Writer - 2013 - 2015
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS - (Before 2015)
Imagine Artwear - Alexandria, VA
Salmon Falls Artisan Gallery - Shelburne Falls, MA
Fuller Craft Museum - Brockton, MA
Skera Gallery - Northampton, MA
MPG Gallery – Boston, MA
JURIED HIGH-END ART AND CRAFT SHOWS
Paradise City Arts Festival - Northampton and Marlboro, MA
Buyers Market of American Craft - Baltimore, MD and Philadelphia, PA
One of a Kind - New York, NY
American Craft Show NYC - New York, NY
Craft Boston - Boston, MA
Berkshires Craft Show - Great Barrington, MA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE FOR ADULTS
Snow Farm – The New England Craft Experience – Williamsburg, MA
Northeastern University – Boston, MA
Fletcher Farm School for the Arts and Crafts – Ludlow, VT
CherScapes Downtown Fiber Art Studio – Greenfield, MA
Notion to Quilt – Shelburne, MA
Michigan Handweavers Guild Conference – Mt Clemens, MI
WORK EXPERIENCE
CherScapes Downtown Fiber Art Studio – 2009-2012
Owner of an 1800 sq. ft fiber art studio that was dedicated to offering classes on all aspects of fiber art, composition, design and mixed media collage to children, teens, and adults. It was also the home of CherScapes Wearable Art.
New England Felting Supply – 2015-2016
Manager
Invited Keynote Speaker and Workshop Facilitator – 2009 - 2016
Linden Hill School – 2007-2009
Developed and taught art curriculum to adolescent boys with language-based learning differences such as Dyslexia, Asperger’s syndrome, and ADHD
Greenfield Recorder, Greenfield, MA - 2001-2008
Contracted writer as a weekly art columnist for arts and entertainment section.
Northampton Arts Walk, Northampton, MA - 2004
Founding member of the planning board.
Gallery 267, Greenfield, MA - 2004
Founding member of Steering Committee for Greenfield’s first cooperative fine art gallery.
Rice and Easy and The Rice Gallery, Northampton, MA - 2004
Founded, designed, and implemented with husband Alan Rulewich.
Magic Wings Butterfly Conservatory and Gardens - South Deerfield, MA - 1998-2004
Founded, designed, and implemented with husband Alan Rulewich.
EDUCATION
School of the Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, MA 1974 - 1978
Graduated from four year intensive, studio art and art history program. Areas of study included painting, drawing, Japanese calligraphy, and mosaic.