PAMELA ALLEN

199 Albert St., Kingston ON   Canada   K7L 3V4     613 542 5866

 Allen5@sympatico.ca


FABRIC ART C.V.

 

EXHIBITIONS:

2011  Art Quilts at the Whistler, Lowell MA
2011  THE ART QUILT EXPERIENCE, STONE quarry Art Park, Cazanovia , NY
2011 SACRED THREADS
2011 ART QUILTS: Movement, PAQA South, Durham NC
2011 PARALLAX, Kunstler Art Gallery, Rochester NY

2011 QUILT CANADA, London Ontario

2011  GOOD FOR YOU, special exhibition IQA Houston Tx.

2011  O CANADA, International Quilt Festival, Houston

2011  CELEBRATE SPRING IQA international show, Cincinnati, Honorable mention art

2011  CELEBRATIONS exhibition, National Quilt Museum, Paducah

2011  Fabric of Legacies, Lincoln Center Gallery, Fort Collins, CO

 

2010 SAQA ILLUMINATIONS

2010 Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, CA

2010 IQA O CANADA

2010 IQA  WONDERS OF THE WORLD

2010 Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center QUILTS=ART=QUILTS

2010   Mancuso WORLD QUILT COMPETITION

2010 IN FULL BLOOM at International Quilt Festival, Houston

2010 QUILT ODYSSEY, Shippenburg, PA

2010 Paqa South , ILLUMINATIONS

2010, WHISTLER GALLERY LOWELL MA, Quilt art from fine art

2010 IQA Houston special exhibition O CANADA

2010 QUILT VISIONS, San Diego

2010 Road to California, Best Humorous quilt, 2ND place Art People

2010 ART QUILT-ILLUMINATIONS, PAQA South, Durham Arts Council, NC

2010 Machine Quilting Expo,  New Hampshire, Teacher’s Choice Award

2010 INTERPRETATIONS, Visions Art Quilt Gallery, San Diego

2010 Quilt Canada, Calgary, Alberta

2010 FAVA Biennial Exhibition

 

2009 IQA World of Beauty, Houston, Tx

2009  Chandler Arts Center, ART QUILTS SIGNIFICANT STITCHING, Chandler Arizona

2009  Quilt Visions member show

2009 Pacific International Quilt festival, Santa Clara, CA

2009 Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, QUILT=ART=QUILTS

2009 PAQA South , Art Quilts- Transitions, Durham Arts Council, NC

2009 Anderson Art Center, Wisconsin. Solo exhibit

2009 Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte Ontario. Solo Exhibition

2009 Seaway Quilt Show, Clayton N.Y. Feature artist

2009 Taiwan International exhibition, Taiwan, March 25 - April 8, 2009.

2009 National Juried Show, Saskatoon, Canada. Judge’s Choice

2009 Quilt Odyssey, Shippensburg, PA


2008 NATIONAL QUILT ASSOCIATION SHOW, Honourable mention wallhanging

2008, QUILT ODDYSSEY,   Honourable mention

2008 CHAMELEON NATION GALLERY, Kingston, ON

2008 ARTQUILTS, CULTURES, Page Walker Arts and History Center, Cary, NC

2008 PUZZLED AND BOARD, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, Mass.

2008 CELEBRATE SPRING, IQA International show, Chicago, IL

2008 QUILT=ART=QUILT, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, New York

2008 WORLD QUILT EXHIBITION, Touring US

2008 SAQA Canada, Synthesis, Toronto Creativ fest and Ottawa

2008 GALLERY FIFTY, Traverse City, MI]

2008 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL QUILT EXHIBITION, Santa Clara, CA

2008 IQA WORLD OF BEAUTY, Houston TX

2008 IQA JOURNAL PROJECT:ELEMENTS, Houston, TX

2008 TOWN AND COUNTRY SPECIAL EXHIBIT, Houston, TX

2008 MASTERS;ART QUILTS, SAQA sponsored, Houston, TX

2008 ART QUILTS XIII-LUCKY BREAK, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ

2008 I-4 CORRIDOR-STRETCHING THREADS ACROSS FLORIDA, Harris House, New Smyrna Beach, FL

 

2007 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL QUILT FESTIVAL, Santa Clara, California

2007 QUILT ODYSSEY, Shippensburg, PA

2007 The Del Thomas Collection, VISIONS ART QUILT GALLERY, San Diego,

2007 FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING, Ricky Tims Gallery, LaVita, CO

2007 Ontario Juried show, Kitchener ON

2007 CQA National show, Kamloops B.C. Judges Choice award

2007 IN FULL BLOOM; IQA special exhibit, Houston Texas

2007 MARKINGS, PAQA sponsored exhibition, NC ( Judge’s Choice art quilt)

2007 Lower Town Quilt Walk, Paducah, KS (Best in Show)

2007 Albuquerque Fiber Festival

2007 “Stretching the Threads ‘, Atlantic Center for the Arts at Harris House, Florida

2007 Celebrate Spring, IQA festival, Chicago

2007, Road to California,  Upland Ca.

2007 “She Made Her Mark”, Quilter’s Hall of Fame, Indiana


2006 “Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Gallery, Syracuse NY

2006 “Art Quilts XI”. Chandler Art center, Chandler AZ

2006 “Translucent Passages”, Union Avenue Fiber & Art Gallery, Pueblo Colorado

2006 Quilt Canada, Ottawa Ontario ( First prize innovative quilt)

2006 “QuiltArt@10”, Lowell MA

2006 National Quilt Association show, Columbus Ohio ( second prize art quilt)

2006 World Quilt Competition, starting New Hampshire and touring ( Honourable mention in World Innovative)

2006 “Fiber Renaissance”. Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, Illinois

2006 “Convergence”, SAQA sponsored, Grand Rapids, Michigan

2006 “Insecta”, Aullwood Audubon Center, Dayton Ohio

2006 “Quilts for Change”, Columbus Ohio

2006 “Culture of my Country”, Patchwork Expo, Lyon France

2006 “Fruit of the Vine, Patchwork Expo, Lyon France

2006 “Changing the World One Thread at a Time”: Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac Arizona, travel to France

2006” Parallels and Intersections: Artists Quilt A World”, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Museum, West Chester Ohio

2006 Celebrate Spring, IQA festival, Chicago, IL (Honourable Mention Art Quilt)

 

2005 Contemporary Canadian Quilts, traveling exhibition, Yokohama and Sendai Japan

2005 Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, CA

2005 World Quilt competition, Mancuso traveling show, (3rd for Innovative in World)

2005 Quiltarts 10th Anniversary show, IQA Festival, Houston, Texas

2005 In Full Bloom, IQA special Exhibit, IQA Quilt Festival , Houston, Texas

2005 I Remember Mama Part III, IQA Quilt Festival,, Houston Texas

2005 Road to California, Montclair CA, (First prize art quilt, First prize most humourous quilt)

2005 Small Wonders, IQS Spring special exhibit, Chicago

2005 Carpe Diem, traveling special exhibit with Mancuso shows

2005 Albuquerque Fiber Fiesta

2005 Ontario Juried Exhibition, Kitchener Waterloo

2005 Grand National: Airborne, Sheridan College Art gallery, Kitchener Waterloo

2005 Common Threads, Oakville Arts council

2005 Faces of Women, Las Vegas Arts Council

2005 Women’s Week, Lowell Mass


2004 Art Quilts IX, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler Arizona

2004 Fiberedge Sampler, special exhibition, touring with Mancuso shows

2004 World of Beauty, International Quilt Festival, Houston Texas

2004 Changing Definitions, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock Arkansas

2004 Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara California, (judges choice)

2004 Quilted Cuisine, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell Mass.

2004 Expressions in Textiles, New Haven Connecticut

2004 Quilts for Change, Cincinnati OH ( Best contemporary quilt)

2004 I Remember Mama part 2, Houston Texas

2004 Canadian National Quilt Festival, Winnipeg, MN, Canada

2004 In Full Bloom, Chicago, The Hague Netherlands, Houston

2004 Old Masters :New Masters, Chicago, The Hague Netherlands, Houston

2004 Considering Quilts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Harris House ,New Smyrna Beach FL.

2004 Instructor’s Exhibition, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach FL

2004 Canadian National Juried Quilts, Winnipeg Manitoba

2004Ontario Juried Show, Waterloo, ON, Canada

2004AQS Quilt Show ,Paducah

2004 Fine Focus touring exhibition

2004 35 years of Inspiration, Sponsor Quilting Newsletter Magazine


2003 Dreaming the Garden, touring group show, curator Laura Cater-woods

2003 Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, California

2003 Tubac Art Center, “Wrapped in Cloth”, Tubac Arizona, curator Thelma Smith

2003 Agnes Etherington Art Centre, “Connected”, Kingston, Canada,

2003 International Quilt Festival, “World of Beauty”, Houston Texas,

2003 Chandler Center for the Arts, “A Cut Above”, Chandler, Arizona,

2003 World Quilt & Textile:On Tour, Michigan, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, California, (2nd Place of Country),

2003 Thayer Memorial Library, “Dreaming the Garden”, Lancaster, MA,

2003 Aullwood Audubon Center, “Airborne:Birds, Flight and the Wrights”,Dayton, Ohio,

2003 David Myers Gallery, “Uptown Quilts”,Websterville, Ohio,

2003 NYQ2003!, “Invitational Exhibit “, Troy, New York,

2003 Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta , Albuquerque, New Mexico ( Judges Choice Award),

2002 Touring Costa Rica, “911 Artist React”,

2002 International Quilt Festival, Journal Quilts, Houston, Texas,

2002 International Quilt Festival ,” World of Beauty”, Houston, Texas,

2002 Pratt Institute of Art , “Dirty Girls”, New York city, New York

2001 International Quilt Festival, “ America From the Heart”, Houston, Texas-

EDUCATION

B.F.A. Queens University, Kingston, Canada, 1982

FURTHER STUDY

Lucky Shie Art Camp, 2001


PUBLICATIONS

Muse Zine: “How Do Artists Get Their Ideas?” July 2002

Artella Magazine: Issue 1 2002, Issue 2, 2002, Issue 4 2003, issue E-1 “In the Studio-Interview with Pamela Allen”2003

Quilting Arts Magazine: “ Embellishing with attitude”, by Pamela Allen, issue23, fall 2006, pg.20-25

Quilting Arts Magazine: “Judges Choice” Issue 11, Fall 2003 pg. 72

Quilting Arts Magazine: “Outside the Box” Issue 12, Winter 2003

Quilting Arts Magazine: “Pamela Allen In the Spotlight”, Summer 2004

Quilting Arts Magazine “Judges choice”, Fall 2004

Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, Quilts: 35 years of Inspiration, October 2006 Contemporary Quilters, , Invited to Show Latest and Greatest, pg.17

September 2004, “Quilt Show”, June 2005, summer 2008, MEETIN’ PLACE

Canadian Quilters Magazine, Winter 2004. “Kids Quilting”, by Pamela Allen, Fall 2006, National Quilt Show winners,

We’ve been Pamelized, spring 2008

I REMEMBER MAMA, 2005, book written by Karey Bresenhan of Quilts Inc.

A Needle Pulling Thread, Premiere issue 2005,Designers in the Spotlight

QA Journal, summer 2006 newsletter, Celebrate Spring Winners

Journal of the International Quilt Association, Fall 2006, International Spotlight, Pamela Allen

A PAGE FROM MY BOOK: The 2007 Journal Quilt Project, Quilting Arts magazine, Feb/Mar 2008, pg.87

THE MASTERS; ART QUILTS, Larkbooks, Publisher,

 

DVD THINK LIKE AN ARTIST, Nine Patch Media, Courtney, B.C.


EDUCATION

Bachelor of Fine Art, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada