Elizabeth Ann Garlington's Gallery

About this Gallery:

E L I Z A B E T H   G A R L I N G T O N    A r t i s t   V i t a e     

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Elizabeth Garlington’s sassy, narrative quilts can hold their own anywhere.  The Atlanta Journal Constitution

2008     Southern Highland Craft Guild Member  Fiber

Selected Exhibitions

2012  

Focus Gallery, Folk Art Center, Southern Highland Craft Guild,  Asheville, NC

2011

11th Annual Survivor’s Art Show, The Artery (Asheville Area Arts Council), Asheville, NC  

April 2011 National Sexual Assault Awareness Month.  www.ourvoicenc.org

2010    

Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands, Asheville, NC,  July 2010

Focus Gallery, Folk Art Center, Southern Highland Craft Guild, Asheville, NC

Co-exhibit with David Shombert. Invitational

Haywood Open Studio Tour (HOST), October 1-2, 2010.

Artist-in-Residence, Vanderbilt University, Sarratt Studio Program, Nashville

Thin Space, Vanderbilt University, Nashville. Invitational

2009      

Art Quilts and Handmade Books, Art on Depot, Waynesville, NC.  Invitational

Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands, October 15-18, 2009  Southern Highland Craft Guild, Asheville, NC

A Better Home, exhibited thru 2010, The Appalachian Regional Commission, Washington, DC.

Sponsored by the Southern Highland Craft Guild. Invitational

2008       

Collage on Fiber and Board, Jackson County Arts Council, Sylva, NC.  Invitational

2007      

Phenomena Boxes, Haywood County Public Library, Waynesville, NC.  Invitational    

2006       

Focus 2006: Art Quilts, Humble, TX

The Temple Arts Festival, The Temple, Nashville.  Juried

2005      

The Temple Arts Festival, The Temple, Nashville. Juried

Quilted Cloth: A Prayer for Healing, Nashville.  Solo Exhibition                 

2002      

Healing Story, Healing Quilt, Nashville.  Solo Exhibition

Quilted Cloth: A Prayer for Healing, Gainesville, FL.  Invitational                 

ArtClectic, University School of Nashville.  Juried                                  

Quilted Cloth: Comfort in Community, Nashville.  Solo Exhibition      

American Artisan Festival, Nashville.  Invitational

2001       

Common Threads, Nashville.  Solo Exhibition

Random Threads, Madison, TN.  Solo Exhibition

Teach Your Children, Nashville.  Solo Exhibition

2000       

Who’s Coming to Dinner? Metro AIDS Project, Charlotte, NC  Gaetan Dugas as Patient Zero.  Solo Exhibition

1999      

Discourse: Outside the Box, Charlotte/Douglas International Airport.  Charlotte, NC.  Juried

Hooped Dreams & Fabrications, The Swan Coach House & Gallery,  Atlanta.  Invitational

1998      

Work at Hand: Contemporary Beadwork & Quilts, The Signature Shop & Gallery, Atlanta.  Invitational

Art Walk: Fiber as a Medium in Southern Art, Atlanta.  Invitational

Artists of Southeastern North Carolina, St. John’s Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC. Juried

Selected Regional Collections

2005  Twelve Tribes  ©  2006  Temple Ohabai Shalom, Nashville

2005  Very Old Stories  ©  2006  Temple Ohabai Shalom, Nashville

2006  Tosca’s Story  ©  2001  Lower Cape Fear Hospice, Wilmington, NC

2005  Quilted Cloth: A Prayer for Healing   ©  2001  St. Thomas Medical Center, Nashville

2004  The Passage Quilt  ©   2002   Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, Nashville

2003  Teach Your Children  ©  2001  Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville

2000  Common Threads  ©  1999  WTVI Public Television, Charlotte, NC

1999  My Patchwork Fish  ©  1998  Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta

1998  Ode to Gloria  ©  1997  Lower Cape Fear Hospice, Wilmington NC

1998  Sweet Lorraine  ©  1997  New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Wilmington, NC

Selected Bibliography

Bon, M. (1999, May 5).  Creating Comfort: Quilt Show Raises Money for Hospice.

     Star News, p. 1E.  Wilmington, NC.

Davis, A. (1999, March 24).  Former Buckhead Quilting Artist Revisits Swan

     Coach House.  The Northside Neighbor, p. 1E.  Atlanta, GA.

Doba, J. (1998, January 8).  When Craft Takes an Art Form.  Star News, pp. 1D, 3D. 

     Wilmington, NC.

The Guild: Designers Sourcebook #14, Art for the Wall, Furniture, & Accessories (1998).

Doba, J. (1998, July 19).  Creative Marketing.  Star News, pp. 1D, 8D.  Wilmington, NC.

Johnson, T. (1998, June 24).  Vibrant Fiber Art on Display at Lenox Square. 

     The Atlanta Journal Constitution, p. 2E.  Atlanta, GA.

Lawrence, L. (1998, September/October).  Artful Dining; Sweet Support of the Arts

     in Atlanta.  American Style, No. 14, p. 75.  Baltimore, MD.

Leonard, P. (1998, July 31).  Bead, Quilt Show Driven by Spirit of Experimentation. 

     The Atlanta Journal Constitution, p. 1F.  Atlanta, GA.

Nolan, K. (2002, September 16). One Year Later: Art Helps to Heal. 

     The Vanderbilt Hustler, Nashville, TN.

Selected Visiting Artist Presentations

2010   Southern Highland Craft Guild, Education Demonstrator

2005  Very Special Arts, Biloxi, MS

2004  The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS

2002  Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN

2002  Metropolitan-Nashville Public Schools, Nashville, TN

2001  Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

2001  Scarritt-Bennett Center for VUMC Department of Parish Nursing, Nashville, TN

2000  Mecklenburg County Public Schools, Charlotte, NC

2000  Who’s Coming to Dinner? Metro AIDS Project, Charlotte, NC

1999  Mint Museum of Art, for North Carolina Arts Education Association, Charlotte, NC

1999  Fiber Artists Guild of Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

1999  Gaston County AIDS Council, AIDS Memorial Quilt, Gastonia NC

1999  The AIDS Memorial Quilt/The Names Project, Sponsored by UNCC, Charlotte, NC

1998  The Swan Coach House & Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1998  Healing Arts Network, New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Wilmington, NC

1998  Lower Cape Fear Hospice, Wilmington, NC

1998  St. John’s Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC

Professional Conferences

2005   Very Special Arts, Mississippi Arts Commission, Biloxi, MS

2002   Society for the Arts in Healthcare, Annual Conference, Gainesville, FL.

1999   Common Threads: Creating a Cloth for Empowerment.

           Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.

1998   Bridging Two Worlds: Taking Our Private Art Public, Seattle WA. Sponsored by   

           the Contemporary Quilt Art Association. 

           Conference attended as North Carolina Arts Council Grant Reward Recipient.

          Making it in the New Millennium, American Craft Council, Southeastern Regional               

          Conference, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN