Artist Resume               Diane Savona  

                                                            

Exhibitions:

2012  curating group show, Mending=Art, at Gershman Gallery, Philadelphia PA

   3 person show at the Perkins Gallery, Collingswood, NJ

2011  Gleanings,  Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ

   One woman show, Hollandia International, Philadelphia, PA

         Connecting Threads , Trenton, NJ

         Studio Montclair group show

   2 person show, UU Gallery, in Rock Tavern, NY

2010  FiberArts Magazine, April issue, cover and article

         PieceWork Magazine, May/June 2010 issue, photo

    Closet Archaeology, one woman show, Hermitage Museum, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ

         500 Art Quilts, by Lark Books ( FOSSIL STRATA #2)

         Cover art for book published by The Calandra Institute

   Art In The Open (AiO) Philadelphia

   AiO Exhibition at City Hall,  AiO Exhibition at UArt's Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

  Re-Purposed Textiles, 3 person show, Speakeasy Gallery, Boonton, NJ

   from the archives, 3 person show, CFEVA Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

   Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY

         Sew New: Contemporary Quilt Artists, Tarrytown, NY

         One woman show, Cottage Place Gallery, Ridgewood NJ

2009   NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship winner

   Center For Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA) Fellowship winner

          NJ Public Television segment featuring my work in NJ Arts Annual 

          2 person show at Eileen Tognini’s Studio 214 in the Skybox Gallery, Philadelphia

          2 person show, Sculpted & Sewn, Georgian Court University Gallery, Lakewood, NJ

          NJ Arts Annual, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ (3 pieces)

          NJ Arts Annual, NJ State Museum, Trenton, NJ (2 pieces)

          The Exchange, Pittsburgh Center of the Arts

          Introduction ’09 at Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA

    Evolution 20 @10 Rahway Art Guild, Rahway, NJ

    Lincoln 200, Philadelphia, PA

    Seen Anew, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT            

    New Year, New Yearnings at Watchung Arts Center, NJ

    Threads Gallery 125, Trenton, NJ

2008   Form Not Function Best in Show Carnegie Center, New Albany, Indiana

          Threadlines, MSU, Springfield, MO 3rd place winner

          Fabulous Fiber at the Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ

          Seams: Contemporary Art to Wear, Noyes Museum of Art

(photograph in NJ Savvy magazine)

          New Jersey Arts Annual, Montclair Museum, Montclair, NJ (4 pieces)

          Currents at William Patterson University, NJ

          Studio 6 at Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ

          One woman show at Educational Testing Services in Princeton, NJ

          Winter Residency Show at Peters Valley Craft Center

    Craftforms, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA

          Recycled/Rethought (invitational) Westmoreland Museum of Art, Youngwood, PA

2007   Featured in PBS video The Art of Quilting

          Residency, Peters Valley Art Center with Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation scholarship

    Pulp Function at Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA (photograph in American Craft magazine)

    Craftforms 2007, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA

    Clothing as Metaphor (invitational) Edna Carlsten Gallery, Univ of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

          Small Works show, Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ

    Gallery 31 North, Glen Gardner, NJ

2006   Art Quilts at the Sedgwick, Philadelphia, PA

          One woman show, Language of the Cloth, St. Peter’s Church Gallery, Lexington Ave, NYC

          New Jersey Arts Annual, Morristown Museum, NJ

          Off The Rack (4 artist invitational) Rahway Arts Guild, NJ

          Small Works show, Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ

          Beyond the Stitch II, Ocean County Artist’s Guild, NJ

          Fine Focus, Houston, TX (traveling)

          JFVS show, Edison, NJ

    Every Picture tells a Story, Northbrook, Illinois

    Surface Tension, Kean College, Union, NJ

   

2005   Piecework magazine feature

          One woman show, Lambert Castle Museum, Paterson, NJ

          Threads of Story (3 artist invitational) Bloomfield College, NJ

          Fiber Directions, Wichita, KS

          Mixed Media Quilts, Guilford Craft Center, CT

          Small Works show, Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ

          As She Sees It (8 artist invitational) Pierro Gallery of South Orange, NJ

          Trashformations, the Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA 

2004   Art of the Quilt, Boothbay Harbor Quilt Festival, Boothbay, MA

2003-4 Quilts for Art’s Sake, Makeready Press Gallery, Montclair, NJ

          One woman show, Hamilton House Museum, Montclair, NJ

          Smithtown Township Quilt Show, Smithtown, NY

          Organized group show Angry Needles, the Simmons Gallery, Boston, MA

Education:

BA in Fine Arts, Montclair State University.

Selected Professional Experience:

Newark Museum workshops

Peters Valley workshop

Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY workshop

Kean College, Union, NJ workshop and slide presentation

Long Island Quilters workshop

Director, Women’s Empowerment Quilt Project, Urban League, Jersey City

Slide presentation of my work for Women’s Study Colloquium, Colby College, ME, Women’s Festival in Morristown, NJ, Clifton Quilter’s Guild, Bergen County Embroidery Guild, NJ,  (with Miriam Milgrim) for Women’s Caucus for the Arts, NYC