Artist Resume               Diane Savona  

                                                            

                      Winner of 2009 NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship

  Winner of Center For Emerging Artists (CFEVA) 2009 Fellowship

Exhibitions:

2011   Gleanings, group show at the Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ

2010   Closet Archaeology (one woman show),Hermitage Museum, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ

FiberArts Magazine, April issue, cover and 4 page article

Piecework Magazine, May/June 2010 issue; photo of work

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

                  Inclusion in 500 Art Quilts, by Lark Books

             Cover art for book published by The Calandra Institue

Art In The Open Philadelphia, June

2009   Sculpted & Sewn (2 person show) Georgian Court University, NJ

             Eileen Tognini's Studio 214  Philadelphia, PA

Introduction 09 CFEVA Fellows, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

     Morgan, Lewis & Brockius, Philadelphia, PA

     New Year, New Yearnings, Watchung Art Center, NJ

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

     Narrative Art, Watchung Art Center, NJ

    Seen Anew, Washington Art Center, CT

    Threads, Gallery 125, Trenton, NJ

     Evolution 20 @10, Rahway Art Center, NJ

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

            Threadlines, MSU, Springfield, MO (3rd place winner)

            NJNJ Arts Annual, NJ State Museum, Trenton, NJ             

            Fabulous Fiber  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  Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ

            One woman show at Educational Testing Services in Princeton, NJ

            Winter Residency Show  Peters Valley Craft Center

   Craftforms, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA

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

2007    Residency, Peters Valley Art Center with Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation scholarship

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

     Featured in PBS video The Art of Quilting

     Craftforms 2007, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA

     Clothing as Metaphor (invitational) Edna Carlsten Gallery, University 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

             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)

             Fiber Revolution, Slater Memorial Museum, CT

             JFVS show, Edison, NJ

     Every Picture tells a Story, Northbrook, Illinois

             New Jersey Arts Annual, Morristown Museum, NJ

     Fiber Revolution, Bridgewater, CT

     Surface Tension, Kean College, Union, NJ

   

2005    Quilt shown in Piecework magazine

             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

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

2003    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:

            Peters Valley workshop

            Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY, workshop

            Kean College, Union, NJ workshop and slide presentation

            Long Island Quilters workshop

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

            Slide presentation of my work for Women’s Study Colloquium, Colby College, ME, The 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

            www.dianesavonaart.com   157 Marietta Ave Passaic, NJ, 07055    (973) 773-1468 

                                              Dianesavona@aol.com