Education
Born Los Angeles CA, 1944
BA, Stanford University, 1966
Teaching Credential, California State University at Fullerton, 1968
MFA, San Francisco State University, 1993
Representation
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Stage 3, Sonora CA
2010 San Francisco State University, Alumni Gallery, San Francisco CA
2007 Columbia College, Columbia CA
2007 Featured Quilter, Sierra Quilt Guild Annual Show, Sonora CA
2002 Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco CA
1999 Cafe Sumatra, Twain Harte CA
1998 C/S Bath, San Francisco CA
1996-98 Lalime’s Restaurant, Berkeley, CA
1993 MFA Show, San Francisco State University, San Francisco CA
1992 Coyote Gallery, Butte College, Oroville CA
1991 East Bay Chapter, American Institute of Architects, Oakland CA
1989-90 Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto and Cupertino CA
1989 Ventura College Art Galleries, Ventura CA
1987 Charleston Heights Arts Center, Las Vegas NV
1986 World College West, Marin County CA
Group Exhibitions
2011 “Poem: Non-Representational Art,” ACCI Gallery, Berkeley CA
2011 “Text and Texture,” Gallery 48 Natoma, Folsom CA
2011 “Fiber Enriched,” Eureka Museum of Art, Eureka CA
2011 “Fiber 2011,” ACCI Gallery, Berkeley CA
2011 “California Currents,” East Bay MUD, Oakland CA
2011 “Fiber Optics,” Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield CA
2010 “Five Artists,” Phoenix Gallery, NYC
2010 “By Hand,” Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga CA
2010 California Fiber Artists, Gallery 625, Woodland CA
2010 “Fiber 2010,” ACCI Gallery, Berkeley CA
2010 “Fantastic Fibers, 2010,” Yeiser Art Center, Paducah KY
2010 “500 Art Quilts” Exhibition, International Quilt Festival, Houston TX
2010 California Fiber Artists, Chico Art Center, Chico CA
2010 “Innovations in Fiberarts V,” Sebastopos Center for the Arts, Sebastopol CA
2009 “Centralism,” Gallery 25, Fresno CA
2009 “Bold Expressions,” Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Sacramento CA
2009 “5th Annual CA Fiber Arts Exhibit,” Santa Cruz Art League, CA (juror Deborah Corsini)
2009 “Chaos Exhibition,” award of merit, Long Beach Arts, CA (juror Scott Ward)
2009 “National Fiber Directions,” Wichita Center for the Arts, KS
2009 California Fiber Artists, Gallery 625, Woodland CA
2009 “Surface Matters,” Kansas City MO
2009-10 “Reflections,” Birmingham, England and traveling (juror Laura Cater-Woods)
2008 “California Open Exhibition,” Long Beach Arts, CA
2008 “Contemporary Abstracts,” ACCI Gallery, Berkeley CA
2008 “Art Quilts Lowell 2008,” Brush Art Gallery, Lowell MA
2008 “Art Quilt Show,” O’Hanlon Center for Arts, Mill Valley CA
2008 “National Juried Exhibition,” ACCI Gallery, Berkeley CA
2008 “40th Annual Textile Art Exhibit,” Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA
2008 “Clay and Fiber, WomanMADE Gallery, Chicago IL
2008 “Up in Stitches,” Yeiser Art Center, Paducah KY
2007-8 Vale Art Gallery, Chicago IL
2007-8 “Fiberart International 2007,” Pittsburgh PA (jurors: Dorothy Caldwell, Naomi Kobayashi, Lois Moran)
2007-10 “Sum of the Parts,” Surface Design Association’s International Conference, Kansas City MO and traveling
2007 Guest Artist, “Thread Count” Show, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley CA
2007 “New Quilts of Northern CA,” PIQF, Santa Clara CA
2007 “National Juried Craft Exhibition,” ACCI Gallery, Berkeley CA (jurors: Carol Beadle and Virginia Breier)
2007 “Form, Not Function,” Carnegie Center, New Albany IN
2006-08 “Expressions: The Art Quilt,” La Veta CO and traveling USA
2006-08 “Transformations: Artists Working with Fiber,” Birmingham, England and traveling throughout USA
2006 “Mixed Blessings,” Art Harvest, Sacramento CA
2006 “Valley Threads: New Perspectives in Traditional Craft,” Merced CA
2006 “Textile Arts Today,” Synopsys Inc., Mountain View CA
2005-06 “California Masters,” Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz CA
2001-03 “Quilted Constructions,” American Folk Art Museum, NYC and traveling to Nagoya, Japan, Youngstown OH, Ft. Wayne IN, and Calgary, Canada.
1999 “Women's Art Show,” Columbia College, Columbia CA
1995-98 American Cultural Center, Taiwan
1994-98 North Berkeley Library Quilt Shows, Berkeley CA
1992 “Fiber Art,” Maveety Gallery, Salishan OR
1991 “Bay Area Emerging Artists,” Alligator Gallery, San Francisco CA
1991 “Focus: Contemporary Quilts,” Banaker Gallery, Walnut Creek CA
1991 “Originals: Innovations in Contemporary Quilts,” Auburn CA
1990-94 “Contemporary Quilts USA,” Boston University 1987 show traveling in Yugoslavia, Spain, Portugal, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Greece, England, Poland, The Netherlands, and Germany
1990 International Textile Design Contest, Tokyo, Japan
1990 “Leslie Carabas, Peggy Moulton & Joanna Lindsley,” Davis Art Center, Davis CA
1990 “The Artist as Quiltmaker IV,” FAVA Gallery, Oberlin OH (juror: Terry Hancock Mangat)
1990 “Quake of '89,” New Pieces Gallery, Berkeley CA
1990 “Quilts as Art,” Mill Valley Art Commission, Mill Valley CA
1990 “Mostly Black & White,” The Craftsman's Gallery, Scarsdale NY
1990 “California Works,” California State Fair (jurors: Harriet Berman, Jud Fine, Kathryn Funk)
1990 Retrospective Gallery, La Jolla CA
1989 “Living on the Edge: Quilts & Drawings,” Arizona State Univ, Tempe AZ
1989 “Fiber Invitational,” Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk NY
1988 “The Artist as Quiltmaker,” FAVA Gallery, Oberlin OH (juror: Judy Warren)
1988 “Design '88,” Showplace Design Center, San Francisco CA (jurors: Kenneth Trapp, Meredith Tromble, Michael Miller)
1988 “Greater Midwest International,” Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg MO (juror: Roy Slade)
1988 “Celebration 47,” Cedar City UT (juror: Dan E. Burke)
1988 “3COM Art Show,” Mountain View CA
1988 “Quilt Show '88,” Lawrence Gallery, Glendon Beach OR
1988 “The Quilt: New Directions,” Sun Gallery, Hayward CA
1987 “Quilt National '87,” SEO Cultural Arts Center, Athens OH (jurors: Gerhardt Knodel, Penny McMorris, Jan Myers)
1987 “Beyond Power—A Celebration,” San Mateo Arts Council, Belmont CA (jurors:Rena Bransten, Judith Bettelheim, Eleanor Dickenson, Jo Hanson)
1987 “Contemporary Quilts,” Boston University Art Gallery (jurors: Faith Ringgold, Annie Shaver-Crandell, Nancy Halpern, Arlette Klaric)
1987 “Quilts: Tradition & Innovation,” Society for Arts in Crafts, Pittsburgh PA
1987 “Leslie Carabas/Marla Gunderson/Fiber,” Center for Contemporary Art, Kansas City Artists' Coalition, MO
1987 “Witchita National 1987,” Witchita Art Association, KS
1987 “California Works,” California State Fair (jurors: Kathy Erteman, Kenneth Trapp, Edith Wyle)
1987 “Contemporary Quilts,” American Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose CA
1987 “Paper/Fiber X,” The Arts Center, Iowa City IA (juror: Nance O'Banion)
1987 “American Quilter's Society Show,” Paducah KY
1986-87 “Five Artists: Quilts,” San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and traveling to Macon GA, Huston TX, Palo Alto and Stockton CA
1986 “Exibition '86,” Sun Gallery, Hayward CA (jurors: Misch Kohn, Marilyn da Silva, Jim Mitchell, Russel Moore, Sam Richardson)
1986 “Utah Designer Craftsmen 25th Annual,” Salt Lake Art Center UT (jurors: Gerhardt Knodel, David Sofer)
1986 “Kaleidoscope of Quilts,” Children's Home Society, Oakland CA
1986 “All California Biennial Juried Exhibition,” Riverside Art Center CA (juror: Joan Hugo)
1986 “Space: New Form, New Function,” Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg TN (juror: Ken Holder)
1985 “EBHQ Quilts,” Gutcheon Patchworks, New York City NY
1984 “Emerging Quiltmakers,” Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus OH
1984 “From the Hands of Women,” San Francisco Women Artists' Gallery (juror: Inez Brooks-Myers)
1983-84 “Breaking with Tradition,” Centennial Gallery, Oakville, Ontario and traveling in Canada (jurors: Nancy Crow, Gloria Rosenburg, Victor Tinkl)
1983 “California Works,” California State Fair (jurors: George Neubert, Margaret Keelan, John Garrett)
1982 “Quilts:A tradition of Variations,” Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland CA
1982 “Three Contemporary Quiltmakers,” Trinity Art Gallery, Berkeley CA
1981 “Quilt National '81,” SEO Cultural Arts Center, Athens OH (jurors: Daniel Butts, Diane Itter, Nancy Crow)
1978-2010 East Bay Heritage Quilters’ Shows, Oakland CA
Awards
1992 Stillwell Fellowship, San Francisco State University
1990 Semi-Finalist in Surface Design, International Textile Design Contest, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Award of Merit, California State Fair
1987 Award of Merit, California State Fair
1983 Fifth Award, California State Fair
Art Related Employment
1988-now Teacher/Lecturer on fiber techniques, California quilt guilds, Sew Country Fabrics, Sonora CA and Cotton Patch Fabrics, Lafayette CA
1988 Juror, Marin Quilt Festival
1986-87 Curator, “Five Artists: Quilts,” San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, traveling USA
1982 Co-editor, “Quilts: A Tradition of Variation” catalog
1976-80 Owner/Manager, Patience Corners Fabric Store, Albany CA
Publications: Books and Catalogs
Surface Design Journal, Gallery Issue, September 1, 2006
Fashion Foundation, The International Textile Design Contest, Tokyo, Japan, 1990
Arlette Klaric, Contemporary Quilts USA, Boston University Art Gallery, 1990
Roberta Horton, Plaids & Stripes, C&T Publishing, 1990
Quilts: 1989 Calendar, Landmark Calendars, 1988
Fiber Expressions: The Contemporary Quilt, Schiffer Publishing, 1987
Michael Kile and Rod Kiracofe, The Quilt Digest Press, 1986
Hands All Around, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984
The Great American Log Cabin Book, E.P. Dutton, 1984
Michael Kile and Rod Kiracofe, The Quilt Digest Press, 1983
East Bay Heritage Quilters, Quilts: A Tradition of Variations, 1982
Publications: Reviews and Articles
Suzannah Schatt, Folk Art Magazine, “Quilted Constructions: The Spirit of Design,” Fall 2001
The Union Democrat, “Quilt Patterns Take New Shape,” Aug. 5, 1999
Jim Leitzell, The Union Democrat,“Exhibit Gives Recognition to Women,” Mar.12, 1999
Carol Jessen, Quilting International, “In My Opinion...The Art Versus Craft Debate Revisited,” Nov. 1993
Anna I. McClain, Diablo Magazine, “Ordinary Genius: Artists Who Transform Everyday Crafts into Fine Art for the Home,” Sept. 1991
Carol Jessen, Fiberarts, “Stitches That Do More Than Bind,” Nov/Dec 1991
Carol Fowler, Contra Costa Times, “New Art Exhibits Spotlight Quilts,” July 29, 1991
Marilyn Moyle, Davis Enterprise, “Fine Crafts Dominate Gallery Scene,” Feb. 15, 1990
Las Vegas Review-Journal, “Colorful Quilts on Display in LV,” Aug. 2, 1987
Margo Ernst, The Stockton Record, “Short Quilt Show Is a Work of Art,” Sept 13, 1987
Jessica Scarborough, Fiberarts, “Five Artists: Quilts,” Sept/Oct 1986
Kathleen Rowley, Fiberarts, “Quilts: A Tradition of Variations,” Mar/Apr 1983