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EXHIBITIONS
2008
Charleston Heights Art Center, Las Vegas, NV, Betty Vera: Ephemeral Expressions
2007
Queens College Art Center, New York, Between: Woven Images by Betty Vera
1998
Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Layers of Meaning: Fiber Art by Betty Vera
1996
Indigo Gallery, Portland, OR, Weavings and Dreamings: A Celebration of Textile Art
1993
Bergen Museum of Art & Science, Paramus, NJ
1991
Westchester Gallery, Westchester, NY
Kleinert Arts Center, Woodstock, NY
Holden Gallery, Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY, Woven Stories: Contemporary Tapestries
Courtyard Gallery, World Financial Center, New York, Crossing Lines: The Many Faces of Fiber
Hardee Center for the Arts, North Florida Community College, Madison, FL, Silent Spaces
Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY, Threaded
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, Fiberart International
2010
Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY, Northeast Regional Contemporary Fiber
Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA, Terra Entwined
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts / Society for Contemporary Craft, Fiberart International 2010
Esvelt Gallery, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA, Media Mix
Harper College, Palatine, IL, Small Works, 33rd Annual National Juried Art Exhibition
Concordia University Ann Arbor, Kreft Center for the Arts, Creative Adaptation in the Visual Arts
2009
Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR, Environs
2008
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Contemporary Fiber
Clifton Arts Center, Clifton, NJ, Interwoven Influences
2007
Art House, McAllen, TX, New Frontiers: An Exhibition of Contemporary Fiber Art
The Arts Guild of Rahway, NJ, High Fiber Content
2006–08
9thInternational Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, and traveling
2005
Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter, NY, Pulse: Contemporary Artists Working in Fiber
2004
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, Textile Study Group of New York, Fiber for the Future
Montgomery Center for the Arts, Skillman, NJ, Ingenuity and Diversity in Fiber Arts
2002
White Box - The Annex, New York, Montclair State University M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition
2001
Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY, Fantastic Fibers
2000
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY, The Nature of Fiber
Phoenix Gallery, New York, The Textile Study Group of New York
1999
Freundorfer Gallery, New York, The Contemporary Landscape
Lancaster Museum of Art, PA, National Crafts 1999
New York State Museum, Albany, Contemporary New York State Crafts
1998
American Craft Museum, New York, 9x9x3 (traveling exhibit, 1999–2001)
American Craft Museum, New York, Urban Textures (Featured Guest Artist)
Gayle Willson Gallery, Southampton, NY, The Elements
1997
Gallery of South Orange, Baird Cultural Center, South Orange, NJ, Visions in Fiber
New York State Museum, Albany, Contemporary New York State Crafts
Arts Iowa City, Iowa City, IA, Paper/Fiber XX
1996
Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, Craft Forms ’96
Academy of the Arts, Easton, MD, Fiber Arts Invitational: A New Look at an Old Craft
1995
Meadows Gallery, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX, Materials: Hard & Soft
Gallery North, Setauket, NY, Textile ’95 (Third Place Award)
Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, Craft America ’95
1994
Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, NY, Chautauqua International for Fiber Art
1993
Mitchell Museum (IL) & Evansville (IN) Museum, Past & Present: Ongoing Traditions in American Craft Art
1992
Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences, NH, Fiber Arts / New Directions for the ’90s
1991
Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, The Fabric of Life
1990
The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, Handmade for the ’90s
Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ, Fiber As Art
The Center for Tapestry Arts, New York, New York Tapestry Artists
Craft Alliance, St. Louis, Perspective: A View of Things in the Craft Media
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Artist Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) Strategic Opportunity Stipend, New York Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts Best in Show, Fiber for the Future Excellence in Sculpture Award (Graduate Student), Montclair State University Ruth Chenven Award, Ruth Chenven Foundation Jurors’ Award, Craft Forms ’96 Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center New York State Craft Artist Grant, Empire State Crafts Alliance Artists Space New York State Craft Artist Grant, Empire State Crafts Alliance Fiber Art Today, by Carol K. Russell, Schiffer Books Surface Design Journal, Summer 2007, “Informed Source” Fabrics: A Guide for Interior Designers and Architects, by Marypaul Yates, W.W. Norton, New York Surface Design Journal, Fall 2001, work illustrated in “Interactions,” by Virginia Davis Fiberarts Design Book Si x, Altamont Press, Asheville, NC Weaving for Worship, by Joyce Harter & Lucy Brusic, Robin & Russ, McMinnville, OR Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, Spring 1998, “Gallery” Surface Design Journal, Spring 1997, work illustrated in “Exposure” Fiberarts, Nov/Dec, “Betty Vera Commissioned by Japanese Hotel” Fiberarts Design Book Five, Altamont Press, Asheville, NC International Tapestry Network Journal, Winter, “Bojana Leznicki & Betty Vera: Recent Tapestries.” Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, Winter, work illustrated in “Fiber Arts/New Directions for the Nineties” Fiberarts, Sept./Oct., “Betty Vera: The Woven Record of an Inner Landscape” COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
Hotel Kitano, New York
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Walbro Corporation, Cass City, MI
Palisades Presbyterian Church, Palisades, NY
Private collections: New York; Boston; Philadelphia; San Francisco; Pittsburgh; Washington, DC; Scottsdale, AZ;
Westport, CT; Deer Isle, ME; Princeton, NJ
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AWARDS, GRANTS, AND RESIDENCIES
2010
Director’s Award, Fiberart International 2010
Silvio and Eugenia Petrini Grant, Handweavers Guild of America2010, 2009
2004
2002
1997
New York State Craft Artist Grant, Empire State Crafts Alliance1996
1994
Handweavers Guild of America Award, Fiber at the End of the Century1991
Project Grant, Artists Space, New York1990
1988
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PUBLICATIONS
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2002
2001
1999
1998
1998
American Craft, Feb/Mar 1998, “Acquisitions”1997
1996
Interiors, February, commissioned tapestry illustrated in “The Kitano New York Hotel”1995
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1992–93
1991
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