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Exhibitions |
Group Shows |
Collections and Commissions Awards, Grants and Residencies | Publications |
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| EXHIBITIONS | |
| 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 | |
| 2007 | The Arts Guild of Rahway, NJ, High Fiber Content |
| 2006 | 9thInternational Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, and traveling |
| 2005 | Catskill Mountain Foundation Gallery, 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 (Best in Show) |
| 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 | |
| Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY, Fiber Now: Contemporary Textile Art | |
| 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 (Jurors’ Award) |
| 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 |
| Corvallis Arts Center, Corvallis, OR, Fiber at the End of the Century (HGA Award) | |
| 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 (Honorable Mention) | |
| 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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| 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 | |
| 2004 | Best in Show, Fiber for the Future |
| 2002 | Excellence in Sculpture Award (Graduate Student), Montclair State University |
| 1997 | Ruth Chenven Award, Ruth Chenven Foundation |
| New York State Craft Artist Grant, Empire State Crafts Alliance | |
| 1996 | Jurors’ Award, Craft Forms ’96 |
| 1994 | Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center |
| Handweavers Guild of America Award, Fiber at the End of the Century | |
| 1991 | New York State Craft Artist Grant, Empire State Crafts Alliance |
| Project Grant, Artists Space, New York | |
| 1990 | Artists Space |
| 1988 | New York State Craft Artist Grant, Empire State Crafts Alliance |
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| PUBLICATIONS | |
| 2002 | Fabrics: A Guide for Interior Designers and Architects, by Marypaul Yates, W.W. Norton, New York |
| 2001 | Surface Design Journal, Fall 2001, work illustrated in “Interactions,” by Virginia Davis |
| 1999 | Fiberarts Design Book Six, Altamont Press, Asheville, NC |
| 1998 | Weaving for Worship, by Joyce Harter & Lucy Brusic, Robin & Russ, McMinnville, OR |
| 1998 | Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, Spring 1998, “Gallery” |
| American Craft, Feb/Mar 1998, “Acquisitions” | |
| 1997 | Surface Design Journal, Spring 1997, work illustrated in “Exposure” |
| 1996 | Fiberarts, Nov/Dec, “Betty Vera Commissioned by Japanese Hotel” |
| Handwoven, May/June, “Memory Garden Tapestry Installed” | |
| Interiors, February, commissioned tapestry illustrated in “The Kitano New York Hotel” | |
| 1995 | Fiberarts Design Book Five, Altamont Press, Asheville, NC |
| 1993–1994 | International Tapestry Network Journal, Winter, “Bojana Leznicki & Betty Vera: Recent Tapestries.” |
| Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, Winter, “Gallery” | |
| 1992–1993 | Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, Winter, work illustrated in “Fiber Arts/New Directions for the Nineties” |
| 1991 | Fiberarts, Sept./Oct., “Betty Vera: The Woven Record of an Inner Landscape” |
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