About the Artist
LINKS National Paper Makers Organization Naropa University Art Dept, Boulder, CO Women Artists Film -Who Does She Think She Is? EDUCATION M.ED Tyler School of Art -Fibers, Philadelphia, PA 1986 Pyramid Atlantic, Prints and Paperworks, Silver Spring, MD 1981-89 Penland School, study with Pat Hickman & Lillian Elliott 1988 Basketry Focus, study with Dorothy Gill Barnes, British Columbia 1999
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Fiber Biennial, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia 2010 SOFA Chicago- Sculptural Objects and Functional Art, 2009 Snyderman Gallery The Paper Runway Houston Center for Contemporary Craft 2010 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago Chile 2010 Galeria La Sala, Santiago Chile 2009 Atlanta International Airport, 2009 Material Differences, Arkansas Valley Arts, Buena Vista, CO 2009 Contemporary Baskets Exhibition, Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2008 Off the Wall, Translation Gallery, Denver 2007 The Teapot Redefined, Mobelia Gallery, Cambridge MA 2007 Mystery Contained: Contemporary Sculptural Basketry, Craft Alliance Gallery St. Louis, MO 2007 Curator: Kate Anderson Beyond the Basket: Contemporary Work in Fiber, Metal & Wood, del Mano Gallery Los Angeles, CA 2007 SOFA Chicago, Del Mano Gallery, Mobelia Gallery, 2006 National Paper Juried Exhibition, Canal Warehouse, Chillicothe, Ohio 2006 Basketry International, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, 2006 Nat'l Basketry Org, Jurors: Jerry Bleem, JoAnn Kelly Catso Colorado's Small Stitches - Beads and Thread, Tointon Gallery, Greeley, CO 2007 Selected Works, Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles,CA 2007 Contemporary Baskets 2006, Del Mano Gallery, June 2006 Plane and Form, Contemporary Handmade Paper, Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, 2006 SOFA Chicago, Del Mano Gallery-Los Angeles, CA October, 2005 All Things Considered III, Biennial, National Basketry Organization North Tahoe Arts Gallery, Lake Tahoe, CA 2005 Fiber Directions 2005, Juror: Jason Pollen, Kansas City Art Institute Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas 2005 Crafts National 39, Juror: Jean McLaughlin, Penland School of Crafts Zoller Gallery, State College, PA 2005 Fiber Celebrated 2005, Juror: Linda Ligon, Interweave Press Intermountain Weavers, Durango, CO 2005 The Southwest School of Art and Craft, National Paper Exhibition, San Antonio Central Library, San Antonio, TX 2004 Explore Paper, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver CO 2004 Landmarks,The Landmark Center, Minneapolis, MN 2003 Sensory Experiments, Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO 2003 Paper as Art, Curtis Arts and Humanities Center, Denver, CO 2003 Art on and of Handmade Paper, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR 2002 Paper in the Millennium, Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta GA, 2000
AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS 500 Baskets, 2006 Lark Books Fiberarts Design Book VII, 2004 American Style magazine, Feature Winter 2010 The Crafts Report, Insight feature artist, February 2003 Best of Show, Paper in the Millennium, 2000 American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA NY Times, Sunday July 15, 1990 Review by Betty Freudenheim of work in Fiber As Art, juried by Lewis Knauss |
Jill Powers’ intriguing fiber panels and vessels are made of plant materials that have been harvested, cooked, cast into shapes, hand painted, and stitched. Her favorite material is a mulberry bark fiber called Kozo. Jill shows her work internationally, and it has been written about in the NY Times. Her work won Best of Show in the Millennium Show at the American Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta.