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Annual Faculty Exhibition

2018 Annual Faculty Exhibition in the University Gallery at the EMU Student Center, January- February 2018.

January 8 - February 9, 2018, 2018

Guns: Loaded Conversations

International juried exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles in San Jose, California, March 2017- December 2020.

Fiber Art Fair 2019

Excited to be a part of this international exhibition that will be in Seoul, South Korea.

HAND/EYE online magazine

Article about my artistic process and inspiration will be featured in the HAND/EYE online magazine for January 2018.

Mending Gold: With Reverence

Solo exhibition at George Fox University in the Minthorne Gallery, Newberg, Oregon, October 2017.

October 2 - 29, 2017

Making Futures Conference 2017

Presented Mending Gold: Mending Cultural Divides Through Craft in the Translations Across (Post-Colonial) Local-Global Divides session. September 20-22, 2017, Plymouth College of Art & Design, Plymouth, England.

September 20 - 22, 2017

Mending Gold: Careful Attention

Central Michigan University new acquisitions collection, July 2017, exhibited in the Library Gallery, Mount Pleasant, Michigan.

July 1 - 28, 2017

Artistry in Fiber: Vol. 2 Sculpture

Very pleased to be included in this great book highlighting Fiber sculpture.

June 1, 2017

Dialog of Distance

Curated an exhibition of American artists living in the Rust Belt and Balkan artists comparing and contrasting the way in which they create work. Exhibiting artists: Amy Sacksteder, Corrie Baldaulf, Jason Ferguson, Dorota Coy and Steve Coy, Olivia Valentine, Adrian Deva and Šehida Miftari.

April 5 - 28, 2017

MAD_Centre Gallery, POLIS University, Tirana, Albania April 2017.

Shifting Landscapes

3rd Annual SDA Juried International Fiber and Textile exhibition at the form + Concept Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, February 24- June 10, 2017.

February 24 - June 10, 2017, 2017

form + concept gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Women, Art and Fibers: Contemporary Responses to Abolition and the Journey North.

Juried exhibition at the CVPA Campus Gallery at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Curated by Dr. Memory Holloway and Laurie Steage, February-March 2017.

February 11 - March 31, 2017, 2017

CVPA Campus Gallery at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Annual Faculty Exhibition, University Gallery

Annual Faculty Exhibition, University Gallery, Student Center, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan.

January 11 - February 28, 2017, 2017

University Gallery, Student Center, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Material Connection

Mid-West Fiber Arts Educators Network exhibition, Kent State Gallery, November 2016, Kent, Ohio.

Surface Design Journal: Mending Gold: Longitude and Latitude

The Surface Design Journal included me in the Mending issue in the Made Aware inaugural section with my article Mending Gold: Longitude and Latitude.

Textile Fibre Forum: Mending As Metaphor

I was fortunate to have an article published in the fall 2016 issue of Textile Fibre Forum: Mending As Metaphor.

Textile Curator

On-line exhibition of my artwork on the Textile Curator's website that is dedicated to having monthly online exhibitions showing contemporary Fiber/Textile art.

November 1 - 30, 2016

www.textilecurator.com

Textile Fibre Forum, Mending As Metaphor

Mending Gold: Mending As Metaphor article written for Textile Fibre Forum an Australian published international magazine. December 2016

November 1, 2016

Surface Design Journal: Longitude & Latitude

Mending Gold: Longitude and Latitude- Article written for Surface Design Journal printed November 2016.

November 1, 2016

World of Threads 2016

International exhibition of contemporary Fiber art in Oakville and Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. October 28-November 30, 2016.

October 28 - November 30, 2016, 2016

International exhibition of contemporary Fiber art in Oakville and Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. October 28-November 30, 2016.

Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture- Exhibition review

Exhibition review, Let the Games Begin!, Gerhardt Knodel from
October -November 2015 at Wasserman Projects in Bloomington Hills, Michigan. This review was in the Spring issue of the Journal in 2016.

Mending Gold: Peninsular Paper Company, Peninsular Park, Ypsilanti, Michigan

Landscape mending at the Peninsular Paper Company power generator building that supplied power to several buildings along the Huron River including the Ypsilanti Underwear Company.

August 12 - 14, 2016

Peninsular Park, Ypsilanti, Michigan

Mending Gold: Leh Palace, Leh, Ladakh, India

Mending performed at the base of Leh Palace in the desert Himalayas in India, July 2016.

July 11 - 12, 2016

Leh, Ladakh, India, July 2016.

Workhouse Fiber National

National juried exhibition of contemporary fiber artwork.

May 28 - August 31, 2016, 2016

Opening Reception: June 11, 6 – 9 p.m. as part of the Workhouse Second Saturday Art Walk

Mending Gold: Bunker, Mount Dajti, Albania

Mending at one of the thousands of military bunkers in Albania.

May 14 - 15, 2016

Mount Dajti, Albania

Fiberart International 2016

Fiberart International 2016 will take place May 6- August 2016 in Pittsburgh, PA. The exhibition will have works on display at The Society for Contemporary Craft and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.

May 6 - August 12, 2016, 2016

Opening Reception:
May 06, 2016: 6:00PM - 9:00PM

Pittsburgh, PA.

Mending Gold,

Mending Gold: Solo Exhibition at MAD Centre Gallery, POLIS University, Tirana, Albania

May 2 - June 3, 2016, 2016

Connection: Fiber Art Network of Michigan

Fiber Arts Network of Michigan Members Juried Exhibition at Central Michigan University, Charles V. Park Library, Baber Gallery

March 2 - May 1, 2016, 2016

Central Michigan University, Charles V. Park Library, Baber Gallery.
March 2nd- May 1, 2016

Annual Faculty Exhibition

Annual Faculty exhibition at the University Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI.

January 11 - February 17, 2016, 2016

Arrowmont Pentaculum 2016

One week residency at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN

January 2 - 9, 2016

Invisible/VisABLE

Invisible/VisABLE

October 30 - November 27, 2015, 2015

Abernathy Arts Center Gallery Atlanta

All Media Exhibition

93 Annual All Media juried exhibition at the Ann Arbor Arts Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

October 24 - November 29, 2015, 2015

Ann Arbor Arts Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Gravity: Mothers of Fine Art

October 2 - 31, 2015

I Fell Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana

Miniature Textile Exhibition:

Miniature Textile Exhibition:Kent State University School of Art Downtown Gallery.

October 1 - 31, 2015

Kent State University School of Art Downtown Gallery

Materialities: Contemporary Textile Arts

Materialities: Contemporary Textile Arts is an international juried exhibition at the Arrowmont School of Art and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN.

September 28 - October 31, 2015, 2015

Sandra Blain Gallery, Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft, Gatlinburg, TN

Textile Art of Today

International juried exhibition of contemporary textile work. Beginning in the Bratislava Castle in Bratislava, Slovakia then traveling to Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. The exhibition will travel until February 2017.

September 18, 2015 - February 15, 2017

Opening Reception:
September 17, 2015: 12:00PM - 2:00AM

Alumni Exhibition, East Carolina University School of Art and Design

Alumni exhibition at the Grey Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.

September 4 - October 2, 2015, 2015

Extreme Fibers: Textile Legends and the New Edge

International juried exhibition of contemporary textiles/fiber work at the Muskegon Museum of Art and The Dennos Museum Center in Traverse City, Michigan

2:00AM on August 21, 2015 - March 25, 2016

Muskegon Museum of Art and The Dennos Museum Center in Traverse City

Adaptive Rituals

Solo exhibition at the MAD Gallery Centre, POLIS University, Tirana, Albania. This exhibition will include recent work based on close observations of daily rituals.

July 1 - 19, 2015

MAD CENTRE Gallery, POLIS University

DDC dances 35th Gala Performance

DDC presents a progressive performance event featuring:

Dance Artists - DDCdances, Harge Dance Stories, Miryam Johnson

Music/Dance Performances - Ursula Walker (Diva of Jazz in Detroit) & Buddy Budson; Dan Kolton, poet of the bass, performs with Ursula and Buddy and his original music for "Poetic Dream," choreographed by Barbara Selinger for DDC's Susan Clayton will be performed. "Dead Letters," also choreographed by Selinger and inspired by the art of Brooks Harris Stevens, visual artist, will be performed by DDC. Her work, "Letters of Lineage," will be exhibited in the foyer of the Carr. You don't want to miss this...EXCITING!

June 14 - 15, 2015

Opening Reception:
June 14, 2015: 3:00AM - 6:00PM

The Carr Center
311 E. Grand River Ave.
Detroit

577fiber- Judging

Friday, June 5, 2015 I have the pleasure to view the juried work into the 577 Fiber Foundation's annual juried exhibition. This event is filled with exceptional contemporary examples in the Fibers field.

June 5 - 7, 2015

Opening Reception:
June 05, 2015: 6:00PM - 2:00AM

Perrysburg, Ohio

Adaptive Rituals

Upcoming Solo exhibition at MADCentre Gallery
July 2015
POLIS University
Tirana, Albania

Eastern Michigan University Annual Faculty Exhibition

Eastern Michigan University Annual Faculty Exhibition- 2015

January 14 - February 20, 2015, 2015

University Gallery, EMU Student Center

Resolution of Balance

This solo exhibition highlights recent works of Brooks Harris Stevens at the Kreft Center for the Arts at Concordia University in Ann Arbor, MI.

TRANSitioning

The opening reception of the 2014 Women’s & Gender Studies Biennial Juried Art Exhibition: TRANS. The exhibition will take place at February 12- March 13, 2014 at Studio Couture Detroit (1433 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 48226 / studiocouturedetroit.org). This exhibition explores the theme of TRANSITION and will highlight creative TRANsdisciplinary feminist works that explore TRANSITIONing such as: Staying, Leaving Movement, Stasis Marrying, Divorcing Academic, Activist Coupling, Parenting Closeting, Outing Life, Death Thinking, Doing Creation, Destruction Growing, Shrinking Being, Becoming.

The exhibition is being co-sponsored by the University of Detroit Mercy Women’s & Gender Studies Program and the Lawrence Technological University School of Architecture and Design.

February 13 - March 15, 2014, 2014

Opening Reception:
February 13, 2014: 10:00AM - 5:00PM

Studio Couture Detroit

Chromophobe Video Interview

Video article about the exhibition Chromophobe that I am in at the Anton Arts Center in Mt. Clemons, MI. It highlights two pieces that I have in the exhibition nicely, Little Lies and Trace, Cut, Fold, Steam & Repeat,
http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/play/4183285/chromophobe_at_the_anton_art_center

Metier

Metier will take place in Prizeren, Kosovo at the Hamami Gazi Mehmet beginning June 27, 2013. This exhibition will highlight the strength of women in Kosovo as well as work with a community of women's organizations in the preparation of artwork for the Metier.

June 27 - July 27, 2013, 2013

Opening Reception:
June 27, 2013: 9:00AM - 7:00PM

Prizeren, Kosovo at the Hamami Gazi Mehmet

Line By Line- Drawing Explored

Line by Line- Drawing Explored, is a group invitational exhibition at the Detroit Artists Market in Detroit, Michigan including a variety of experimental drawing techniques.
April 19th- May 24th 2013.

April 19 - May 24, 2013, 2013

Opening Reception:
April 19, 2013: 11:00AM - 6:00PM

Detroit Artists Market

Centered

Centered is an exhibition at the re-opening of Detroit Industrial Projects (D.I.P.) at the Russell Industrial Center in Detroit, Michigan. Jada Bowden, Jeanette Strezinski and Brooks Harris Stevens will have work that all relate to the theme Centered.

October 6 - 27, 2012

Opening Reception:
October 06, 2012: 10:00AM - 5:00PM

Russell Industrial Center in Detroit, Michigan

Inherent State

Inherent State is a group exhibition with fellow fiber artist, Sarah Wagner and sisters Jennifer Harris and Cathy Wagner. Sarah and I are both fiber artists with sisters who are poets and creative writers. What are the chances of that happening! Come see the exhibition at the Ann Arbor Arts Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan February 10th- March 16, 2012.

February 10 - March 16, 2012, 2012

Opening Reception:
February 10, 2012: 11:00AM - 6:00PM

Ann Arbor Arts Center

Materials: Hard & Soft

Materials: Hard & Soft is a national juried exhibition in Denton, Texas, a suburb or Dallas. Little Lies will be on display from February 3- March 30, 2012.

February 3 - March 30, 2012, 2012

Opening Reception:
February 03, 2012: 10:00AM - 6:00PM

Denton, Texas

East Carolina University Alumni Exhibition- September 2011

Invitational exhibition for alumni that will take place at the Gray Gallery at ECU as well as the Greenville Museum of Art and the Greenville Arts Council Gallery.

September 1 - 30, 2011

Opening Reception:
September 01, 2011: 10:00AM - 4:00PM