UPCOMING WORKSHOP
The Sketchbook Habit • Textile Center • Minneapolis, Minnesota
Friday-Sunday, August 17-19, 2018, 9 am-4 pm
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Susan Moss has an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Nebraska and teaches in the Department of Art & Design at Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO. She has drawn since a child, on paper tablecloths, blackboards, white boards, notebook paper (in the margins, around the edges), paper bags and sumptuous, archival surfaces. Much of her work has focused on large-scale drawings that explore domesticity, memory, and the ordinary as recurring themes. A few years ago she took up the study of historic and contemporary textiles and began using stitch, especially hand embroidery, as a way of drawing.
In her stitched drawings, often personal narratives, she is interested in integrating the spontaneity of drawing with the stitched mark, creating play between the restraint that embroidery often requires and the looser approach that drawing invites. Her current work entails little planning, relying instead on improvisation and responsiveness as the work progresses.
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Susan Moss
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2018 Material Improvisation/Restraint II (solo)
WCA/CO 2017 Fiber Arts VIII
Reflections
SDA Small Works A Common Thread WCA/CO
Red, TSGNY Art-o-Mat
2016 Transgressing Traditions: Contemporary Textiles from the
Surface Design Association Fiber Innovations II
Sediments, Sequences & Solitude (traveling)
A Common Thread
Sketchbook Project Tour: Brooklyn Art Library
Art-o-Mat
Faculty & Staff Biennial
2015 Evolution: Women’s Caucus for Art/ CO
Art-o-Mat
The Art of Fiber
D’Art Center, Norfolk, VA
Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN
Core New Art Space, Denver, CO
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
Red Rocks Community College Gallery, Lakewood, CO Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN
Core New Art Space, Denver, CO
Noho-M55 Gallery, New York, NY
Varied venues including Santa Fe, NM; Cedar Rapids, IA; Smithsonian, Washington, DC; Meow Wolf, Santa Fe, NM; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Scwheinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
Parker Arts, Culture, & Events Center, Parker, CO
Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, OR; Atelier 6000, Bend, OR; World Forestry Center, Portland, OR
Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN
Chicago, IL; Cedar Rapids, IA; Boulder, CO; Los Angeles, CA; Fort Smith, AR; New York, NY (Whitney Museum of American Art)
Varied venues including Washington, DC; Vancouver, BC, Canada; Los Angeles, CA; Reno, NV; St Petersburg FL; New Orleans, LA
Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO Bemis Library, Littleton, CO
Varied venues including Winston-Salem, NC; Vancouver, BC, Canada; Ballard, WA; Santa Fe, NM; Amarillo, TX
Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
2014 - 15
2014
2013
2012 2011
2010
2004
2003
2001
2000
A Common Thread Faculty & Staff Biennial
New Directions: Textile Society of America Symposium
Focus Fiber: Textile Art Alliance
3rd Biennial Fiber Options (juror’s award)
Improvisation/Restraint (solo)
A Common Thread
Threads: Contemporary Fiber Art Down to Sleep
The Raw & the Cooked
Merge & Flow: Surface Design Association
Sketchbook Project Tour: Art House Co-op
From the Tongue
Susan Moss (solo)
Inside the Box
National Works on Paper Small Treasures
Take Four
Strength in Numbers
Summer Group
23rd Harper College National Exhibition
Great Plains National Juried Exhibition
Works on Paper XII Artstravaganza
Small Treasures
17th National Juried Exhibit
Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN
Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
Museum of Craft & Folk Art, Los Angeles, CA
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Maryland Federation of Art Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD
Durango Art Center Library, Durango, CO Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN
Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ
Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Brooklyn, NY; Austin, TX; San Francisco, CA; Portland, OR; Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL
Lotus Gallery Space (Tribeca), New York, NY
University Gallery, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Core New Art Space, Denver, CO
Haydon Gallery/Nebraska Art Association, Lincoln, NE
Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR
Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts & James Monroe Center of Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA
Haydon Gallery/Nebraska Art Association, Lincoln, NE Palatine, IL
Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS
Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN Haydon Gallery/Nebraska Art Association, Lincoln, NE Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, WA
Cooperstown Art Association’s 2000 National
1999 Small Treasures
1998 20th Annual Jurored Art Exhibition
Texas Fine Arts Association Art on Tour
1997 Small Treasures
Texas Fine Arts Association Art on Tour
1996 Pulp Fictions: Works on Paper Maximum Drawings
Scene/Unseen
Summa Composite Art Exhibition (purchase award)
1995 10th Annual Combined Talents Florida National
Susan Moss: Drawings (solo)
16th Annual Jurored Art Exhibition
Robert A. Peck Arts Center Exhibition 1995
1994 Susan Moss at Reed Whipple Cultural Center (solo)
Ancient Vessels (solo) Susan Moss Drawings (solo)
10th Annual National Juried Exhibition
Form & Texture Drawn West Positive/Negative #10
1993 ANA 22
Pattern: New Form/New Function
Cooperstown, NY
Haydon Gallery/Nebraska Art Association, Lincoln, NE Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
Del Rio Council for the Arts, Del Rio, TX; Wichita Falls Museum & Art Center, Wichita Falls, TX; Loredo Community College, Laredo, TX
Haydon Gallery/Nebraska Art Association, Lincoln, NE
J. Wayne Stark Gallery, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX
Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
College of Santa Fe/Santa Fe Council for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Visual Arts Center of Northwest Florida, Panama City, FL Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
Central Wyoming College, Riverton, WY
City of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
Haydon Gallery/Nebraska Art Association, Lincoln, NE
Emmanuel Gallery, Community College of Denver, Metropolitan State College of Denver, & University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO
Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley Art Center Association, Berkeley, CA
Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA
Utah State University, Logan, UT
East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Larson Biennial Drawing Competition (purchase award)
Drawn to the Extreme 14th Paper in Particular Women’s Art Works Works on Paper (solo)
1992 National Juried Show ’92 (drawing award)
National Annual Juried Competition Drawing 1992
8th Annual National Juried Exhibition
Hand-Pulled Prints: A National Juried Printmaking Exhibition
Creating Ourselves: A Regional Women’s Art Exhibition
50th Annual Juried Competition (purchase award)
1991 Greater Midwest International VI
Fourth National Drawing/Print Competitive Exhibition
Fourteenth Annual North Dakota National Juried Exhibition
Hilo National Drawing Exhibition (purchase award)
Fifth Clemson National Print & Drawing Exhibition
12th Annual Jurored Art Exhibition (award of distinction)
Images of Nebraska
Images 1991
1990 49th Annual Juried Competition
9th Annual National Graduate Drawing Exhibition
Works on Paper
Trahern Gallery, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
Galeria Mesa, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ Columbia College, Columbia, MO
Greater Rochester Women’s Fund, Rochester, NY Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV
Arts Center of Northern New Jersey, New Milford, NJ
Lafayette Art Association, Lafayette, LA Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley Art Center Association, Berkeley, CA
Blue Star Art Complex, San Antonio, TX
Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM
Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA
Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD
Minot Art Gallery, Minot, ND University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI Clemson University, Clemson, SC Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
Art Space, Metropolitan Arts Council, Omaha, NE Highland Community College, Highland, KS
Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA
Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI
Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY
COLLECTIONS
Jeff & Susan Gwilliam Appalachian State University Austin Peay State University
Sioux City Art Center
State of Hawaii Art in Public Places First Data Resources
Baltimore, MD Boone, NC Clarksville, TN Sioux City, IA
Omaha, NE
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE University of Missouri, Columbia, MO University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
Good Hart, MI Saratoga, WY
Ucross, WY Summer Lake, OR Oysterville, WA Lake Forest, IL
Surface Design Journal Winter
Embroidery: The textile art magazine Mar/ Apr
EDUCATION
1991 MFA Painting & Drawing 1983 MS Psychology
1979 BA English
TEACHING
1991-present Professor of Art & Design
RESIDENCIES
2018 Good Hart Artist Residency
2017 Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts
2016 Ucross (invited) 2015 Playa
2014 Willapa Bay
1992 Ragdale Foundation
ARTICLES by S. MOSS
2016 “Crafting Creativity” “Claire Benn”
2014 “Janet Echelman”
“International Quilt Study Center”
“From Viking to Vesterheim” 2013 “Marks in Time & Place”
Embroidery: The textile art magazine Nov/ Dec
Embroidery: The textile art magazine Jul/ Aug
Embroidery: The textile art magazine May/ Jun
Embroidery: The textile art magazine Nov/ Dec
A national center for fiber art
AFFILIATIONS
Surface Design Association Textile Center, Minneapolis Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) WCA - Colorado
Textile Study Group of New York Textile Society of America
Front Range Contemporary Quilters
© Susan M Moss 2018