Member's Gallery  > Ana Lisa Hedstrom

Contact Info
Office:
1420 45th Street, #44
Emeryville, CA 94608
510-654-4109

Studio:
22330 Skyline Blvd.
La Honda, CA 94020
650-949-2861

ARTIST STATEMENT

I think of fabric as conversation. It can be subtle, bold, witty, seductive. The shibori resist dye techniques create intricate patterns which may be perused as a language or script. I hope my own dialogue with the process, color and piecing will ultimately speak to the viewer.

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Biographical Information

Education:
Kyoto Art College, Kyoto, Japan; special studies in ceramics, 1966-1967
Mills College, Oakland, CA, B.A., 1965
Travel:
Visited major textile centers in Southeast Asia, India, 1968-1969; South America, 1973, Textile research in Japan, 1983.

Solo Exhibitions

Shibori: Tradition & Innovation - East to West, San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, 2001

Fiberart International, Pittsburgh, PA 2001

Pushing the Surface, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, OH 2001

Art, Image and Identity 1900-2001, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2000

New Traditions: 4 Craftsmen Invitational, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA, 2000

Converging Cultures, Center of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO, 1999

Art of Wear: The Body Adorned, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 1998

Dressed Up, Wustum Museum, Racine, WI, 1998

Surface Tension, Center of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO, 1997

The Fabric of Life: 150 Years of Northern California Fiber Art, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 1997

The Kimono Inspiration, The Textile Museum, Washington, DC, 1996

New Tools, Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 1995

Recent Acquisitions, American Craft Museum, New York, NY, 1993

Contemporary Shibori, International Invitational, Nagoya, Japan, 1992


Selected Group Exhibitions

Building a Permanent Collection: Perspective on the 1980s, American Craft Museum, New York, NY 1990

Color, Light, Surface, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY 1990

Traje: Um Objecto de Arte?, Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal, 1990

Shibori, Nagoya, 1989, in conjunction with World Expo 1989

Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, New York, 1986. Tour of USA, 1998

Material Images, Bowling Green, OH, 1986

Handmade Clothing: 10 American Artists, British Crafts Center, London, England, 1985

Art to Wear, American Craft Museum USIA Tour to 8 Asian countries, 1984-1985

Contemporary Wearable Art, Newark Museum, NJ, 1984

Shibori, Traditional Japanese and Contemporary Japanese and American Textiles, Takeda Kahei Shoten, Nagoya, Osaka, Tokyo, Japan, 1984

Celebration '84: A Sense of Occasion, Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto, Canada, 1984

Art to Wear: New Handmade Clothing, American Craft Museum, New York City and a tour of nine states

California Crafts XIII, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, 1983

Fiber as Art, Metropolitan Museum of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines, 1980

Maximum Coverage: Wearables by Contemporary American Artists, John Kohler Art Center, Sheboygen, WI, 1980

National Minature Fiber Exhibition, Armory for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 1979

The Dome Group Show, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Reno, NV, 1979

The New Fabric Surface '78, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, 1978

Third International Exhibition of Minature Textiles, London, England, 1978

Honors and Awards

Top Prize, International Division, Shibori, Nagoya, '89, in conjunction with the World Expo '89 in Nagoya, Japan
Top US finalist and Ideacomo Award, the Fashion Foundation, Third International Textile design Contest, Tokyo, Japan, 1988
National Endowment for the Arts, Craftsman Fellowship, 1988
National Endowment for the Arts, Craftsman Fellowship, 1982

Selected Teaching

Workshop Leader/Lecturer, World Shibori Symposia, Santiago Chile, 1999; Ahmedabad, India, 1996; Nagoya, Japan, 1992
Guest Instructor, University of Art and Industrial Design, Helsinki, Finland, 1991
Instructor, Harbourfront Craft Studios, Toronto, Canada, 1990, 1996
Instructor, Split Rock Arts Program, University of Minnesota, 1989, 1994
Instructor, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, 1988, 1996
Instructor, Haystack School of Arts and Crafts, 1988, 1998
Instructor, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1993
Instructor, Arrowmont School of Crafts, Gatlinberg, TN, 1986, 1996
Guest Artist, University of Iowa, Summer Session, 1985
Guest Artist and Workshop Leader, National Surface Design Conference, Arrowmont School, TN, 1983, 1989, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1991; University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 1997; Kansas City, KS, 2000
Instructor, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CXA, 1982
Instructor, Fiberworks, Berkeley, CA 1978-79
Guest Lecturer, San Francisco State University; University of California at Davis; Fiberworks, Berkeley, CA; Montclair State Unvieristy, NJ; Oakland Museum for the Costume Institute; California College of Arts and Crafts


Gallery and Retail Affiliations

Julie, Artisans Gallery, New York, NY
Santa Fe Weaving Gallery, Santa FE, NM
Cicada, San Francisco, CA
Widney Moore Gallery, Portland, OR

Publications

Fiberarts Magazine, cover photo, 1997

The Kimono Inspiration, Wada, Dale, Corwin, authors, 1996

Ornament Magazine, cover photo and article, Summer 1993

The Surface Designers Art, Lark Books, 1993

The Book of Silk, Phillipa Scott, Thames and Hudson, 1993

American Craft Magazine, cover photo and article, 1991

California Designers by Douglas Bullis, Peregrine Smith Books, 1987

Art to Wear by Julie Schafler Dale, Abbeville Press, 1986

Craft Today, Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum by Paul Smith and Edward Lucie-Smith, 1986

Fiberarts Magazine, "Ana Lisa Hedstrom: The Intuitive Language of Shibori," by Jessica Scarborough, January/February, 1985

Fiberarts Magazine, "Art to Wear: Looking at the Movement" by Jessica Scarborough, May/June, 1985

Senshoku Alpha Magazine, "American Textile Artists," by Shigeki Fukumoto, Japan, 1984

American Craft Magazine, Cover Photo, "art to Wear" by Linda Dyett, September, 1983

Shibori by Yoshiko Wada, Mary Kellog Rice and Jane BArton, Kodansha International, 1983

Senshoku Alpha Magazine, "shibori in America," by Yoshiko Wada, Japan, 1982

The New York Times, "Patterns on Fabric: Subject of Three Shows," by Stephanie Reith, April, 1980

London Times, "Fine Art: Nothing over Eight Inches," by John Russell Taylor, August 12, 1978

San Francisco Magazine, "Five Women Artists," by Ann Gold, September 1977

Permanent Collections

M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Wustum Museum, Racine, WI
American Craft Museum, New York
Cooper Hewitt Museum, The Smithsonian Institute, New York
Takeda Kahei Shoten, Arimatsu, Japan
Aichi Shibori Research and Study Archive, Nagoya, Japan


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