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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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