PAMELA ALLEN
199 Albert St., Kingston ON Canada K7L 3V4 613 542 5866
FABRIC ART C.V.
2009 PAQA South , Art Quilts- Transitions, Durham Arts Council, NC
2009 Anderson Art Center, Wisconsin. Solo exhibit
2009 Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte Ontario. Solo Exhibition
2009 Seaway Quilt Show, Clayton N.Y. Feature artist
2009 Taiwan International exhibition, Taiwan, March 25 - April 8, 2009.
2009 National Juried Show, Saskatoon, Canada. Judge’s Choice
2009 Quilt Odyssey, Shippensburg, PA
EXHIBITIONS:
2008 NATIONAL QUILT ASSOCIATION SHOW, Honourable mention wallhanging
2008, QUILT ODDYSSEY, Honourable mention
2008 CHAMELEON NATION GALLERY, Kingston, ON
2008 ARTQUILTS, CULTURES, Page Walker Arts and History Center, Cary, NC
2008 PUZZLED AND BOARD, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, Mass.
2008 CELEBRATE SPRING, IQA International show, Chicago, IL
2008 QUILT=ART=QUILT, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, New York
2008 WORLD QUILT EXHIBITION, Touring US
2008 SAQA Canada, Synthesis, Toronto Creativ fest and Ottawa
2008 GALLERY FIFTY, Traverse City, MI]
2008 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL QUILT EXHIBITION, Santa Clara, CA
2008 IQA WORLD OF BEAUTY, Houston TX
2008 IQA JOURNAL PROJECT:ELEMENTS, Houston, TX
2008 TOWN AND COUNTRY SPECIAL EXHIBIT, Houston, TX
2008 MASTERS;ART QUILTS, SAQA sponsored, Houston, TX
2008 ART QUILTS XIII-LUCKY BREAK, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ
2008 I-4 CORRIDOR-STRETCHING THREADS ACROSS FLORIDA, Harris House, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2007 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL QUILT FESTIVAL, Santa Clara, California
2007 QUILT ODYSSEY, Shippensburg, PA
2007 The Del Thomas Collection, VISIONS ART QUILT GALLERY, San Diego,
2007 FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING, Ricky Tims Gallery, LaVita, CO
2007 Ontario Juried show, Kitchener ON
2007 CQA National show, Kamloops B.C. Judges Choice award
2007 IN FULL BLOOM; IQA special exhibit, Houston Texas
2007 MARKINGS, PAQA sponsored exhibition, NC ( Judge’s Choice art quilt)
2007 Lower Town Quilt Walk, Paducah, KS (Best in Show)
2007 Albuquerque Fiber Festival
2007 “Stretching the Threads ‘, Atlantic Center for the Arts at Harris House, Florida
2007 Celebrate Spring, IQA festival, Chicago
2007, Road to California, Upland Ca.
2007 “She Made Her Mark”, Quilter’s Hall of Fame, Indiana
2006 “Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Gallery, Syracuse NY
2006 “Art Quilts XI”. Chandler Art center, Chandler AZ
2006 “Translucent Passages”, Union Avenue Fiber & Art Gallery, Pueblo Colorado
2006 Quilt Canada, Ottawa Ontario ( First prize innovative quilt)
2006 “QuiltArt@10”, Lowell MA
2006 National Quilt Association show, Columbus Ohio ( second prize art quilt)
2006 World Quilt Competition, starting New Hampshire and touring ( Honourable mention in World Innovative)
2006 “Fiber Renaissance”. Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, Illinois
2006 “Convergence”, SAQA sponsored, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2006 “Insecta”, Aullwood Audubon Center, Dayton Ohio
2006 “Quilts for Change”, Columbus Ohio
2006 “Culture of my Country”, Patchwork Expo, Lyon France
2006 “Fruit of the Vine, Patchwork Expo, Lyon France
2006 “Changing the World One Thread at a Time”: Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac Arizona, travel to France
2006” Parallels and Intersections: Artists Quilt A World”, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Museum, West Chester Ohio
2006 Celebrate Spring, IQA festival, Chicago, IL (Honourable Mention Art Quilt)
2005 Contemporary Canadian Quilts, traveling exhibition, Yokohama and Sendai Japan
2005 Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, CA
2005 World Quilt competition, Mancuso traveling show, (3rd for Innovative in World)
2005 Quiltarts 10th Anniversary show, IQA Festival, Houston, Texas
2005 In Full Bloom, IQA special Exhibit, IQA Quilt Festival , Houston, Texas
2005 I Remember Mama Part III, IQA Quilt Festival,, Houston Texas
2005 Road to California, Montclair CA, (First prize art quilt, First prize most humourous quilt)
2005 Small Wonders, IQS Spring special exhibit, Chicago
2005 Carpe Diem, traveling special exhibit with Mancuso shows
2005 Albuquerque Fiber Fiesta
2005 Ontario Juried Exhibition, Kitchener Waterloo
2005 Grand National: Airborne, Sheridan College Art gallery, Kitchener Waterloo
2005 Common Threads, Oakville Arts council
2005 Faces of Women, Las Vegas Arts Council
2005 Women’s Week, Lowell Mass
2004 Art Quilts IX, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler Arizona
2004 Fiberedge Sampler, special exhibition, touring with Mancuso shows
2004 World of Beauty, International Quilt Festival, Houston Texas
2004 Changing Definitions, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock Arkansas
2004 Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara California, (judges choice)
2004 Quilted Cuisine, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell Mass.
2004 Expressions in Textiles, New Haven Connecticut
2004 Quilts for Change, Cincinnati OH ( Best contemporary quilt)
2004 I Remember Mama part 2, Houston Texas
2004 Canadian National Quilt Festival, Winnipeg, MN, Canada
2004 In Full Bloom, Chicago, The Hague Netherlands, Houston
2004 Old Masters :New Masters, Chicago, The Hague Netherlands, Houston
2004 Considering Quilts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Harris House ,New Smyrna Beach FL.
2004 Instructor’s Exhibition, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach FL
2004 Canadian National Juried Quilts, Winnipeg Manitoba
2004Ontario Juried Show, Waterloo, ON, Canada
2004AQS Quilt Show ,Paducah
2004 Fine Focus touring exhibition
2004 35 years of Inspiration, Sponsor Quilting Newsletter Magazine
2003 Dreaming the Garden, touring group show, curator Laura Cater-woods
2003 Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, California
2003 Tubac Art Center, “Wrapped in Cloth”, Tubac Arizona, curator Thelma Smith
2003 Agnes Etherington Art Centre, “Connected”, Kingston, Canada,
2003 International Quilt Festival, “World of Beauty”, Houston Texas,
2003 Chandler Center for the Arts, “A Cut Above”, Chandler, Arizona,
2003 World Quilt & Textile:On Tour, Michigan, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, California, (2nd Place of Country),
2003 Thayer Memorial Library, “Dreaming the Garden”, Lancaster, MA,
2003 Aullwood Audubon Center, “Airborne:Birds, Flight and the Wrights”,Dayton, Ohio,
2003 David Myers Gallery, “Uptown Quilts”,Websterville, Ohio,
2003 NYQ2003!, “Invitational Exhibit “, Troy, New York,
2003 Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta , Albuquerque, New Mexico ( Judges Choice Award),
2002 Touring Costa Rica, “911 Artist React”,
2002 International Quilt Festival, Journal Quilts, Houston, Texas,
2002 International Quilt Festival ,” World of Beauty”, Houston, Texas,
2002 Pratt Institute of Art , “Dirty Girls”, New York city, New York
2001 International Quilt Festival, “ America From the Heart”, Houston, Texas-
EDUCATION
B.F.A. Queens University, Kingston, Canada, 1982
FURTHER STUDY
Lucky Shie Art Camp, 2001
PUBLICATIONS
Muse Zine: “How Do Artists Get Their Ideas?” July 2002
Art Erratica Magazine: Aug. 2001, Winter 2001
Artella Magazine: Issue 1 2002, Issue 2, 2002, Issue 4 2003, issue E-1 “In the Studio-Interview with Pamela Allen”2003
Quilting Arts Magazine: “ Embellishing with attitude”, by Pamela Allen, issue23, fall 2006, pg.20-25
Quilting Arts Magazine: “Judges Choice” Issue 11, Fall 2003 pg. 72
Quilting Arts Magazine: “Outside the Box” Issue 12, Winter 2003
Quilting Arts Magazine: “Pamela Allen In the Spotlight”, Summer 2004
Quilting Arts Magazine “Judges choice”, Fall 2004
Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, Quilts: 35 years of Inspiration, Information and Imagination
September 2004
Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine: “Quilt Show”, June 2005
Canadian Quilters Magazine, Winter 2004. “Kids Quilting”, by Pamela Allen
I Remember Mama, 2005, book written by Karey Bresenhan of Quilts Inc.
Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, October 2006 Contemporary Quilters Invited to Show Latest and Greatest, pg.17
The Laurel of Asheville, The Alliance for the American Quilt calls Asheville Home, 2006
A Needle Pulling Thread, Premiere issue 2005,Designers in the Spotlight
QA Journal, summer 2006 newsletter, Celebrate Spring Winners
The Canadian Quilter, Fall 2006, National Quilt Show winners
Journal of the International Quilt Association, Fall 2006, International Spotlight, Pamela Allen
A PAGE FROM MY BOOK: The 2007 Journal Quilt Project, Quilting Arts magazine, Feb/Mar 2008, pg.87
THE MASTERS; ART QUILTS, Larkbooks, Publisher,
2008Quilting Newsletter magazine, summer 2008, MEETIN’ PLACE
American Quilter, May, 2008, OUT A ROOF OVER OUR HEAD CHALLENGE
DVD THINK LIKE AN ARTIST, Nine Patch Media, Courtney, B.C.