Trish Williams                                                                                                                             Fiber Artist

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Solo Exhibits

2009        Harold Washington Library – Chicago, IL, March 18th until April 30th
2007        Open Studio – Artist Residency – Chicago, IL, February 1st until 28th
2006        Malcolm X Community College, “P.I.E.C.E” – Chicago, IL, March, 1st until 31st   
2004        UIC African American Cultural Center – Chicago, IL, March 1st until 31st  
2003        Bethel Cultural Arts Center – Chicago, IL, February 1st until 28th  


National Exhibits and Tours

Textural Rhythms in Jazz - Touring nationally from February, 2007 through 2011. Sixty four quilts
presented by the Women of Color Quilters Network displaying the interplay between jazz and art.
Venues include the Smithsonion Anacostia Museum, the New York State Museum, Rutgers
University Art Museum, City of Lake Charles, National Underground Railroad Ctr, HUB-Robinson
Galleries, and Museum of the African Diaspora .

PAQA Orchid Challenge – Touring nationally from 2007 through 2010.  Quilts were judged for both
their artistic merit and their accuracy of the depiction.  Judging was by both artistic and floral judges.  
Venues included are Int. Orchid Show - Miami, FL, 19th World Orchid Conference and Show, Miami,
Florida, Madison Orchid Growers' Guild of Madison Show, Madison, WI.

PAQA Water Challenge - Touring nationally from August 2006 through 2009.  There are seventy-
five pieces is this exhibit that had to interpret water and be no larger than 18" per side and include a
self portrait.  Venues Quilting on the Waterfront - Machines in Motion - Duluth MN, Mancuso Greater
Chicago Quilt Exhibition, The Fine Line, St Charles IL,  Lancaster Quilter's Heritage Celebration,
Sinnissippi Quilters of Rockford IL, Michigan Quilt Network Showcase- Lansing MI, and Rocky
Mountain Quilt Museum.

Threads of Faith - Toured nationally from January 2005 through September 2006 presented by the
Women of Color Quilters Network displaying the way our faith is viewed.  Venues included The
Mennonite Heritage Center, Harleysville, PA (outside of Philadelphia), Cincinnati Museum Center,
Cincinnati, OH,  Huntington Art Museum, Huntington, WV, and  King-Tisdale Art Center, Savanna, GA


Group Exhibitions

2010   Beyond The Log Cabin - Abraham Lincoln: the Emancipation and the African  American      
           Experience - Highland Museum, Ashland, KY

2009     Quilts for Obama - Historical Society of Washington, DC
          Mermaid and Merwomen in Black Folklore - Avery Research Center for African
          American   History and Culture, Charleston, SC and the Florence Museum of art,
          Science  and History,Florence, SC

2008      “Quilting African American Women's History: Our Challenges, Creativity, and
           Champions”, Ohio Historical society, Wilberforce, OH
           Spoken with Hands” Ohio Valley Art League, Rotunda Gallery,
            Henderson County Public Library, Henderson, KY
           ABC Bank of Austin, Phantom Gallery – Chicago, IL

2007      Wrapped In the Feeling: “The Story Coat Exhibition”- African American Museum -
           Wichita, KS
          Sew What Art Quilters – Phantom Gallery, - Chicago, IL
          “Stitching Salon” Winter Delights event – Chicago, IL

2006    Visual Voice: Transforming Silence through Contemporary Quilted Art -
          Quilts for Change at the    
          Cintas Center, Xavier University - Cincinnati OH
          Mancuso’s “The World Quilt Show” – New England, Manchester, NH

2004      Museum of Science and Industry, “Black Creativity”– Chicago, IL

2003    Sacred Threads 2003 – Reynoldsburg and Upper Arlington, OH
           Dallas Quilters Guild, Inc. - Dallas, TX

Public Art

           Prentiss Women's Hospital, Chicago, IL
          Comers Children Hospital, Chicago, IL
          Austin Senior Center, Chicago, IL
          15th Police District, Chicago, IL
          Bethel Culture Arts Center, Chicago, IL
          UIC Extension Center, Chicago, IL


Publications

           Threads of Faith - “Dancers of Praise”
          Textural Rhythms: Quilting the Jazz Tradition – “Blow Trane Blow”
          Quilting African American Women's History: Our Challenges, Creativity, and Champions –
          “Harriet’s  gone up yonder”

          Featured on Bonnie McCaffery’s Video-Cast # 24

Lectures/Trunk Shows

           North Shore Quilters Guild of Milwaukee, WI
          River Walk Quilters Guild of Naperville, IL
          UIC African American Center, Women History Month, Chicago, IL
          Intergenerational Art: Building Creative Bridges between Generations Panel
          Chicago, IL