Trish Williams Fiber Artist
Resume
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
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.
Textural Rhythms in Jazz - Touring nationally from February, 2007 through 2010. Sixty four quilts
presented by the Women of Color Quilters Network displaying the interplay between jazz and art.
Venues include the Smiths onion Anacostia Museum, the New York State Museum and the Rutgers
University Art 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
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