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Education
A.B. English Literature, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, 1973

Employment
Independent curator, author, consultant, lecturer and appraiser, 1994-
Executive Director, The Alliance for American Quilts, 2004.
Consultant, Sotheby's, "American Waterfowl Decoys: The Distinguished Collection of James M. McCleery, M.D.," New York, July 1999- January, 2000.
Consulting curator, Quilts, Inc./International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas, 1998-2003.
Consultant, Early American Life Magazine, 1994-1995
Curator, The Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, 1981-1994.

Books and exhibition catalogs
Art Quilts: A Celebration. Chapel Hill, NC: Lark Books, 2005.
Classic Guitars. Petaluma, California: Pomegranate, 2004.
30 Distinguished Quilt Artists of the World 2003. Tokyo: Executive Committee for the Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival, 2003.
30 Distinguished Quilt Artists of the World 2002. Tokyo: Executive Committee for the Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival, 2002.
Contemporary Art Quilts from the Collection of John M. Walsh III. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, 2001.
American Baskets. New York: Clarkson Potter, Inc. 2000.
The Art Quilt. Southport, CT: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates. 1997.
Great Guitars. Southport, CT: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates. 1997.
Hawaiian Quilt Masterpieces. Southport, CT: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates.1996.
Quilts: A Living Tradition. Southport, CT: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates. 1995.
America's Traditional Crafts. Southport, CT: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1993.
Call to the Sky: The Decoy Collection of James M. McCleery, M.D., Houston. Houston Museum of Natural Science/Gulf Publishing Co., 1992.

Books: Introductions and contributions
"Humanizing the Mundane," "Boxes and Baskets,""A Child's World: Academy and School Work," and ""United as This Heart You See:
Memories of Friendship and Family," Innocence and Eloquence: The Katcher Collection of American Folk Art. Scheduled to be published in 2006.
Forward, QuiltArt 20. Edinburgh, Scotland: QuiltArt, July, 2005.
Introduction, Rooted in Tradition: Art Quilts from the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Virginia Beach, Virginia: Donning Company Publishers, June, 2005.
"America's Mythic Instrument." The Birth of the Banjo. Katonah, New York: The Katonah Museum of Art, 2003.
"Quilts and Community," The Nevada Quilt Odyssey. Reno, Nevada Historical Society, 2002.
"Introduction," Amish Quilts 1880-1940 from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Art Museum, 2000.
"The McCleery Collection" and "American Bird Decoys," American Waterfowl Decoys: The Distinguished Collection of Dr. James M. McCleery. New York: Sotheby's, 1999.
Contributor, The Twentieth Century's Best American Quilts. Golden, CO: Primedia Special Interest Publications, 1999.
Consultant, Sotheby's Guide to American Folk Art. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1994.
Forward, Decoys, Linda and Gene Kangas. Paducah, KY: Collector Books, 1992.
Introduction and "Collecting Decoys," The Great Book of Wildfowl Decoys. San Diego: Thunder Bay/Abbeville, 1990.
Contributing author, An American Sampler: Folk Art from the Shelburne Museum. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1987.

Selected Articles
"John M. Walsh III: Passionate Patron of the Art Quilt," Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, January 2006.
"Five Decades of Unconventional Quilts." Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, five part series, 2004.
with Peter Szego. "The Early Banjo." The Magazine ANTIQUES. December, 2003: 82-89.
"The Art Quilt in 2003." FiberArts. November/December 2003: 37-44.
(Interview of Robert Saw by Sunita Patterson, editor, FiberArts.)
"Tools of Deception: A History of American Bird Decoys." Wildfowl Art. Winter 2003: 3-7.
"Contemporary Quilts: The John M. Walsh III Collection." FiberArts. January/February, 2002.
"New England Baskets." The Magazine ANTIQUES. August 1998.
"Cobalt-decorated Stoneware." Early American Homes. August 1998: 8-12.
"Joel Barber: The Lost Birds," Decoy Magazine. September/October 1994.
"The Shelburne Museum: The Folk Sculpture," "The Historic Structures " (with Ralph Nading Hill), and "A Pictorial Sampler." The Magazine ANTIQUES, February 1988.

Selected Exhibitions
"Elements," The Front Range Contemporary Quilters., The Loveland Museum and Gallery, Loveland, Colorado, November 2003, currently traveling t through Exhibits USA
"The Birth of the Banjo." Katonah (NY) Museum f Art, November 2003- February 2004.
Juror, "Quilt National 2003," traveling, cataloged organized by The Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens, Ohio
"30 Distinguished Quiltmakers of the World 2003." Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival, Tokyo, Japan, January 2003
"Kaleidoscopes and Quilts." Fall International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas, October 2002.
"A Mediterranean Odyssey: Art Quilts." Patchwork & Quilt Expo VIII, Barcelona, Spain, April 2002
"30 Distinguished Quiltmakers of the World." Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival, Tokyo, Japan, January 2002.
"Amish Quilts 1880-1940 from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown." University of Michigan Art Museum, July-September, 2000, traveled to the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Spencer Gallery at the University of Kansas, and Denver Art Museum. Selection panelist and curator, "The 100 Best American Quilts of the 20th Century." International Quilt Festival, Houston, October 1999.
"Call to the Sky: The Decoy Collection of James M. McCleery, M.D." Houston Museum of Natural Science, fall 1992.
"Naive Visions: Children's Playthings from the Index of American Design and the Shelburne Museum." National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, December 1987.
"An American Sampler: Folk Art from the Shelburne Museum." National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, opened November 1987, traveled to five other institutions.

Selected lectures/symposiums
"Pushing the Envelope: 25 Years of Art Quilts," Keynote address, symposium: Rooted in Tradition: The Art Quilt, Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado, June, 2005
"A History of the Art Quilt," Keynote address, Boothbay Harbor Quilt Festival, Boothbay, Maine, October, 2004.
"Quilts Today," Historic Arkansas Museum, 2003.
"The Art Quilt," University of Kentucky Art Museum, September 2001
"The Quilt." Illinois State Museum, June 2000,.
"Tools of Deception: American Bird Decoys." Keynote address, Sotheby's
Symposium, New York, January 2000.
"Art Quilts." The Museum of American Folk Art, June 1998.

Other lecture venues include:
American Craft Museum, New York City
American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
Dallas Museum of Natural History
Dallas Society of Antiques and Fine Arts
Fuller Art Museum, Brockton, MA
Houston Museum of Natural Sciences
Museum of Our National History, Lexington, MA
New England Quilt Museum (Lowell, MA)
South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
Schweinfurth Museum, Aurora, NY
Ward Foundation Museum of Wildfowl Art , Salisbury, MD

Editor and/or producer
Editor, Quilts, (calendar). Petaluma, California: Pomegranate, 2006.
Editor and producer, The McCleery Auction. Dallas, Texas: Lake Emma Press, 2001.
Editor, Classic Guitars (calendar). Petaluma, California: Pomegranate, 1998-2007.
Editor, Folk Art Baskets (calendar). Shelburne, VT: Chapters Publishing, Ltd., 1995-1996.
Editor, Antique Toys (calendar). Shelburne, VT: Chapters Publishing, Ltd., 1995.
Editor, Wild Bird Eggs (calendar). Shelburne, VT: Chapters Publishing, Ltd., 1995.
Editor and producer, Robinson, Charles A. Vermont Cabinetmakers and Chairmakers Before 1855: A Checklist. Shelburne, VT: The Shelburne Museum, 1994.
Producer, The Shelburne Museum. Shelburne, VT: The Shelburne Museum, 1992.
Editor, American Folk Art (paintings calendar). New York: et Neuter Publishing Company, 1990.
Editor, Kelly, Rob Roy. Trivets and Stands. Lima, OH: Golden Era Publications, 1990.
Editor and producer, A Pictorial History of the Shelburne Museum (third, revised edition). Shelburne, VT: The Shelburne Museum, 1988.
Editor and producer, Wildfowl Decoy Masterpieces (calendar). Shelburne, VT: The Shelburne Museum, 1986-1993.

Honors
"Fifty Books by Fifty Alumni of the Last Fifty Years." Starr Library, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, 2000.