exhibits and awards

exhibits

  • 2011 – Hawaii Collaboration 2011 participant
  • 2011 – State wide juried exhibition, Hawaii Craftsmen’s, Honolulu, Hi.
  • 2011 – Honolulu Printmakers Annual Show-Linekona
  • 2008 – SFCA Award of Recognition & Purchase Award Hawai’i Craftsmen’s
    Textile Show
  • 2008 – State wide juried exhibition, Hawaii Craftsmen’s, Honolulu, Hi.
  • 2007 – Fiber Art Exhibition, Invitational Exhibition, East Hawaii Cultural Center,
    Hilo, Hi.
  • 2006 – State wide juried exhibition, Hawaii Craftsmen’s, Honolulu, Hi.
  • 2005 – State wide juried exhibition, Hawaii Craftsmen’s, Honolulu, Hi.
  • 2004 – One woman show at Lavender Moon Gallery, Kainaliu, Hi.
  • 2003 – State wide juried exhibition, Hawaii Craftsmen’s, Honolulu, Hi.
  • 2003 – All Hawaii Juried Art Exhibition, Hilo, Hawaii
  • 2001 – Invitational show at Kawashima, Japan
  • 2001 – Invitational Portfolio show, presented by Arts Pacifica Alliance
  • 2001 – Hawaii Island Juried Art Competition 2001
  • 2001 – State wide juried exhibition, Hawaii Craftsmen’s, Honolulu, Hi.
  • 2000 – State wide juried exhibition, Hawaii Craftsmen’s, Honolulu, Hi.
  • 2000 – One woman show at Kailua Village Artists Galleries, Kailua, Kona
  • 1998 – One woman show at the Kailua Village Artists Galleries, Hawaii
  • 1997 – One woman show at The Cottage Gallery, Honaunau, Hawaii
  • 1995 – Pieces of Aloha, traveled around the US
  • 1993 – New Directions, Hawaii Craftsmen Juried show, Honolulu, Hi.
  • 1990 – An invitational exhibition at Wailoa Center, Hilo, Hawaii
  • 1988 -”New Directions” Kona’s Best at Wailoa Center, Hilo, Hawaii
  • 1987 – One woman show at Hale O Kula Gallery in Holualoa, Hawaii
  • 1986 – Juried show at Studio 7, Holualoa, Hi.

awards

  • 2009 – Accession “09 Recent Acquisitions from the Art in  Public Places Collection, Hawai’i State Art Museum(HISAM)
  • 2004 – Finalist, International Quilt Association annual show in Houston, Texas
  • 1999 – First place for Mixed Media at Big Island Art Guild Fall Arts Festival
  • 1998 – Third place for machine piecing & quilting Friendship/Quilt at Quilt
    Hawaii

education

  • Extensive study under Koh Itoh of Kanagawa, Japan.
  • Also studied under … Betsy Benjamin Sterling at University of Minnesota, Toshiaki Ohno, Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan, Professor Judy Love of Kansas State University, Hiroki Morinoue, Hawaii, John Thomas, Hawaii, Gayle Anderson, Hawaii, Sonja Oberosler, Hawaii, Jean Ray Laury, Ca., Susan Louise Moyer, Ca.. Judith Montano, Karen Fail, Australia, Faye Labanaris, Cn., Phan Nyguen Barker, Hawaii, Ryu Sensei, China, Hans Ladislaus, Hi., Esther Shimazu, Carolyn Buchanan, Wa., Ilse Aviks.