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CYNTHIA SCHIRA Education and Awards |
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| 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Artist’s Fellowship 2000 Gold Medal, College of Fellows, American Craft Council 1998 Chancellor's Club Career Teaching Award, University of Kansas 1992 Kansas Governor's Art Award 1991 Fellow of the College of Fellows, American Craft Council 1990 Kansas Art's Commission Craftsman's Fellowship 1989 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design 1983 National Endowment for the Arts Craftsman's Fellowship 1974 National Endowment for the Arts Craftsman's Fellowship 1967 MFA, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 1966 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award 1956-57 L'Ecole d'Art Decoratif, Aubusson, France 1956 Textron Fellowship BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island |
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| Works in Public Collections | |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston DeYoung Museum, San Francisco Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Arts and Design, New York Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Museum Bellerive, Zurich The Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans |
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| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
2005 Visions in Textiles, Izmir State Art and Sculpture Museum, Izmir, Turkey Textile 0-5th International Textile Art Exhibition, Kaunas, Lithuania 2003 Generations/Transformations: American Fiber Art, American Textile History Museum, 2002 Technology as Catalyst: Textile Artists on the Cutting Edge, Textile Museum, Washington,D.C. E-TEXTILES, Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (-tour) Miniature Textiles 2000, Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki 1997 Celebrating American Craft, Kunstindustrie Museum, Copenhagen 1994 2010 - Textiles and New Technology, British Craft Center, London (tour) 1991 Jacquard Project, Museum fur Industriekultur, Nurnberg,Germany 1989 Internaional Textile Competition '89, Kyoto City Museum, Japan 14th International Biennale of Tapestry, Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland and Textile Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands 1988 Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans, U.S.I.A. Exhibit (tour Asia) 1987 The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Art Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Kyoto, Japan 1986 Craft Today: The Poetry of the Physical, American Crafts Museum, New York( tour) Fiber R/Evolution, Milwaukee Art Museum, Miilwaukee, Wisconsin 1981 The Art Fabric: Mainstream, San Francisco Museum of Art (tour) Old Traditions/New Directions, The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C. 1978 Third Textile Trienale, The Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland 1977 8th International Biennale Of Tapestry, Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland 1976 The Dyer's Art, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York (tour) 1973 6th International Biennale of Tapestry, Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland 1970 Forms in Fibers The Art Institute of Chicago Objects: USA, Contemporary Crafts Museum, New York |
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