Virginia A. Spiegel

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Permanent Collections

Artist-in-Residence

• Great Expectations Creativity Center, Quilt, Inc., LaGrange, TX January 9 - February 5, 2007
• Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE November 2005
  
  

Solo Shows

• Boundary Waters Norfolk Art Center, Norfolk, NE 2007
• The Geometry of Bees Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE 2005
• Portage Nebraska Governor's Mansion, Lincoln, NE. One of ten artists selected by the Nebraska Arts Council 2004
• Virginia A. Spiegel: Fiber Art Wildwood Historic House and Art Gallery, Nebraska City, NE 2001
• Virginia A. Spiegel: Recent Work Morton-James Library, Nebraska City, NE 2001
• Passions Nebraska Governor’s Mansion, Lincoln, NE. One of ten artists selected by the Nebraska Arts Council 2000
• Blue Wildwood Historic House and Art Gallery, Nebraska City, NE 2000
• Progressions Morton-James Library, Nebraska City, NE 1999
  
  

Selected Awards and Honors

• Juror (with Jeanne Williamson) - Journal Quilt Project II. Venues include three
  International Quilt Festivals in 2009.
• Artwork chosen for exhibit postcard. Blue. Translations Gallery, Denver, CO 2008
• Juror's Choice Award Balancing Act, Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale, MI 2007
• Judge's Award (Rebecca A. T. Stevens, Consulting Curator, Contemporary Textiles, The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.), Art Quilt X, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ 2006
• Artwork chosen for exhibit postcard. Art Quilts XI:  Stages, Cycles & Fits Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ 2006
• Judge - Doing Small Things. Fiberarts Connection of Southern California 2006
• Sponsor Purchase Award Fiber Focus 2005, Art Saint Louis Gallery, St. Louis, MO 2005
• Second Place Award Eleventh Anniversary Show, Carnegie Arts Center, Alliance, NE 2004
• Second Place Award Tenth Anniversary Show, Carnegie Arts Center, Alliance, NE 2003
• Sponsor Award Fiber Celebration, Tointon Gallery, Greeley, CO 2001
• First Place Award - Fiber Iowa Crafts:31, Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, IA 1998
  
  

Invitational Exhibitions

• New Focus 2008 Kim Ritter and Judy B. Dales, Curators. Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR 2008 - 2009
• A Sense of Place: Artists Working in Series Studio Art Quilt Associates, Peg Keeney, Curator. Sixteen artists. International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX 2007-2008
• Tied Together: Textile Art in the 21st Century Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ. Included invited artists: Lia Cook, Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Michael James, Gyongy Laky and Jon Eric Riis 2006
• Connecting Cultures and Colors: First Kyrgyz-American Quilt Exhibit Museum of Fine Art in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 2006
• Miniature Art Textiles: Second International Invitational Ocean County Artists' Guild, Island Heights, NJ 2005
• Anniversary Invitational Louisville Art Gallery, Louisville, NE 2004
• Women’s Invitational Art Exhibition Hillmer Art Gallery, College of Saint Mary, Omaha, NE 2003
  
• By Invitation Kansas Art Quilters, Juror: Robert Shaw, author of The Art Quilt, International Quilt Market, Kansas City, KS 2002
  
• Interpretations of Summertime Art League of Manatee County, Bradenton, FL 2002
  
• Fantastic Fibers Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY 2002
  
  

Selected Juried Exhibitions

• ArtQuilt Elements Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA 2008
• Blue Translations Gallery, Denver, CO 2008.
• Art Quilts XII: Current Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ 2007.
• Balancing Act Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale, MI 2007.
  
• The Creative Force 2006 Studio Art Quilt Associates, International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX. Juror: Paul J. Smith, former Director of the American Craft Museum
  (now the Museum of Arts and Design). One of 26 works chosen from 516 submitted. 2006
  
• Art Quilts XI:  Stages, Cycles & Fits Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ 2006
  
• Changing the World: One Thread at a Time Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ and Carrefour Europeean du Patchwork, Marine aux Mines,
  Haut-Rhin, France 2006
  
• Considering Quilts 2006: Artists Explore the Quilt Form Atlantic Center for the Arts at Harris House, New Smyrna Beach, FL 2006
• The Art and Soul of Quilting Anderson Art Center, Kenosha, WI 2006
  
• Fiber Focus Art Saint Louis, Juror: Bhakti Ziek, St. Louis Design Center, St. Louis, MO 2005
  
• Art Quilts X Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ 2005
  
• Square-Carre-Cuadrado: Women in Textile Art Biennial Iturriza Palace, Valencia, Venezuela 2004
  
• Digital Origins - Emerging American Textile Artists Eyedrum Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
  Showcasing the works of 26 artists who are considered to be the textile field's "next wave." 2004
  
• New Directions in Fiber CORE Gallery, Denver, CO 2004
  
• Small Works for Small Spaces Ayer Lofts Gallery, Lowell, MA 2004
  
• Fiber Celebration Loveland Museum Gallery, Loveland, CO 2004
  
• A Celebration of Quotable Visual Women Artists Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE 2004
  
• Elements Page-Walker Arts Center, Cary, NC 2004
  
• Small Fiber Works Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL 2004
  
• Eleventh Anniversary Show Carnegie Arts Center, Alliance, NE 2004
  
• Fiber Focus St. Louis Design Center, St. Louis, MO 2003
  
• Small Fiber Works Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL 2003
  
• Fiber Celebration Art Center of Estes Park, Estes Park, CO 2003
  
• Small Works Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2003
  
• Tenth Anniversary Show Carnegie Arts Center, Alliance, NE 2003
  
• Culture and Agriculture New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI 2003
  
• Fiber Celebration Tointon Gallery, Greeley, CO 2001
  
• Culture and Agriculture New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, W 2001
  
• Paper/Fiber 22 ARTS Iowa City, Juror: Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Iowa City, IA 2000
  
• Greater Midwest International Exhibition XV Central Missouri State University Art Center Gallery,
  Juror: Billi Rothove (Gallery Director, Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft), Warrensburg, MO 2000
  
• Twelfth Annual Women’s Work Fine Art Exhibit Old Court House Arts Center, Woodstock, IL 1999
  
• Fiber Celebration Art Center of Estes Park, Estes Park, CO 1999
  
• Surface Treatment: Surface Design on Fabric Fine Line Creative Arts Center, St. Charles, IL 1999
  
  

Selected National and International Touring Exhibitions

• The Creative Force Studio Art Quilt Associates. Juror: Rebecca Stevens, Consulting Curator of Contemporary Textiles, The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C. 2007-2008
  Fine Focus ’04 Venues included Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR 2004 – 2007
• Upon Reflection Kansas Art Quilters 2004 - 2005
  
• A Page From My Journal Quilts, Inc. Venues include The Hague, Netherlands 2003 - 2004
  
• Focus on Fifty: Dreaming the Garden 2003 - 2004
  
• Fine Focus ’02 Venues included School of Architecture Gallery Space, Flairda A&M University 2002 – 2005
  
• America From The Heart Quilts, Inc. Artwork responding to the events of 9/11. Venues include Barcelona,Spain 2002-2003
  
• Changing Perceptions Kansas Art Quilters 2002
  
• Outside the Box Kansas Art Quilters 2002
  
• QNM Sixth Biennial International Competition Venues included Innsbruck, Austria; creations & savoir faire, Paris; Musee des Tissues, Lyon, France. One of three works featured on exhibit preview website 1998-1999
  
  

Selected Small Group Exhibitions

• International Collage Exhibition Real Tart Gallery, Plymouth, New Zealand 2008
• Fiber Renaissance Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL 2007.
  
• Wood, Glass and Fiber: Mack Warren, Terry Bloodworth, Virginia A. Spiegel and Karen Stiehl Osborn Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO 2006
  
• Julaine Loftquist-Birch and Virginia A. Spiegel Church Street Gallery, Rockford, IL 2006
  
• Works from the Permanent Collection Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE 2006
  
• 9x12: Works on Paper Fort Worth Community Art Center, Fort Worth, TX 2006
  
• International Collage Exhibition Real Tart Gallery, Plymouth, New Zealand; Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram, TX 2006
  
• Am Fluss/By The River Kulturhaus Pusdorf, Bremen, Germany 2006
  
• Words and Images Lawrence Public Library Gallery, Lawrence, KS 2006
  
• Janet Ghio and Virginia A. Spiegel Aphrodite Gallery, Paducah, KY 2005
  
• Transformations: Three Artists/Three Months/Three Shows Jewish Community Center Art Gallery, Omaha, NE 2004
• Upon Reflection Beth Allison Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2005
  
• A Common Thread The Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN 2005
  
• A Celebration of Quotable Visual Women Artilements Page-Walker Arts Center, Cary, NC 2004
  
• A Common Thread The Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN 2004
  
• Fiber Footage: Five-Artist Show Jewish Communit Center, Omaha, NE 2003
• Group Exhibition Against The Wall Gallery, Lincoln, NE 2003
  
• A Common Thread The Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN 2003
  
• Wrapped in Cloth - The Human Figure in Textiles Online Exhibition, Tubac Center of the ARts, Tubac, AZ 2003
  
• Kimmel Gallery Dedication Exhibition Morton-James Library, Nebraska City, NE 2002
  
  

Catalogs

• A Sense of Place: Artists Working in Series and The Creative Force. 2007-2008 Double catalog available from Studio Art Quilt Associates.
• Balancing Act Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale, MI 2007
  
• Connecting Cultures and Colors: First Kyrgyz-American Quilt Exhibit Museum of Fine Art in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 2006
  
• The Creative Force Studio Art Quilt Associates, International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX 2006
  
• Tied Together: Textile Art in the 21st Century Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ. 2006
  
• Changing The World: One Thread At A Time Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ and Carrefour Europeean du Patchwork, Marine aux Mines,
  Haut-Rhin, France 2006
• International Collage Exhibition Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram Texas. 2006
  
• Fiber Focus Art St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 2005
• A Celebration of Quotable Women Artists Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE 2004
  
• Square-Carre-Cuadrado: Women in Textile Art Biennial Iturriza Palace, Valencia, Venezuela 2004
  
• Culture and Agriculture New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI 2003, 2002, 2001
  
• Fantastic Fibers Yeiser Center for the Arts, Paducah, KY 2002
• Paper/Fiber 22 Arts Iowa City, Iowa City, IA 2000
  
• Greater Midwest International Exhibition XV Central Missouri State University Art Center Gallery, Warrensburg, MO 2000
  
  

Reviews

• Art Quilt X: Narrative, Figurative, Abstract and Post Modern by Thelma Smith. "At first glance, "Correspondence: Joyful Lives" by Virginia A. Spiegel was a joyous collection of studio sweepings, but it was sneaky and deceptive. It pulled me in, demanding that I keep shortening my viewing focal length. It was insistent, and I realized how intentionally the artwork was arranged and how powerfully the thought was expressed." SAQA Newsletter, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter 2006), pgs. 17-20.
  
• Changing The World: One Thread At A Time by Diane Howell. "Virginia A. Spiegel's (Byron, Illinois) Four Hundred Songbirds is a tribute to how 400 migrating songbirds were killed in one night in Wisconsin by communication towers. The towers, abstracted rectangles created with stark color contrast, make the work stand out from a distance. It is the small red embroidery stitches representing the birds that gives it is poignancy and powerful message about the need to protect the smallest living things among us."
  Also published in SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) Journal, Spring 2006
  
• Daytona Beach News-Journal, "the radiant rags in 'Black Q" by Nebraska City, Neb.artist Virginia Spiegel seem to have been assembled on a sewing machine gone mad." April 5, 2004.
  
  

• Art, Nature, Creativity, Life.
  
• Guest Curator, Studio Art Quilt Associates, Passion, November 2007
  
• Re-start your art through an artist’s residency. SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) Journal, Summer 2007.
• Variations on a Theme: Printing and Using Tissue Paper in Collage. Cloth Paper Scissors, No. 11, (March/April 2007), pgs. 14-17.
• A Conversation Among Friends (Art book). Cloth Paper Scissors, No. 8, (Fall 2006), pgs. 60-65.
  
• Fiberart For A Cause: Fundraising, Building Community and Promoting Fiber Art. SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) Journal, p.11, Spring 2006.
  
• Submerged in Beeswax: A New Way To Collage. Cloth Paper Scissors, No. 3 (Spring 2005), pgs. 50 - 54. (Including photos of The Geometry of Bees series
• Lutradur: The Miracle Material. Cloth Paper Scissors, No. 1 (Winter 2004), pgs. 46 - 50. (Including photos of Portage)
  
• A Whirlwind of Activity American Quilter, Winter 1999, p. 46-47
  
  

Other Selected Publications

• Syracuse Post-Standarrd, "Patches Project Goes Global," December 12, 2007, p.2
  (Photo of Mother and Child; part of the International Fiber Collaborative).
• FiberARTS magazine. Vol. 33, No. 5 (April/May 2007), pg. 28. Photo.
  
• Creative Quilting: The Journal Project Bresenhan, K., Ed., Quilting Arts, 2006.
• Wrapped in a Quilt for a Cause Goldsmith, D. Quilter's World, p. 16 - 18, April 2007. Photo.
• The Alliance For American Quilts. Save Our Stories Project for the Center For The Quilt. Interview conducted by Karen Musgrave. 2006
  
• Breaking New Ground Surface Design Journal, Juried Gallery Issue, 2006
  
• Fiber Art in the Mailbox Egan,M., Fiberarts magazine, p. 26-27, April/May 2006. Photo.
  
• Art Marketing Action Online newsletter by Alyson B. Stanfield, Photo of Preserve #1, April 24, 2006.
  
• Surface Design Newsletter. Resources On The Web by Elaine Liipson: "Spiegel's galleries are inspiring, especially for thoseworking in small-size formats." Vol. 19, No. 1 Winter 2005, pg. 19.
  
• Nebraska City News Press "Women, bees inspire artist's work," March 3, 2004, p.1 (Photos of Geometry of Bees)
  
• Nebraska Life "Nebraska Art at the Governor's Mansion." September/October 2004, pgs/ 42 - 43.
  
• Omaha World-Herald Featured gallery exhibit "Transformations in Textiles," July 8, 2004, p. 8.
  
• The Arts in Action Lawrence Art Center, Vol. X, No. 2. (Nov. – Feb. 2004), p. 9 (Photo of "Self- Portrait with Leaves")
  
• The Journal, "Art -Tastics - Virginia Spiegel of Nebraska City showcased her mixed media works that incoporate paint, textiles and anything else that strikes this nationally-known artist's fancy." November 25, 2004
  
• Surface Design Journal of the Surface Design Association, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Winter 2003), p. 57 (Photo of "Go With the Flow #12)
  
• Nebraska City News Press "Wildwood shows three 'wild' artists", September 9, 2003, p.3 (Photo of "Growing")
  
• Quilting Arts magazine In The Spotlight, No. 10 (Summer 2003), pgs. 84-86 (Photos of "Go with the Flow" #8, #12 and #15.)
  
• Nebraska City News Press "Spiegel's Omaha display takes art quilting to new extremes," July 10, 2003, p. 1, 3.
  April 22, 2003, p. 4. , January 17, 2003, p. 1; October, 24, 2002, p. 10; February, 26, 2002, pgs.1, 8; May 13, 2000, p.1, 3; July 3, 1999, p.1, 3
  
• America: From the Heart Artists Respond to 11/11 Bresenhan, K., C&T Publishing, 2002, p. 27.
  
  

Professional Affiliations

Surface Design Association
Studio Art Quilt Associates
Founder - Fiberarts For A Cause. Over $150,000 raised in the past three years for the American Cancer Society