Permanent Collections

The Quetico Collection, Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada,
International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, Mexico
Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates
International Quilt Study Center, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Collection of the International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX
The Learning Connexion, Wellington, New Zealand
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
Women in Textile Arts, Miami, Florida

Invitational Exhibitions

• Exquisite Moment
  Juried Traveling Invitational, International Quilt Festival (Long Beach and Houston) 2013
• Inform/Reform
  Featured Artist - The Mansion at Strathmore, North Bethesda, Maryland, 2012
• Rituals
  Juried Traveling Invitational, Open European Quilt Championships (The Netherlands) and International Quilt Festival - Chicago. 2013. International Quilt Festival (Long Beach and Houston) 2012
• Beneath the Surface
  Juried Traveling Invitational, International Quilt Festival (Long Beach and Houston) 2010-2011
  
• Studio Art Quilt Associates @20: Art and Excellence
  Juror: Patricia Bolton. International Quilt Festival (Houston, Chicago, and Long Beach), National Quilt Museum and other venues. 2009 - 2011
  
• One of a Kind: Fiber and Furniture
  Charlevoix Circle of Arts, Charlevoix, MI 2010
  
• Art Quilts XII: Significant Stitching
  Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ 2009-2010
  
• Art Quilts XIII: Lucky Break
  Chandler Center for the Arts Chandler, AZ 2008
  
• New Focus 2008
  Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR 2008 - 2009
  
• Breaking Boundaries: Art of the Quilt
  Gallery 50, Traverse City, MI 2008
  
• A Sense of Place: Artists Working in Series
  Studio Art Quilt Associates, Sixteen artists. International Quilt Festival (Houston, Chicago and Long Beach), 2007-2008
  
• Art Quilts XII: Current
  Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ 2007
  
• 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
  
• Art Quilts XI:  Stages, Cycles & Fits
  Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ 2006
  
• Connecting Cultures and Colors: First Kyrgyz-American Quilt Exhibit
  Museum of Fine Art, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 2006
  
• Art Quilts X
  Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ 2005
  
• 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

• Form, Not Function
  Carnegie Center for Art and History, New Albany, IN 2013
• Form, Not Function
  Carnegie Center for Art and History, New Albany, IN 2012
• Interpretations 2011
  Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA 2011-2012
• Stitched Together: Art and Science
  Fermilab Art Gallery, Batavia, IL 2011-2012
• Quilt=Art=Quilt
  Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY 2011-2012
• WWW
  Northfield Arts Guild, Northfield, MN 2011
• Watershed
  Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN 2011
• Material Ways
  Fine Line Creative Arts Center, St. Charles, IL 2011
• Creative Force 2010
  Juror: Chunghei Lee. Supported by a National Endowment for the Arts grant. 2010-2011
• ArtQuilt Elements
  Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA 2010
• Foto-Fiber-Fabulous
  Fiber Artspace, Blue Star Art Complex, San Antonio, TX, 2009
• Salvaged Threads
  Toucan Gallery, Billings, MT 2008.
  
• Threadlines
  Missouri State University Art & Design Gallery. Juror: Jason Pollen,
  President, Surface Design Association 2008.
• ArtQuilt Elements
  Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA 2008.
• Blue
  Translations Gallery, Denver, CO 2008.
• The Creative Force
  Studio Art Quilt Associates, International Quilt Festival (Houston, Chicago and Long Beach). Juror: Rebecca A. Stevens, Consulting Curator of Contemporary Textiles, The Textiles Museum, Washington, D.C. 2007-2008.
• Balancing Act
  Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale, MI 2007.
  
• The Creative Force
  Studio Art Quilt Associates, International Quilt Festival (Houston and Chicago) 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 - 2007.
  
• Changing the World: One Thread at a Time
  Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ and Carrefour European 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
  
• 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
  

Solo Shows

Selected Small Group Exhibitions

• Merge and Flow, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota West Bank Gallery, 2011
• Surface Matters, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO 2009
  International Collage Exhibition Real Tart Gallery, Plymouth, New Zealand 2008
• 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 Common Thread The Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN 2004
  
• Fiber Footage: Five-Artist Show Jewish Community 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
  

Other Touring Exhibitions

• 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, Florida 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 Publications

Catalogs

Form, Not Function
Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN 2013

Rituals
Dinner at Eight Artists, 2012

Juror's Statement
Sightlines, 2010

ArtQuilt Elements
Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA 2010

Creative Force 2010
Studio Art Quilt Associates, Supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

Beneath the Surface
Dinner at Eight Artists, 2010

SAQA@20
Studio Art Quilt Associates 2009-2010

ArtQuilt Elements
Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA 2008

A Sense of Place: Artists Working in Series
Studio Art Quilt Associates 2007-2008

The Creative Force
Studio Art Quilt Associates 2007-2008

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, Traveling Exhibition 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

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 XII: Lucky Break by Linda McCurry. "For some of the artists, the show yet another opportunity to extend their well-know series work. Virginia Spiegel's Boundary Waters #32, Barbara Jucaki's Spring Brookside, Linda Colsh's Drawing on the Mist, and Eileen Lauterborn's Unknown Territory all covered familiar themes." Studio Art Quilt Associates Journal, Vol 19, No. 3 (Summer 2009), pgs. 16-17.

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 Journal, 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.

Interviews
With Lesley Riley, Art and Soul Radio (2012)
With Sue Bleiweiss (2011)
With Patricia (Pokey) Bolton (2010)
With Karen Musgrave (2006)