Permanent Collections

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

Invitational Exhibitions

Beneath the Surface Juried Traveling Invitational, International Quilt Festival (Long Beach and Houston) 2010-2011
One of a Kind: Fiber And Furniture Charlevoix Circle of Arts, Charlevoix, MI 2010
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.
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 Kim Ritter and Judy B. Dales, Curators. 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, Peg Keeney, Curator. 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 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

  • 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 200.
  • 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.
  • 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 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
  • 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 Awards and Honors

Exhibit curator - Sightlines. Studio Art Quilt Associates. Invitational for fourteen artists. Venues include three International Quilt Festivals. 2010.
Juror - Blurred Boundaries: Mixed Media Fiber Art Michigan, 2009.
Juror - Journal Quilt Project II. With Jeanne Williamson. Venues include three International Quilt Festivals in 2008-2009
Guest Curator - Studio Art Quilt Associates, Passion, November 2007
Juror - Doing Small Things. Fiberarts Connection of Southern California 2006
Water, Tree, Rock, and Sky: Boundary Waters archived in the permanent collection of the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln.
Honorable Mention Breaking Boundaries:Art of the Quilt. Invitational Exhibit, Gallery 50,
Traverse City, MI 2008
Exhibit postcard artwork. Blue. Translations Gallery, Denver, CO 2008
Guest Quilting Arts TV, Series 300. 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
Exhibit postcard artwork. Art Quilts XI:  Stages, Cycles & Fits Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ 2006
Sponsor Purchase Award Fiber Focus 2005, Art Saint Louis Gallery, St. Louis, MO 2005
Second Place Eleventh Anniversary Show, Carnegie Arts Center, Alliance, NE 2004
Second Place 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

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

Artist-in-Residence

Great Expectations Creativity Center, Quilts, Inc., LaGrange, TX February 1- 28, 2009
Great Expectations Creativity Center, Quilts, Inc., LaGrange, TX January 9 - February 5, 2007
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE November 2005

Selected National and International Touring Exhibitions

  • Creative Force 2010 Studio Art Quilt Associates 2010-2011
  • Beneath the Surface 2010-2011
  • SAQA@20 Studio Art Quilt Associates 2009-2011
  • The Creative Force Studio Art Quilt Associates 2007-2008
  • Fiber Renaissance 2007-2008
  • The Creative Force Studio Art Quilt Associates 2006-2007
  • 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, 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 Small Group Exhibitions

  • 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
Selected Publications

Catalogs

  • ArtQuilt Elements Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA 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
  • 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 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, Barabara 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
Author
  • Digital Quilts?, Valley Fiber Life, 2010
  • Karen Stiehl Osborn: A New Direction, Valley Fiber Life, 2010.
  • Wild at the Edges: Inspiration from a Creative Life. 2009
  • What makes a series work? Studio Art Quilt Associates Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter 2009, pgs. 9,30.
  • So What, For Me, Makes a Series Work? Contemporary Quilt, Newsletter of Contemporary Quilt Special Interest Group of the Quilters' Guild of the British Isles. Vol. 2, No. 19 July 2008,
    pgs.10 - 12.
  • Screen Printing Techniques and Inspirations. Fibre&Stitch. No. 4, May 2008, pgs. 69 - 74.
  • Art, Nature, Creativity, Life, an eBook fundraiser for the American Cancer Society.
  • From Studio Journal to Art Quilt. Fibre&Stitch. No. 3, 2008.
  • The Garbage Day Project Garbage, Art and Recycling Blog. 2006-2008.
  • Re-start your art through an artist’s residency. 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

  • 500 Art Quilts. Ray Hemachandra and Karey Bresenhan. Lark Books. 2010
  • Surface Design Essentials. Jane Davila. 2010
  • 1000 Artisan Textiles: Contemporary Fiber Art, Quilts, and Wearables, Sandra Salamony and Gina M. Brown. Quarry Books. 2010
  • Social Networking Online, Part 2 by Gloria Hansen. The Professional Quilter, Summer 2009, p.22.
  • Print on Demand: To Blurb by Gloria Hansen. The Professional Quilter, Spring 2010.
  • Art Quilts at Play. Jane Davila and Elin Waterston. 2009
  • Forest Lake Press "Artist turns passion into huge Relay For Life fundraiser," April 29, 2009,
    p.1.
  • Lake Murray/Columbia Magazine "Cyber Fyber" January 2009, p. 22.
  • Creating Art for the Cancer Cause. Education@Iowa Alumni Magazine, Spring 2008, p. 7.
  • The Quilt: A History and Celebration of an American Art Form. Schebler Roberts, E., MBI Publishing, 2007.
  • Syracuse Post-Standard. "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.
  • 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.
  • 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, p. 26-27, April/May 2006.
  • 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 Lipson: "Spiegel's galleries are inspiring, especially for those working 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.
  • 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.
  • The Journal, "Art -Tastics - Virginia Spiegel of Nebraska City showcased her mixed media works that incorporate 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.
  • Nebraska City News Press "Wildwood shows three 'wild' artists", September 9, 2003, p.3.
  • Quilting Arts magazine In The Spotlight, No. 10 (Summer 2003), pgs. 84-86.
  • 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.
    See also: Fiberart For A Cause publications.

Professional Affiliations

Surface Design Association
Studio Art Quilt Associates
Founder - Fiberarts For A Cause. 2005 - 2010 Over $205,000 donated to the American Cancer Society. Top Ten nationwide fundraiser 2006 - 2008.

Education

Ph.D. University of Iowa
M.S. Purdue University