Nancy Dobson
CURRENT POSITION:
Artist, Spindrift Designs, a home based studio specializing in quilted and mixed media artwork and hand dyed fabrics.
EDUCATION:
Various art / quilt workshops, 1998 – present; Beginning Surface Design, Kenai Peninsula College 1993; A.S., Fashion Design, Harcum College, Bryn Mawr, PA 1978
COMMISSIONS IN PUBLIC SPACES:
Elmendorf Air Force Base Hospital, Anchorage, AK
INVITATIONALS:
National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, Baker City, Oregon: "Nature of the West: Contemporary Quilts"
Alaska Home Magazine: Featured Artist ~ Fall, 2006 issue
EXHIBITIONS:
2008 Alaska Fiber Festival Quilt Walk, Snow City Cafe, Anchorage, Alaska
2007 Kaladi Brother's Coffee Shop, Anchorage, Alaska
2006 Alaska Fiber Festival Juried Quilt Show, Alaska Fiber Festival Quilt Walk
2005 Queensland Quilt Show/Australia, Fairweather Prints Gallery: Sitka, Alaska, The Completed Quilt: Palmer, Alaska
2003 Side Street Café (Anchorage), Snow City Cafe (Anchorage), Borders Books, Music & Café (Anchorage), Up North Store & Gallery, Anchorage
2002 Bear Paw Small Quilt Auction & Show (Eagle River, AK), Borders Books, Music & Café (Anchorage), Vagabond Blues Café (Palmer, AK)
2001 Anchorage Log Cabin Quilter’s Small Quilt Auction, The Finer Things Gallery (Anchorage), Borders Books, Music & Café (Anchorage), Kenai Visitors Center (Kenai, AK), Gesine’s Restaurant (Anchorage), Bear Paw Small Quilt Auction & Show (Eagle River, AK), 2001
2000 Borders Books, Music & Café (Anchorage), Sleepy Dog Coffee Company (Eagle River, AK), Anchorage City of Lights 2000 Celebration, Bear Paw Small Quilt Auction & Show (Eagle River, AK)
1999 Great Alaska Quilts, Bear Paw Small Quilt Auction & Show (Eagle River, AK)
1998 Bear Paw Small Quilt Auction & Show (Eagle River, AK)
1997 Bear Paw Small Quilt Auction & Show (Eagle River, AK)
1996 Bear Paw Small Quilt Auction & Show (Eagle River, AK), Sleepy Dog Coffee Company (Eagle River, AK)
1993 Kenai Open Art Show (Kenai, AK)
2001 Bear Paw Small Quilt Auction & Show~ 2nd place member choice award
2000 Rhodeside Quilt Market Challenge~ 1st place tie
1999 Rhodeside Quilt Market Challenge~ 1st place
1997 Bear Paw Small Quilt Auction & Show~ 2nd place member’s choice award
1993 Kenai Open Art Show~ 4th place & honorable mention
MEMBERSHIPS:
Association of Pacific Northwest Quilters, Chugach Mountain Quilters Guild, NoNaMee Fibre Artists, Surface Design Association