Nancy Dobson
CURRENT POSITION:
Business owner, 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:
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