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About

For twenty-five years I was a Biological Anthropologist studying and then teaching at Kent State University.  My research area was the ecology and behavior of New World monkeys.

 

Some years ago, I resigned my tenured professorship to become a full-time textile artist.

Since then I have exhibited my hand-dyed quilts in numerous national and international shows, and my work is included in many public and private collections.


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EDUCATION

International Diploma  Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. London, UK

Ph.D.  Biological Anthropology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024 

Mostly Pink Monongalia   Art Center, Morgantown ,WV Invited

Quilt=Art=Quilt  Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn NY Juried

Not Nostalgia Trumbull Art Gallery, Warren OH Invited

Artist as Quiltmaker XX Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin OH Juried

Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh Exhibition Erie Art Museum, Erie PA Juried


2023

Mary Lou Alexander. A Retrospective  Regina Quick Center for the Arts, St. Bonaventure University, Olean, NY. Solo

Quilt=Art=Quilt Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY Juried

New Masters III Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, OH Juried


2022 

Artist as Quiltmaker XIX   Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin OH   Juried

Fur, Fangs, Feathers and Fins  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Tucson AZ and touring thru 2026 Juried

Being - With Surface Design Association Online Exhibition Winter 2022  Juried

https://www.surfacedesign.org Invited

SAQA Artist Showcase Featured Artist March 2022  https://www.saqa.com


2021   

Archive   Surface Design Association Online Exhibition https://www.surfacedesign.org Invited 

Form Not Function  Carnegie Center for the Arts, New Albany IN  Honorable Mention Juried

Out of the Funk  Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Pittsburgh PA Juried

Best Of Ohio 2020-2021   Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus OH and traveling Juried

Quilt=Art=Quilt  Schweinfurth Center for the Arts, Auburn New York Juried

Expanding Lines  Foster Art Gallery, Westminster College,  New Wilmington PA Invited


2020  

On the Edge   SAQA Virtual Exhibition https://www.saqa.com Juried

Found Again  Art Quilt Network Exhibit  Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus OH Juried

New Masters 2   Wasmer Gallery Ursuline College, Pepper Pike OH Juried

2019  

Contemporary Fibers  Tovar House, Oldest House Complex, St Augustine FL Juried 

Best of Ohio 2019  Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH and traveling Juried


2018 

Peace and Justice   Delaware State University, Dover DE Juried

Inspired Seton Hall University.  Greensburg, PA Juried

Botanical Threads: Mary Lou Alexander and Peggy Lynn Cox  Weller Gallery,  Fellows Riverside Gardens, Youngstown OH and Foster Gallery, Westminster College,  New Wilmington, PA Invited

Artist as Quiltmaker  Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH Juried

Best of Ohio 2018  Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH and traveling Juried


2017  

With These Hands  Ross Art Museum, Delaware, OH Juried

blue   Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA Juried

Best of Ohio 2017   Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH  and traveling Juried


2016  

Material Pulses: Eight Viewpoints  Riffe Gallery, Ohio Statehouse, Columbus, OH and  traveling thru 2023 Invited


2015  

Inaugural Exhibition Edison Price Gallery, New York, NY Invited

International Threads  Prague Patchwork Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic Invited

Natural Dye Showcase   Mendocino Center for the Arts, Mendocino, CA Juried


2013  

DEUX  Ste Marie aux Mines, France and traveling Juried

Best of Ohio 2013  Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus OH and traveling Juried


2012  

Second Life   HeightsArts Gallery, Cleveland Heights, OH Invited

Creative Statements: Ohio Art Quilts 2012   Zanesville Museum of Art, Zanesville, OH Invited


2011   

Contemporary Quilts by Mary Lou Alexander   Foster Gallery, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA Solo


2010  

Color Improvisations: International Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Quilts  Haus der Wirtschaft, Stuttgart, Germany, and traveling thru 2013 Invited

Quilt=Art=Quilt 2010   Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY Juried


2009  

Mary Lou Alexander: Contemporary Quilts.  Humphrey Gallery, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH Solo 

Quilt National: The Best of Contemporary Quilts  The Dairy Barn. Athens, OH Juried

Form Not Function   Carnegie Center for Art and History, New Albany, IN Juried


2008  

Marbaum Collection: 25 Years of Contemporary Quilts  The Dairy Barn, Athens, OH Invited

Shibori Cut Loose  The Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN Juried 

Art Quilts Lowell  Brush Gallery, Lowell MA Juried


2006  

Threads and Fragments: Art Quilts by Mary Lou Alexander McDonough Museum, Youngstown, OH Solo


CURATOR/JUROR

2020   

Quilt=Art=Quilt 2020  Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY Juror 


2009   

Nancy Crow: New and Recent Works   Butler Institute of American Art, Trumbull Gallery, Howland, OH Curator


2008  

 Depth and Breadth: Six Quiltmakers in the Twenty-first Century  Butler Institute of American  Art, Trumbull Gallery, Howland, OH Curator


IN PRINT

2024  Art Quilting Studio  Volume 16 Issue 2 Metamorphosis Through Shibori by Mary Lou Alexander pp. 96-99

2022  Art Quilt Quarterly  Issue No. 28 Artist to Watch: Mary Lou Alexander and Cover Issue 28  pp.24-27

2021  Patchwork Professional   Interview: Mary Lou Alexander.  01/2022  pp.6-11

(in German)

2016   Columbus Dispatch  Colors Pop in the Riffe Gallery Exhibit of Quilts, Textiles.  

T. Tonguette   June 12

City Scene Columbus  Riffe Gallery Exhibition Looks at Art Quilting.  Gabriel Benton  April 1 

2014    Surface Design Magazine  Interpreting Nature: Piecing Abstraction.  Petra  Fallaux   Vol. 38. No.3 

 

 


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