elaine longtemps

EDUCATION

BFA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

Rhode Island School of Design European Honors Program in conjunction with The U.S. Experiment in International Living, Rome, Italy

Pratt Institute Graphic Art Center, New York City, work scholarship

Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, New York, Max Beckman Scholarship Program

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

December 6 - February 19, 2012 Crossing Lines: The Many Faces of Fiber
Three World Financial Center
Juror: Rebecca A.T.Stevens, Consulting Curator, Contemporary Textiles,
The Textile Museum, Washington D.C.
(see Extension/Velocity under MUSIC for more details)

February 9, 2012 Crossing Lines Panel Discussion at the World Financial Center
Moderated by Juror Rebecca A. T. Stevens

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2011 Green:The Color and The Cause, The Textile Museum, Washington D.C. Jurors: Lee A. Talbot, Associate Curator, Easter Hemisphere Collections; Rebecca A.T. Stevens, Consulting Curator, Contemporary Textiles

2011 Northeast Regional Contemporary Fiber Exhibition; Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY

2011 National Fiber Directions Exhibition 2011; The Wichita Center For The Arts, Wichita, Kansas

2011 Fiber Plus; Arle Sklar-Weinstein, curator, The Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY

2011 Uncommon Threads; Carol Schepps, curator, Trenton Artworks, Trenton, NJ

2011 25th International Juried Show Silver Anniversary; Juror: Joan Young, Associate Curator of contemporary Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ

2010 Fiber: Twentyten; juror: Kay Khan, nationally known fibre artist; Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, Missouri

2010 GALEX 44 National Competition; juror: Jim Richerson, international museum consultant; Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, Illinois

2009 Bearing Witness: Art as Social Action Hosted by ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago, Illinois juror: Barbara Fish, professor Dept of Psychiatry University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art Institute of Chicago

2009 Katharine Butler Gallery 4th Annual National Juried Exhibition; juror: Roy Slade, former director Corcoran Gallery of Art, director emeritus Cranbrook Art Museum; Sarasota, Florida

2009 CONTINUUM, Studio Montclair's 2009 Annual Exhibition; juror: Patterson Simms, director, Montclair Art Museum; George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey

2009 Visual Art Center of New Jersey 23rd International Juried Show; juror: Adelina Vlas, assistant curator for modern and contemporary art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey

2009 Allentown Art Museum's 30th Juried Show, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

2008 59th Annual Art of The Northeast; juror: Thom Collins, director, Neuberger Museum of Art; Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut

2008 Surface: Layered; jurors: Alan Petersen, curator, Museum of Northern Arizona; Ruth Garrison, quilt artist; Melanie Testa, fibre artist and coordinator of the Surface:Layered Symposium; Coconino Community College, Flagstaff, Arizona

2008 Bend, Fold, Manipulate For Peace; juror/curator: Mary Kroetsch, Talisman Fibre Arts Studio; ACA Gallery,Toronto, Canada

2008 Contemporary Fiber; juror: Nisha Drinkard, William Paterson University; curator: Sophia Gevas, director; The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut

2003 Fiber Directions 2003; juror: Jason Pollen, internationally-known textile designer, president of The Surface Design Association, chair of Fiber Arts at Kansas City Art Institute; Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas

2000 The Butler Institute of American Art 64th Annual Midyear Exhibition; curator: Robert Kurtz, The Butler Institute of American Art; juror: Keith Sonnier, internationally-known artist; Youngstown, Ohio

1997 Carving the Forces of Change: Celebrating Women in the Arts (Women's Caucus for Art 25th Anniversary Exhibition); curator: Faith Ringgold, internationally-known artist and political activist; Artemisia, Chicago

1997 Creative Arts Guild 10th Annual Fiber Arts Competition and Exhibition; juror/curator: Ed Lambert, fiber artist, Associate Professor of Art, University of Georgia; Dalton, Georgia

1996 New Directions '96; juror: Beth Venn, associate curator of permanent collection, Whitney Museum of American Art; Barrett House Galleries, Poughkeepsie, New York

1996 25th Juried Show; curator: Sarah Anne McNear; juror: Susan Krane, curator of modern and contemporary art, The High Museum; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania

1995 Ana 24; curator: Peter Held; juror: Lloyd Herman, founding director, Smithsonian Institute's Renwick Gallery; The Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana

1995 Color Now; curator: Judy Herman; juror: Terrie Sultan, curator of contemporary art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art;Main Line Art Center, Haverford, Pennsylvania

1994 40th National Juried Exhibition; curator: Shirley Biennese; juror: Elizabeth Armstrong; curator, Walker Art Center; San Diego Art Institute, San Diego

1994 Contemporary Artists Center All-Media Summer Exhibition; curator: Brandon Graving; jurors: Clare Bell, curator, Guggenheim Museum; Ivan Karp, director, OK Harris; Berkshire School of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts

1993 Momento Mori: Remembering in the Age of AIDS; Open Space Gallery, Allentown, Pennsylvania

1993 Mixed Media; Multi-Media Art Gallery, New York City

1971 22nd New England Exhibition; The Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan, CT

1970 Frontal Images '70: Mississippi Art Association 60th Annual National Competitive Exhibition; Jackson, Mississippi

1968 Eighteen Young Artists; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York

1968 Solo Exhibition; Fort Hays Kansas State College, Hays, Kansas

1968 Chautauqua Exhibition of American Art; Chautauqua Gallery of Art, Chautauqua, New York

1968 Aspects Gallery, New York City

1968 Aegis Gallery, New York City

1966 6th Annual Mercyhurst National Exhibition of American Drawing; Erie Art Cente, Erie, PA

1964 Hinckley and Brohel Gallery; New York City and Washington DC

COLLABORATIONS

Inversions visuals by Elaine Longtemps, computer music and new notation composed by Sean Longtemps

Musicgraphics visuals by Elaine Longtemps, The Song of the Gopis music composed by Mona Hector

BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Fiber Plus", book published by Blue Door Gallery, 2011

Rochester City Newspaper, NY, "Peacefulness and politics" by Rebecca Rafferty, April 13-19, 2011

Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY, March 31, 2011

Surface Design Magazine, "Creative Exploration of Fiber and Fabric, Exposure", Winter 2010

In A New York Minute, "New York State--Fertile Soil for Fiber Art", Jeanne Raffer Beck, New York State Representative for The Surface Design Association, Sept 23, 2008

Connecticut Post, "Beauty of Fiber," Phyllis A.S. Boros, April 27, 2008

Fiber Art News, January 2003

RISD Views, Summer 2003, Fall 2000, May/June 1995, March/April 1995

Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago, Pamphlets, Call No P-29728

The Morning Call, PA, "Juried Show A Vision of Delights Restored," Geoff Gehman, January 21, 1996

The Philadelphia Inquirer, "A Haverford Center's True Colors Emerge in Contemporary Exhibit," Victoria Donohue, Inquirer Art Critic, April 1995

Main Line Art Center Juror's Statement for Color Now, Terrie Sultan, Corcoran Gallery of Art, April 1995

Berkshires Week, "A Cornucopia of Fine Arts," Daniel Grant, June 9, 1994

The Transcript, "Beaver Mill Site Gallery Season to Open," Rosemary Jette, June 9, 1994

Contemporary Artists Center Press Release, Brandon Graving, June 1994

Phoenix, "American Street Art," Brooklyn, New York 1976

Phoenix, "Children See Things From A New Perspective," Carroll Sugg, Brooklyn, New York, 1973

The Tablet, "This Jungle Is Safe," New York, April 22, 1971

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
Honorarium, 23rd Annual International, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey
Honorarium, Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, Georgia
The John McKee Memorial Award, San Diego Art Institute (for Cross By The Side Of The Road)
Recognition by McDonald's Corp as curator for the show Main Street, USA
Juror's Merit Award, Mississippi Art Association
Max Beckman Scholarship Program, Brooklyn Museum Art School
European Honors Program, Rhode Island School of Design
Sidney Richmond-Burleigh Scholarship

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, New York
Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, New York
Surface Design Association, Sebastopol, California
Web Gallery Curator for the Textile Study Group of New York, New York City
Friends of Fiber Art International, Western Springs, Illinois
International Sculpture Center, Washington DC
American Craft Council, New York City
Alumnus of The U.S. Experiment in International Living

CLIENTS
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
Chanticleer Press, New York
Doubleday, New York
Sierra Club, San Francisco
The Oxford Shops, New Haven, Connecticut

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Leo and Diane Dillon, Brooklyn, New York
Florence Parry Heide, Kenosha, Wisconsin
Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Salguero, Brooklyn, New York
Peter Coriaty, Brooklyn, New York
Mrs. Robert Genovese, Washington DC
Florence Adams, Brooklyn, New York
Mr. and Mrs. John Grammer, Brooklyn, New York
Mr. and Mrs. George Disegni, Lakehurst, New Jersey
Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Anderson, Florence, South Carolina