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elaine longtemps
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ScholarshipPROFESSIONAL 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 LivingCLIENTS
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
Chanticleer Press, New York
Doubleday, New York
Sierra Club, San Francisco
The Oxford Shops, New Haven, ConnecticutPRIVATE 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