Linda Dunn

About Linda

Our experience shapes us. But memory is fluid. Age changes our memories. Death erases them. My work is rooted in the compelling awareness that self-definition is a function of time.

I work with primarily with old fabric because I feel memories are imbedded in their threads. I over-dye and print on these, and build my pieces with layers of paint, fabric, glue and stitch. Each piece is a journey. Meaning accrues as I layer images and marks. The process is essential and mysterious: a gift that is full of joy.

Selected Juried Exhibits

2011

Moment of Pure Seeing, 2-person show, Loading Dock Gallery, Lowell, MA

2011

No Holds Barred, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA

2010 Holiday Arts, Stebbins Gallery, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
2010

Fabric of Imagination, invitational, ALL Gallery, Lowell, MA, 2019

2009

The Fabulous Print Show, invitational, Artstream Gallery, Rochester, NH

2009

Women in Print, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston MA

2008

Body Bazaar, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA

2008

Fabric of Legacies, Lincoln Center Galleries, Fort Collins, CO

2008

Botanical Influences, Owen Shuman Gallery, Groton, MA, invitational

2008

Women of the Cloth, Bunker Hill Community College

2008

Up in Stitches, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY

2007-2009

Fiber Force: A Futuristic Approach, invitational, traveling 2007-2009. Venues include Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton, VA, Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara CA and the Denver National Quilt Festival, Denver, CO.

2007

Scrolls, Western Avenue Studios, Lowell, MA,

2007

Sum of Parts, Surface Design Association, traveling 2007-2010. Venues include the J. Wayne Stark Gallery, College Station, TX; the Goldstein Museum of Design, St. Paul, MN; and the Hansen Memorial Museum, Logan, KS,

2007

Art Quilts Lowell, Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA

2007

Paste-up, Ayers Loft Art Gallery, Lowell, MA

2006

Surface Tension, James Howe Gallery, Kean University , Union , NJ

2006

Small Art Quilt Works , The Main Street Gallery, Groton , NY

2006-2009

Forgetting Piece by Piece, Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative, traveling

2006-2007

ARTQUILTSimages, Professional Art Quilt Alliance-South, traveling

2006

Men, Women, Feminine, Masculine, Ayers Lofts Art Gallery , Lowell , MA

2005

Form Not Function , The Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany , IN

2005

Small Art Quilt Works , The Main Street Gallery, Groton NY , Honorable Mention

2005

Sacred Threads, Reynoldsburg , OH

2005

Self-Portraits: Inside and Out, Ayers Lofts Art Gallery , Lowell , MA

Professional Experience

Instructor, fiber arts, Arlington Center for the Arts, 2010-present
Instructor, watercolor, Carleton-Willard Village, 2008-present
Independent instructor, textile arts, 2007-present
Owner, Dunn Designs, 1994-present
Freelance textile designer, 1991-4
Intern, Costume and Textiles Department, RISD Museum, Providence, RI, 1990
BFA, Textile Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1991

Catalogues/Books/Interviews

Body & Soul, January 2010
Insights and Observations, September 2009
Fabrication of Imagination, August 2009
Sharing Studio Space: Lowell Fiber Studio, Quilting Arts, images, July 2009
Save Our Stories, Interview, 2008
Fiber Force: A Futuristic Approach, catalogue, 2007                                                             
SAQA Journal, images, volume 17, No. 4, Fall, 2007                                                              
AAHSA 2007, image, convention catalogue, 2007                                                                  
Burlington Free Press, interview, 2007                                                                                 
Sum of Parts, catalogue and DVD, 2007
Alzheimer’s: Forgetting Piece by Piece, book and DVD, 2006


Awards

Nautilus Project, Judge’s Choice, Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster MA 2005
Small Art Quilt Works, Groton NY, Honorable Mention, 2005                                                
Rhode Island School of Design, award for excellence, 1991   

Commissions

Bonheur, R. Phillips, Winchester, MA 2011
Still Waters, P. Antelyes, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2009
My Mother, N. Jones, Cambridge, MA 2009
Healing Pieces, Visiting Nurses Association of Lowell, 2008
Maine Morning, S. Stocker, Bolton, MA 2007
Listen to the Sun, private collection, Cambridge, MA 2006