The world seems intent on eliminating personal, unmeasured time. Tapestry weaving in contrast is a slow process, allowing space and time to think. I love working and thinking with my hands: I draw, make woven samples, weave scarves and indispensable to all of this is an ongoing passion for texture, pattern and color.
One of two elements is always present in my work, either story telling or the natural world (whether wild or domesticated). I then create a more abstracted sense of these ideas or experiences through the layering of pattern and color.
As an artist weaver I consider myself both a contemporary practitioner and a part of a longer continuum that is thousands of years old. This idea is both a comfort and a challenge.
One of two elements is always present in my work, either story telling or the natural world (whether wild or domesticated). I then create a more abstracted sense of these ideas or experiences through the layering of pattern and color.
As an artist weaver I consider myself both a contemporary practitioner and a part of a longer continuum that is thousands of years old. This idea is both a comfort and a challenge.
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SELECTED BIOGRAPHY
EXHIBITIONS
2022 Fiberarts International 2022 Contemporary Craft, Pittsburg, PA
Three Voices Clayton Center for the Arts, Denso Gallery, Knoxville, TN
New Works by Tapestry Weavers South Elkins, NC
2021 Memphis 2021 Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN
2019 Point of View Foothill Arts Council, Yadkin Valley Fiber Center, Elkin, NC
The Blue Show Crosstown Arts, Memphis,
Transformation: Fiber as Medium online exhibition, The Common Thread Gallery, Trout Run, PA
Small Expressions 2019 traveling exhibition: SE Fiber Arts Alliance, Chamblee, GA, J.Wayne Stark Galleries, College Station, TX,
Judy & Allan Schuman Museum Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, Thousand Island Arts Center, Clayton, NY
Arrowmont Instructor Exhibition Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2018 A Strand, A Shape, A Story Folk Art Center Asheville, NC
World Tapestry Now online exhibition, American Tapestry Alliance website
Best of Tennessee Craft Custom House Museum, Clarksville, TN
Here & Now: Printmaking & the Political Present Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
2017 Filaments Wellborn Gallery, Yadkin Cultural Arts Center Yadkinville, NC
Path of the Weaver Germantown Performing Arts Center, Germantown, TN
Excellence in Fibers 2017 online gallery, Fiber Art Network
2016 Interwoven: Textiles & Drawings by Jennifer Sargent Beverly and Sam Ross Gallery, Christian University, Memphis, TN
Six Points Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN
20th Anniversary Show Tapestry Weavers South Yadkin Cultural Arts Center, Yadkinville, NC
Pattern Recognition: New Works by Jennifer Sargent Levy Gallery, Buckman Performing and Fine Arts Center, Memphis, TN
2015 Belongings Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN
SCE II Masonic Contemporary Memphis, TN
57th Delta Exhibition Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2014 Measuring Time: Jennifer Sargent and Judd Lotts Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ
Continuing Conversations traveling exhibition: Barton Art Galleries, Barton College, Wilson, NC, Hobson Pittman Gallery,
Blount-Bridgers House, Tarboro, NC
This Art Has Cooties Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN
American Tapestry Biennial 10 traveling exhibition: Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA, Kent State University Museum, Kent OH,
Kaneko, Omaha, NE
AWARDS
2022 Master Artist Tennessee Craft
2018 Merit Award Best of Tennessee Craft, Custom House Museum, Clarksville, TN
2016 Inductee Costume & Textile Institute Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
2013 Commissioned Artist to honor Carolyn Hardy, Chief Executive Chism Hardy Investments LLC
Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis, 2013 Legends Award
2011 3rd Place, Purchase Award Small Expressions Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
2007 2nd Place, Purchase Award Fiber Directions 2007 The Wichita Center For The Arts, Wichita, KS
2007 Intermountain Weavers Award for Excellence Fiber Celebrated Durango Arts Center, Durango, CO
2005 1st Place, Golden Anniversary Award Golden Threads: Connecting Innovation and Tradition
Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA
2005 Creative Innovations Award of Excellence, Weaving Award of Excellence Fiber Focus 2005
Art St Louis Gallery, St Louis, MO
2004 Individual Artist Fellowship Tennessee Arts Commission
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arnoult & Associates Inc. Memphis, TN
Memphis City Collection, Memphis, TN
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
Christian Brothers University, Memphis, Tennessee
Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis, Memphis, TN
WORKSHOPS Instructor
2022 Single Tapestry: Doubled Warp American Tapestry Alliance retreat, Knoxville, TN
2019 The New World Order of Tapestry Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2019 Woven Tapestry & The Language of Color Fiber Forum 2019, Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN
2018 Presenter Tapestry Weavers South Retreat, St Simons Island, GA
2014 Beginning / Intermediate Tapestry Mountain Spinners and Weavers Guild, Prescott, AZ
2013 Embroidery for Drawing Flicker Street Studio, Memphis, TN
2006 Supplementary and Painted Warps Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ
2004 Tapestry: Woven Image Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
EXHIBITIONS
2022 Fiberarts International 2022 Contemporary Craft, Pittsburg, PA
Three Voices Clayton Center for the Arts, Denso Gallery, Knoxville, TN
New Works by Tapestry Weavers South Elkins, NC
2021 Memphis 2021 Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN
2019 Point of View Foothill Arts Council, Yadkin Valley Fiber Center, Elkin, NC
The Blue Show Crosstown Arts, Memphis,
Transformation: Fiber as Medium online exhibition, The Common Thread Gallery, Trout Run, PA
Small Expressions 2019 traveling exhibition: SE Fiber Arts Alliance, Chamblee, GA, J.Wayne Stark Galleries, College Station, TX,
Judy & Allan Schuman Museum Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, Thousand Island Arts Center, Clayton, NY
Arrowmont Instructor Exhibition Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2018 A Strand, A Shape, A Story Folk Art Center Asheville, NC
World Tapestry Now online exhibition, American Tapestry Alliance website
Best of Tennessee Craft Custom House Museum, Clarksville, TN
Here & Now: Printmaking & the Political Present Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
2017 Filaments Wellborn Gallery, Yadkin Cultural Arts Center Yadkinville, NC
Path of the Weaver Germantown Performing Arts Center, Germantown, TN
Excellence in Fibers 2017 online gallery, Fiber Art Network
2016 Interwoven: Textiles & Drawings by Jennifer Sargent Beverly and Sam Ross Gallery, Christian University, Memphis, TN
Six Points Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN
20th Anniversary Show Tapestry Weavers South Yadkin Cultural Arts Center, Yadkinville, NC
Pattern Recognition: New Works by Jennifer Sargent Levy Gallery, Buckman Performing and Fine Arts Center, Memphis, TN
2015 Belongings Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN
SCE II Masonic Contemporary Memphis, TN
57th Delta Exhibition Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2014 Measuring Time: Jennifer Sargent and Judd Lotts Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ
Continuing Conversations traveling exhibition: Barton Art Galleries, Barton College, Wilson, NC, Hobson Pittman Gallery,
Blount-Bridgers House, Tarboro, NC
This Art Has Cooties Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN
American Tapestry Biennial 10 traveling exhibition: Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA, Kent State University Museum, Kent OH,
Kaneko, Omaha, NE
AWARDS
2022 Master Artist Tennessee Craft
2018 Merit Award Best of Tennessee Craft, Custom House Museum, Clarksville, TN
2016 Inductee Costume & Textile Institute Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
2013 Commissioned Artist to honor Carolyn Hardy, Chief Executive Chism Hardy Investments LLC
Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis, 2013 Legends Award
2011 3rd Place, Purchase Award Small Expressions Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
2007 2nd Place, Purchase Award Fiber Directions 2007 The Wichita Center For The Arts, Wichita, KS
2007 Intermountain Weavers Award for Excellence Fiber Celebrated Durango Arts Center, Durango, CO
2005 1st Place, Golden Anniversary Award Golden Threads: Connecting Innovation and Tradition
Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA
2005 Creative Innovations Award of Excellence, Weaving Award of Excellence Fiber Focus 2005
Art St Louis Gallery, St Louis, MO
2004 Individual Artist Fellowship Tennessee Arts Commission
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arnoult & Associates Inc. Memphis, TN
Memphis City Collection, Memphis, TN
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
Christian Brothers University, Memphis, Tennessee
Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis, Memphis, TN
WORKSHOPS Instructor
2022 Single Tapestry: Doubled Warp American Tapestry Alliance retreat, Knoxville, TN
2019 The New World Order of Tapestry Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2019 Woven Tapestry & The Language of Color Fiber Forum 2019, Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN
2018 Presenter Tapestry Weavers South Retreat, St Simons Island, GA
2014 Beginning / Intermediate Tapestry Mountain Spinners and Weavers Guild, Prescott, AZ
2013 Embroidery for Drawing Flicker Street Studio, Memphis, TN
2006 Supplementary and Painted Warps Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ
2004 Tapestry: Woven Image Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
