OCCUPATION: Artist
MEDIUM: Quiltmaking
BORN: Loudonville, Ohio (1943)
EDUCATION: Bachelor (1965) and Master (1969) of Fine Arts in Ceramics & Weaving from Ohio State University

PUBLISHED BOOKS:
• NANCY CROW, 2006, Breckling Press
• NANCY CROW: IMPROVISATIONAL QUILTS, 1995, C&T Publishing
• GRADATIONS: FROM THE STUDIO OF NANCY CROW, 1995, Quilt House Publishing
• NANCY CROW: WORK IN TRANSITION, 1992, American Quilters' Society
• NANCY CROW: QUILTS AND INFLUENCES, 1990, American Quilters' Society

BOOK COVERS:
My quilts have appeared on the covers of two of Maya Angelou's books published by Random House:
• COMPLETE COLLECTED POEMS OF MAYA ANGELOU (1994)
• WOULDN'T TAKE NOTHING FOR MY JOURNEY NOW (1993)

ORIGINATOR OF:
• QUILT NATIONAL
• QUILT/SURFACE DESIGN SYMPOSIUM
• ART QUILT NETWORK

COLLECTIONS:
• THE RENWICK GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D.C.
• THE MUSEUM OF ARTS & DESIGN, New York City
• THE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN FOLK ART, New York City
• MIAMI UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, Oxford, Ohio
• INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART, Indianapolis, Indiana

EXCHANGE ARTIST:
Mainland China, Shaanxi Province, sponsored by The Ohio Arts Council, 1990

AWARDS:
• 1999, Named a FELLOW of the AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL, New York, New York
• 1997, Inducted into the QUILTERS HALL OF FAME, Marion, Indiana
• 1996, NATIONAL LIVING TREASURE AWARD, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

GRANTS:
• 2002, INDIVIDUAL ARTIST'S FELLOWSHIP from The Ohio Arts Council
• 1990-91, MAJOR FELLOWSHIP of $50,000 from The Ohio Arts Council
• 1996, '88, '85, '82, '80, INDIVIDUAL ARTIST'S FELLOWSHIP from The Ohio Arts Council
• 1980, CRAFTSMEN'S FELLOWSHIP from The National Endowment for the Arts

VIDEO:
NANCY CROW/QUILTER, 1992, produced by Gemstone Productions
Available from: Visual Arts Network, Dayton, Ohio (513) 223-4615

FABRIC DESIGNER:
Under the name of NANCY CROW for KENT AVERY©, I designed two fabric collections each year for the New York company, WESTWOOD, Inc.

EXHIBITIONS:
2005
• THE TEXTURAL REVOLUTION: EARLY & RECENT WORKS BY DOROTHY GILL BARNES & NANCY CROW
Johnson Humrickhouse Museum, Roscoe Village, Coshocton, Ohio, October 9, 2004 - January 2, 2005

• NANCY CROW: CONSTRUCTIONS-COLOR & SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS
(Quilts from the CONSTRUCTIONS series)
Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand, November 26, 2004 - March 20, 2005

• HIGH FIBER: OBJECTS FROM THE RENWICK'S PERMANENT COLLECTION
Curator: Kenneth Trapp
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., March 11 - July 10, 2005

• ART QUILT ART
Invitational exhibition of quilts from around the world
The Quiltfestival Höri 2005, Höri am Bodensee, Lake Constance, Germany, May 4 - 29, 2005

• MAGNIFICENT EXTRAVAGANCE: ARTISTS & OPULENCE
Invitational exhibition, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, June 14 - November 26, 2005

• NANCY CROW: CONSTRUCTIONS-COLOR & SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS
(Quilts from the CONSTRUCTIONS series)
Hawke's Bay Exhibition Centre, Hastings, New Zealand, July 1 - September 4, 2005

• OF TIME AND PLACE: CONTEMPORARY LAYERED AND STITCHED TEXTILES
Invitational exhibition, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas, September 9 - Nov. 27, 2005


2004
• 280/PARAMETERS
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia
September 27, 2003 - January 4, 2004

• THE QUILTED SURFACE
Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, Indiana
January 16 - February 20, 2004

• FOURTH BIENNIAL FIBER SURVEY EXHIBITION
Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
March 5 - April 30, 2004

• TEXTILKUNST UND QUILTS
Invitational exhibition at the Hermann Hesse Museum & Höri Art Gallery in the Lake Konstanz region of Germany, March 28 - May 2, 2004

• ARTIST AS QUILTMAKER
Oberlin, Ohio, May 23 - August 1, 2004

• ART-QUILT-ART
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, September 18-December 12, 2004

• THE TEXTURAL REVOLUTION: EARLY & RECENT WORKS BY
DOROTHY GILL BARNES & NANCY CROW
Johnson Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, Ohio
Oct. 9, 2004 - Jan. 2, 2005

• CONSTRUCTIONS: COLOR & SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS
NANCY CROW RETROSPECTIVE
Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand, Nov. 2004 - Feb. 2005


2003
• INVITATIONAL EXHIBIT
The Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University
February 15-April 6, 2003

• FIBER ART TODAY: AN ENCORE PRESENTATION
Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, March 1-28, 2003

• FABRIC CONSTRUCTIONS
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, Missouri
May 30-June 30, 2003

• OHIO PIONEERS of the ART QUILT
Snowden Gallery, The Ohio State University, June 15-August 31, 2003

• 280/PARAMETERS
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia
September 27, 2003-January 4, 2004

• CHEONGJU INTERNATIONAL CRAFT BIENNALE
Cheongju, Korea, October 2-19, 2003


2002
• 30 DISTINGUISHED QUILTMAKERS OF THE WORLD
Tokyo Dome Stadium,Tokyo, Japan, January 24-30, 2002

• TEXTILES TWO THOUSAND TWO
Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan, February 22-March 23, 2002

• SOFA
Represented by Snyderman Gallery, New York City, May 28-June 3, 2002

• ELOQUENT THREADS: THE DAPHNE FARAGO FIBER ART COLLECTION
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 18, 2002-March 3, 2003

• MARY BARRINGER AND NANCY CROW
Snyderman Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, October 1-31, 2002


2001
• GROUND COVER: CONTEMPORARY QUILTS
McIlroy Gallery, Niceville, Florida, March 4-April 19, 2001

• CROW TIMBER FRAME BARN, Baltimore, Ohio, May 26-June 10, 2001

• QUILT NATIONAL, Athens, Ohio, May 26-September 3, 2001

• QUILT BERLIN SYMPOSIUM, Berlin, Germany, July 1-14, 2001

• Solo, ELZAY GALLERY, Ada, Ohio, September 4-28, 2001

• CELEBRATING CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS 2001
Providence Art Club, Providence, RI, September 30-October 27, 2001

• SOFA, Chicago, Illinois, October 5-7, 2001

• NEW FORMS IN FIBER: TRENDS AND TRADITIONS
Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, October 23-November 24, 2001


2000
• Surface-Strength-Structure
Snyderman/Works Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 1-30, 2000

• Solo, NANCY CROW: QUILTS IN DEPTH
Strasbourg, France, April 4-13, 2000

• SMALL WORKS
The Gallery at Studio B, Lancaster, Ohio, May 27-July 1, 2000

• ECLECTIC ENERGY
The Gallery at Studio B, Lancaster, Ohio, July 19-September 2, 2000

• VISUAL RHYTHMS
Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 18-Sept. 19, 2000

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