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ABOUT
Sheri Schumacher is a textile-based artist and designer. Her studio practice explores narratives about cultural landscapes and records a sense of place through observation and material investigation. Discovery through the act of making is integral to her work, finding beauty in imperfection from repurposed garments and linens with a history of use. She works with a range of processes, including hand stitching, mending and fabric manipulation, creating textile assemblages from an intimate scale to larger site specific works.
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Experience | education
Associate Professor Emerita, Interior Architecture, Auburn University School of Architecture, Auburn, AL
MFA Design, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
EXHIBITIONS
Signature Contemporary Craft Gallery, invitational exhibition ‘Wall to Wall’ and representation — Atlanta, GA
Hoover Public Library Galleries, solo exhibition ‘Cultural Landscapes’ — Birmingham, AL
International Quilt Festival, invitational exhibition ‘Structure & Solidity’ — Houston, TX
Shelby County Arts Center, invitational exhibition ‘Stories: Repeat after me’ — Columbiana, AL
QuiltCon International Modern Quilt, juried exhibition 'Resilience’ — Atlanta, GA
Harvest Roots Ferments, solo exhibition ‘Cloth Fieldwork’ — Birmingham, AL
Gadsden Museum of Art, solo exhibition ‘Spatial Dualities in Cloth’ — Gadsden, AL
Usak Museum of Archeology, invitational exhibition ‘Blended’ — Usak, Turkey
Kyoto Shibori Museum, invitational exhibition ‘Blended’ — Kyoto, Japan
Carnegie Visual Arts Center, duo exhibition ‘Material Surroundings’ — Decatur, AL
Kyoto International Community House, invitational exhibition ‘Ongoing Conversation: Recall, Recollect, and Reconstruct’ — Kyoto, Japan
Wiregrass Museum of Art, solo exhibition ‘Textile | Assemblage | Place’ — Dothan, AL
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, juried exhibition ‘Alabama Cityscape’, ‘Blue Fields’, ‘Margins’ — Montgomery, AL
QuiltCon International Modern Quilt, juried exhibition, 'Alabama Cityscape' and ‘Homage to Malevich’ — Pasadena, CA
New Legacies, juried exhibition ‘Cultivated Ground’ — Ft Collins, CO
collections | Commissions
GWCC/Signia Hilton, Atlanta, GA — ‘Coastal Plain Threshold I and II’ wall textiles
Heitz Winery, St. Helena, CA — ‘Nuance’ wall textile
Harpeth Barn residence, Nashville, TN — ‘Harpeth’ wall textile and ‘Headwaters’ quilt
Montana residence — ’Drawing the Horizon’ wall textile
Alabama Gulf State Park cottages — ‘Coastal Plain Series’ 11 wall quilts
Awards
Chuck Whitehead Award and Foy Gilmore Goodwyn Memorial Fund Award — textile works
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL
Alabama State Council On The Arts — Community Arts Grant, two Design Fellowships
Articles
https://createwhimsy.com/projects/spotlight-sheri-schumacher-textile-artist/
https://newsouthfinds.com/sheri-schumacher/
https://wiregrassmuseum.org/get-to-know-artist-sheri-schumacher