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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. Informed by relationships between interior and exterior conditions, her textiles move beyond being just a cloth surface and become a space with defining enclosure systems such as boundaries, edge and territory.
Discovery through the act of making is integral to her work, finding beauty in imperfection from discarded garments and linens with a history of use. The repurposed cloth provides a site for conversation between surface and support, intention and unpredictability and resistance and fragility. Dialogue with the cloth’s tendencies is explored through hand sewing, piecing and mending, a choreography between maker and material.
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Experience | education
Associate Professor Emerita, Interior Architecture, Auburn University School of Architecture, Auburn, AL
MFA 3D Design, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
EXHIBITIONS
Santa Cruz Art League, ‘Back and Forth: The Unintended Beauty of Textiles’ group exhibit — Santa Cruz, CA
Bo Bartlett Center artist spotlight, ‘Interwoven’ textile — Columbus, GA
Wiregrass Museum of Art, ‘Humble: Cloth Stories’ group exhibit — Dothan, AL
Onna House, invitational textile exhibit — East Hampton, NY
Signature Contemporary Craft Gallery, ‘Wall to Wall’ group exhibit and representation — Atlanta, GA
Hoover Public Library Galleries, ‘Cultural Landscapes’ solo exhibit — Birmingham, AL
International Quilt Festival, ‘Structure & Solidity’ group exhibit — Houston, TX
Shelby County Arts Center, ‘Stories: Repeat after me’ group exhibit — Columbiana, AL
QuiltCon International Modern Quilt, 'Resilience’ juried group exhibit — Atlanta, GA
Harvest Roots Ferments, ‘Cloth Fieldwork’ solo exhibit — Birmingham, AL
Gadsden Museum of Art, ‘Spatial Dualities in Cloth’ solo exhibit — Gadsden, AL
Usak Museum of Archeology, ‘Blended’ group exhibit — Usak, Turkey
Kyoto Shibori Museum, ‘Blended’ group exhibit — Kyoto, Japan
Carnegie Visual Arts Center, ‘Material Surroundings’ duo exhibit — Decatur, AL
Kyoto International Community House, ‘Ongoing Conversation: Recall, Recollect, and Reconstruct’ group exhibit — Kyoto, Japan
Wiregrass Museum of Art, ‘Textile | Assemblage | Place’ solo exhibit — Dothan, AL
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, ‘Alabama Cityscape’, ‘Blue Fields’, ‘Margins’ juried exhibit— Montgomery, AL
QuiltCon International Modern Quilt, 'Alabama Cityscape' and ‘Homage to Malevich’ juried exhibit — Pasadena, CA
New Legacies, ‘Cultivated Ground’ juried exhibit — 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