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Reach Pull Drag Reach Pull Drag
2012 work: Reach Pull Drag

Artist Statement

2012 TUMBLER SERIES
Elizabeth Whyte Schulze
September 8, 2012

In creating the tumbler series I was interested in working with smaller cylinder shapes as a way of making multiple baskets to provide me with opportunities for experimentation. The outside of each coiled pine needle and raffia basket is coated with handmade paper and gel medium. The paper retains the texture of the woven basket while providing a fine mesh surface for paint. Using layers of painted imagery often in combination with line and text, I am interested in showing the figure and her gestures in everyday experiences. Each figure in this series is individualized through feminine details of hairstyle, dress and movement.

IN THE CAVE is made up of five cylinders of different heights and widths. Each tumbler in this piece depicts a female figure or a group of women looking at paintings of horses, bison and bulls romping across the Paleolithic cave walls. Other Tumblers in this series such as in REACH, PULL and DRAG uses a simple outline and a small amount of color to emphasize the activity.
Elizabeth Whyte Schulze

ELIZABETH WHYTE SCHULZE
401 Huntington Road             Worthington, MA 01098                     413-238-5544
ewschulze3@yahoo.com         www.elizabethwhyteschulze.com

Solo Exhibitions:
Elizabeth Whyte Schulze--Mercy Gallery, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT, October – Dec., 2007
Journeys – Fiber Art Center, Amherst, MA 2006
Crossings – Geissler Gallery, Stoneleigh-Burnham School, Greenfield, MA 2004

Selected Group Exhibitions:
Textile as Painting/ Painting as Textile, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge,MA 2012
All Things Considered VI: National Basketry Organization conference show, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA July 30- December 4 2011
The Vessel Redefined: Contemporary Basketwork, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, August 4 - Sept.4 2011
FiberArt International , Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester ,NY April 30- July 3 2011
Fiber Art International 2010, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, April 16 - July 22, 2010
Masters of Contemporary Basketry, curator: Jane Sauer, Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA, Jan. 2009
Xtreme Baskets, Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe NM 2008
Fiber Art Explored ll, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2008
SOFA CHICAGO, Jane Sauer Gallery 2007
Mystery Contained: Contemporary Sculptural Basketry, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO 2007
Baskets as Architecture, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA 2007
Baskets: No Boundaries, Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2007
A Survey of Baskets Today, Peter’s Valley Craft Center, Layton, NJ 2007
Beyond the Basket, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2007
Baskets: Beyond Structure, Jane Sauer Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2006
Baskets 2006, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006
Natural Origins contemporary Baskets, Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA 2006
Basket (r) Evolution, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA 2006
Forms of Fiber, Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio 2005

Curator Exhibition:
WOVEN, Mercy Gallery, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, Ct. 2012

Museum and Corporate Collections:
Office of the Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, City of Los Angles 2006
Racine Art Museum (RAM), Racine, WI 1999, 2008
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA 1997, 1998, 2000

Awards:
Recipient of Massachusetts Cultural Council 2009 Fellowship for Crafts

Lectures/ Visiting Artist:
Juror Bead International & Beyond Basketry – 2008 exhibition Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, Ohio
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, lecture and visiting artist 2005
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, lecture and visiting artist, 2003

Publications and Reviews:
Review of solo show: Journeys at Fiber Art Center, Fiberarts Magazine, January 2007
Mystery Contained: Contemporary Sculptural Basketry, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO 2007 (catalog)
500 Baskets, Lark Press 2006
Baskets a Book for Makers and Collectors, Billy Ruth Sudduth 1999

Education:
Tufts University, Medford, MA – MA 1972
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH – BA 1970

Travel:
Destinations 1968- 2010: European study tour; Borneo/Southeast Asia; Europe; Japan; West Africa; Mexico; Nepal/India; France; Canada; France/England; Florence, Italy; Paris, France; Scotland; Spain; Hawaii; Venice, Italy; Australia; Japan; Rome, Italy.

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