Exhibitions

2022 Boston Sculptors Gallery, Group Show
2021 CraftBoston, “CraftBoston: Fiber Stories”
2021 Monmouth University Center for the Arts, West Long Branch NJ: “The Fine Art of Denim”
2020 Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA:”Becoming: Inaugural Associate Members’ Group Exhibition”
2020 Mosesian Center for the Arts,Watertown, MA: Threaded: Contemporary Fiber in New England,
2019 Art at the Gleason, Carlisle, MA: Solo Show
2019 Cambridge Art Association, University Place, Cambridge MA: “Keeping Count”
2018 Chocolate Church Arts Center, Bath ME: “A Woman’s Place”
2017 Belmont Gallery of Art, Belmont MA: “A Woman’s Place”
2017 Gallery 263, Cambridge MA: “Handled”
2017 Cambridge Center for the Arts, Cambridge MA: “National Prize Show 2017”
2017 Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC: Artist Residency
2017 Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead, MA: “Dimensions Invitational”
2016 Bell Tower Gallery at Old Slater Mill Museum, Pawtucket RI: “Fiber in the Present Tense”
2016 Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW Australia: Invitational show “Holding”.
2016 ArtPrize 8: Grand Rapids, MI
2016 Watertown Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA: “Fiber in the Present Tense”
2016 The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, Gloucester, MA: “Time Matters: 3 Explorations”
2015 Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA: “Blue”
2015 Chandler Gallery, Maud Morgan Arts, Cambridge, MA: “Piecework” Solo Show
2015 Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI: “Extreme Fibers: Textile Icons and the New Edge”
2015 Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI: “Extreme Fibers: Textile Icons and the New Edge”
2015 Chandler Gallery, Maud Morgan Arts, Cambridge, MA: “Small Works Salon 2015: Word + Image” 1st Prize, Juror: Magda Campos-Pons
2015 Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA: “Time & Materials”, Solo Show
2014 Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead, MA: “Take Two”, Joint Show
2013 Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead, MA: “The Fine Art of Crafts”
2013 Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead, MA: New Member Show
2012 Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA: PEM After Hours
2012 Marblehead Festival of Arts: Best of Show, Sculpture
2012 George Wingate Gallery, Wenham, MA: Group Show
2011 Salem Arts Festival, Salem, MA: Solo Show
2011 Darling Street Gallery, Marblehead, MA: Group Pop Up Show
2009 International Surface Design Association Conference, Kansas City, MO: “Off the Grid”
2009 Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead, MA: “The Green Show”
2005 ArtsFest Beverly, Beverly, MA: Juried show
2003 ArtsFest Beverly, Beverly, MA: Juried show
2001 The Schoolhouse, Croton Falls NY: “Living with Arts and Craft”
2000 Virginia Carten Gallery, Abbot Public Library, Marblehead, MA: Joint show

Press

2018 Boston Voyager,Check out Michele Fandel Bonner
2018 Fiber Art Network, Diane Franklin, A Women’s Place
2018 Boston Globe, Zipporah Osei: A Women’s Place Reclaimed Through Art
2017 Elsewhere, Make Do and Mend
2017 Uppercase Magazine, Time, Issue 35
2017 Surface Design Association, SDA Inaugural International Exhibition in Print
2016 Art New England, Olivia Keirs: Time Matters, A conversation with artists
2016 Gloucester Wicked Local, Keith Powers: Art That Explores Time
2016 Arsenal Center: Fiber in The Present Tense
2015 Scout Cambridge: Piecework
2015 Shana Dumont-Garr: Art and Aura: Just in Time for Black Friday
2015 Thinking About Art Out Loud: From Skin to Hide: Michele Fandel Bonner
2015 Hand/Eye: Collect and Create
2014 A Yarn Tale: Artist Spotlight
2014 Marblehead Reporter: Marblehead artists recycle inspiration
2014 Cape Cod Times: A new vision for the Cape’s Homeless
2014 Behind Toil and Trouble: Artist Crush

Teaching/Workshops

2019 Fiber Arts Australia: Ballarat and Woodlawn NSW: Material Explorations: Creating from found objects and recycled fibers
2018 The Cabins: Norfolk, CT: Mending as Meditation
2017 Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA: Yarn
2015 RawArts, Lynn, MA: Recycled Materials
2014 Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA: Manipulating Recycled Fibers
2014-Present Lifebridge Thrift Shop, Lifebridge Homeless Shelter; Resident Artist
2014 East Carolina University, Greenville NC: Multiples and Recycled Fibers

Education/ Professional Development

2018 The Cabins: Norfolk, CT
2017 Elsewhere Museum: Residency March-April, Greensboro, NC
2016 Haystack Mountain School of Craft: Amelia Poole, Botanical Contact Printing.
2013 Haystack Mountain School of Craft: Sonya Clark, Multiple Meanings, Meanings in Multiples.
2013 Montserrat College of Art: Artist Professional Toolbox
2012 MetalWerx: Stone Drilling:
2012 Montserrat College of Art: Welding
2011 Montserrat College of Art: Nathalie Miebach, Sculptural Weaving
2010 Fuller Craft Museum: Adrienne Sloane, Sculptural Knitting
1984 Massachusetts College of Art: Graphic Design
1981 University of Massachusetts: BA Art Therapy, Bachelors Degree of Independent Curriculum, Amherst