Curriculum Vitae 

Exhibitions

2023 Quilts from the Information Age, Gold/Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2022 Visitation: Abolitionist Creations, All Street NYC, New York, NY (curated by Emma Bergman)
2022 Stitch x Stitch, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago, IL (in conjunction with Stitch by Stitch: Conversations on Quilting, "Healing" and Abolition Conference)
2022 Solo Exhibition, Lula Cafe, Chicago, IL
2021 The Crosshatch Project, a decentralized art exchange with Kendall Hill, Chicago, IL
2019 Smalls to the Walls, Group Exhibition, Galerie F, Chicago, IL
2018 Power Couples, Group Exhibition, Galerie F, Chicago, IL (with Tavi Veraldi)

Collaborative/Community Projects

2024 How To Glean a Quilt, Instructor, MIAD Continuing Education, Milwaukee, WI
2023 The People’s Quilting Bee: Quilts, Queerness, and Community, Lecturer, TATTER, NYC
2023 Rags to Books Class, Instructor, The Bindery, Milwaukee, WI2023 Queer Quilting Workshop, Guest Speaker, MIAD, Milwaukee, WI
2022 Geometry Quilt Project, Guest Speaker, Highland Community School, Milwaukee, WI
2021 Queer Quilters Zine, (vol 1-4), with Zak Foster
2021 Simon’s Quilt, collaborative quilt and community fundraiser with Kelsey Herron
2021 Quilt Study No. 3, Raffle for Souls Grown Deep
2021 Quilted Butterfly Hat, Raffle with 4LW Coffee for Title Track Michigan
2020 Abolition Quilting Bee, Organizer/Facilitator, large-scale collaborative quilting project and fundraiser
2020 Seed Quilt, Raffle for Chicago Community Bond Fund

Publications (Print and Audio)

“Why We Quilt”, Love Patchwork & Quilting, Issue #138, 2024 (UK)
“Diary of Place”, Floral Observer, Winter Issue, 2024 (Detroit, MI)
“Meet the Quilter: Grace Rother”, Love Patchwork & Quilting, Issue #123, 2023, UK
Jaxson Leilah Stone, “Contemporary Quilters Are Piecing Together a New Era of the American Craft”, Metropolis Magazine, August 10, 2022
Jess Bailey, Many Hands Make a Quilt: Short Histories of Radical Quilting, Common Threads Press, UK, 2021, p. 42-44
Close Knit Podcast, Episode 60, with Ani Lee, December 18, 2020

Awards, Residencies

2018 Artist in Residence, Tomorrow River Homestead, Nelsonville, WI
2015 Hopwood Underclassman Award, Non-Fiction, University of Michigan