CHRISTINE SAUER Mixed media artist
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
JURIED
2010 2010 National Small Art Quilt Works Exhibition, The Main Street Gallery,
Groton, NY
45th Annual Juried Artists Exhibition, St. Tammany Art Association,
Covington, LA
“Metaphoric Fibers: Untamed Knitting and Crochet”, Textile Center,
Minneapolis, MN
2008 “Stitch”, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, reviewed in artforum.com
2007 “Sum of the Parts”, Juried Traveling Exhibition, 2007-2010, sponsored by
International Surface Design Association
Venues include;
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO 2007
Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 2008
J. Wayne Stark Gallery, Texas A&M University, College Station 2008
The Goldstein Museum of Design, Univ. of Minnesota, 2009
Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum, Logan KS 2010
2004 “Best of Louisiana Artists’ Annual”, St. Tammany Art Association, Covington,
LA
SOLO
1993 University of New Orleans, LA
1992 Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1989 Pensacola Junior College, Pensacola, FLA
1988 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
GROUP
2010 “Growing Pains”, LeMieux Gallery, New Orleans, LA
“Femme Fest”, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Gallery,
New Orleans, LA
PUBLICATIONS
2008 artforum.com, editors picks, New Orleans, Sept/Oct, “Stitch”
2007 Surface Design Journal, “Exposure” section, Fall 2007
GRANTS
1995 Regional Artists Project Grant, supported by Inter-Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts; the Rockefeller Foundation and the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Arts, “Trunks” performance piece at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, in collaboration with choreographer Yvonne Olivier
AWARDS
1991 Best of Show “Louisiana Artist’s Annual”, Covington, LA., juror Annette Carlozzi, cash award
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT –Workshops
2009 “Artist as Entrepreneur”, Arts Council of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
2005 Tracy Krumm, “Sculptural Crochet”, Surface Design Association Conference
2004 Susan Brandeis, “Fabric Manipulation”, Split Rock Arts Program, MN
2000 National Art Education Conference, NYC
1999 Advanced Placement in Studio Art workshop, Atlanta, GA
1998 “Weaving”, Penland, NC
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2010- St. Martin’s Episcopal School, La., Head of Visual Arts, middle and upper
1996 school arts instructor
EDUCATION
1984 Master of Fine Arts, Major in Painting, Minor in Sculpture, University of New Orleans, Louisiana
1980 Bachelor of Arts, Potsdam College of Arts and Science, Potsdam, New York(SUNY) Concentration in Sculpture
MEMBERSHIPS
International Surface Design Association
Arts Council of New Orleans
New Orleans Museum of Art
Studio Art Quilt Associates
SELECTED COLLECTIONS Public
Louisiana College, Pineville, LA
Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
Pensacola Junior College, Pensacola, FLA
City of New Orleans, Percent for Art
SUNY, Potsdam College of Arts and Sciences, Potsdam, New York