Featured/Solo Exhibitions
2026 Scheduled Solo Show,, Bower Center for the Arts, Bedford, VA
2023 When We Are They Are Us,, Freight Gallery, Washington, DC
2023 In the Round: Dimensional Fiber Works, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2022 Echo of Memory, Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD
2021 Of Memory, Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC
2020 Entanglements, Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, MD
2019 (bound)aries Artists & Makers Studio, Rockville, MD
2019 Indeterminate Identities Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD
Select Group Exhibitions
2024 Metamorphosis: Recycled, Repurposed, Reimagined, Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center, Solomons, MD
2024 Black, White, or Gray, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2023 Textile Expressions: A Journey through American Art, Flavio Dolce Projects Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2023 Natural Impressions, Museu Têxtil, São Paulo, Brazil
2023 3rd Biennial National Juried Fiber Arts Exhibition, Bower Center for the Arts, Bedford, VA - Jurors’ Award-Best in Show
2022 What a Relief, Phillips Collection @THEARC, Washington, DC
2021 Upside Downside, Inside Out, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (catalogue) - Jurors’ Award-2nd Place
2021 SHE|DC, Sunshine Gallery, Washington, DC
2020 Contrasting Shapes, Museu Têxtil, São Paulo, Brazil (catalogue)
2020 Us: What Divides Us and What Unites Us, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
2020 Sculpture NOW, WSG/MPA, Mclean, VA
2020 By the People X Monogram Collective, Halcyon, Washington, DC
2020 Threaded II, Envision Arts, Dallas, TX
2020 National Juried Exhibition, Delaplaine Art Center, Frederick, MD
2020 Intertwined, Dayton Society of Artists, Dayton, OH
2020 3rd Biennial Fiber National Juried Exhibition, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA
2020 Handcrafted, Blackrock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD - Juror’s Award
2020 5(five), Artists & Makers Studio, Rockville, MD
2019 Art Night 2019, Hickok Cole Architects, Washington, DC
2019 By the People X Monogram Collective, Halcyon, Washington, DC
2018 Micromonuments II: Underground, IA & A at Hillyer, Washington, DC
2018 The 2018 Invitational / The Cabinet of Curiosities, Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA
2018 Nefelibata, Union Street Gallery, Kokomo, IN
2018 WOMXN X Art, The Lemon Collective, Washington, DC
2018 Material, d'Art Center, Norfolk, VA
2018 At 3(three), Artists & Makers Studio, Rockville, MD
2018 Abstracts, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2017 Off the Wall, Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD
2017 Process and Inspiration, 2017 Invitational, Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD
Commissions
2020 Another F Word, Hotel Zena, Washington, DC (catalogue)
2016 For the Music, 202 Arts and Music Festival, DC Arts Commission on Arts and Humanities, Canal Park, Washington, DC
Select Bibliography
2023 Mark Jenkins, “Fiber-based Materials Yield Remarkable Art,” The Washington Post, Washington, DC, February 3.
2021 Mark Jenkins, “Teaming Up to Create New Artistic Identity,” The Washington Post, Washington, DC, November 21, E19.
2021 Inside Outside, Upside Down, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 109-110.
2021 Eric Celarier, “Inside Outside, Upside Down Review,” The Washington Sculptor, Washington, DC, No. 3 Fall, 11.
2021 “11 Things to Do Around DC This Week,” DCist, Washington, DC, August 30.
2021 Louis Jacobson, “City Lights: Inside Outside, Upside Down: 64 Artists Opine on 2020,” Washington City Paper, August 9.
2021 “Inside Outside, Upside Down,” The Phillips Collection Member Magazine, Washington, DC, Summer 2021, 11.
2020 Rodrigo Franzao, Contrastes de Forma, Museu Têxtil, Brazil, 16, 23, 31, 44-45, 86.
2020 Her: The Zena Collection, Hotel Zena, Washington, DC, 119-120.
Presentations
2022 Echo of Memory: An Artist’s Talk, Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD
2022 Making and Meaning in Felt, Spindles and Flyers Guild, San Francisco, CA (scheduled)
2021 Kristina Penhoet in Conversation with Abigail McEwen, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
2021 Impressions and Expressions, Carmel Fiber Guild, Monterey, CA
Education
Independent study
Andrea Graham, Pam de Groot, Christine White, Stephanie Metz, Kristy Kun, Charlotte Sehmisch, Kristina Gorranson, and Marjolein Dallinga
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Fellowship/Residencies
Sparkplug Collective, DC Arts Center, Washington, DC
US-Japan Foundation, Japan
Graham Foundation, Washington, DC
Professional Affiliations
Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC
DC Arts Center, Washington, DC
Women’s Caucus for Art, Washington, DC
Washington Sculptors Group, Washington, DC
Potomac Fiber Guild, Potomac, MD