Education
2021 MA, Critical Craft Studies, Warren Wilson College, Asheville NC
2004 MFA, Creative Writing and Literary Arts, University of Alaska Anchorage
1994 BA, Art, University of Nevada, Reno | summa cum laude
1994 BS, Textiles and Apparel Merchandising, University of Nevada, Reno | summa cum laude
1994 Business Administration minor, University of Nevada, Reno
2004 MFA, Creative Writing and Literary Arts, University of Alaska Anchorage
1994 BA, Art, University of Nevada, Reno | summa cum laude
1994 BS, Textiles and Apparel Merchandising, University of Nevada, Reno | summa cum laude
1994 Business Administration minor, University of Nevada, Reno
selected Awards & Collections
2023
Harper Arts Touring Grant, Alaska State Council on the Arts (awarded for the group exhibition MOTHER)
Center For Craft 2023 Teaching Artist Cohort Grant, Asheville NC
2021
Acquisition | International Quilt Museum | Girl Story 3 (2015), Reliquary 2: Keep (2015), The Acquisition of Language (2014)
2020-21
Northern Research Lab Fellow, Anchorage Museum, AK
2020
Acquisition | Anchorage Museum, AK | Mother Thought of Everything (2020)
Acquisition | Alaska State Museum, Juneau AK | Materfamilias (2018)
2019
Acquisition | Anchorage Museum, AK | Fatigue Threshold (2017)
2018
Acquisition | Alaska Humanities Forum | Fossil (2018)
Acquisition | Ahmanson Collection, Irvine CA | Snowblind (2018), Reliquary #3: Catch (2015)
2017
Rasmuson Foundation Project Grant, AK
Acquisition | Alaska Contemporary Art Bank | Reliquary #11: Halo (2015)
2016
Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant
2014
Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship, AK
Acquisition | Anchorage Museum, AK | Spontaneous Combustion (2013)
Harper Arts Touring Grant, Alaska State Council on the Arts (awarded for the group exhibition MOTHER)
Center For Craft 2023 Teaching Artist Cohort Grant, Asheville NC
2021
Acquisition | International Quilt Museum | Girl Story 3 (2015), Reliquary 2: Keep (2015), The Acquisition of Language (2014)
2020-21
Northern Research Lab Fellow, Anchorage Museum, AK
2020
Acquisition | Anchorage Museum, AK | Mother Thought of Everything (2020)
Acquisition | Alaska State Museum, Juneau AK | Materfamilias (2018)
2019
Acquisition | Anchorage Museum, AK | Fatigue Threshold (2017)
2018
Acquisition | Alaska Humanities Forum | Fossil (2018)
Acquisition | Ahmanson Collection, Irvine CA | Snowblind (2018), Reliquary #3: Catch (2015)
2017
Rasmuson Foundation Project Grant, AK
Acquisition | Alaska Contemporary Art Bank | Reliquary #11: Halo (2015)
2016
Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant
2014
Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship, AK
Acquisition | Anchorage Museum, AK | Spontaneous Combustion (2013)
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Sample Home, International Quilt Museum, Lincoln NE
2019 Inheritance: makers. memory. myth. Alaska State Museum, Juneau AK
2018 Inheritance: makers. memory. myth. Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK
2016 Reliquary, ConocoPhillips Gallery, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage AK
2015 Reliquary, Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer AK
2019 Inheritance: makers. memory. myth. Alaska State Museum, Juneau AK
2018 Inheritance: makers. memory. myth. Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK
2016 Reliquary, ConocoPhillips Gallery, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage AK
2015 Reliquary, Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer AK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
MOTHER, Bear Gallery, Fairbanks AK
Mining Mending, Tracy Krumm, curator. Textile Arts Center, Minneapolis MN
Among the Garbage and the Flowers, Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Alamonte ON Canada
2022
MOTHER, Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer AK
Alaska Biennial, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK
Small Acts: the Craft of Subversion, Paul Sacaridiz, juror. City College Art Gallery, San Diego CA
2021
Circle of Protection: Body, Land, and Spirit, Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer AK
Remnants, Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts, Cedarburg WI
2020
Extra Tough: Women of the North, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK
Fragile Domestic, Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer AK
Alaska Biennial, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK
Castaways, Vivienne Challandes, curator. Bateman Foundation Gallery of Nature, Victoria BC Canada
2019
In Quest of Beauty: Assemblage in the Ahmanson Collection, John Silvis, curator. Ahmanson Gallery, Irvine CA
Quilt National 2017, Nancy Crow, Petra Fallaux & Art Martin, jurors. European Patchwork Meeting, Sainte-Maire-Aux-Mines, France
2018
All Alaska Biennial, Candice Hopkins, juror. Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK
Quilt + Resist: Art, Politics, Storytelling, Marcia Grubb & Adelia Moore jurors. Woman Made Gallery, Chicago IL
Material, Liana Graham, juror. D'Art Center, Norfolk VA
The Art of Manipulation, David Heustess, curator. Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN
2017
Gilding the Lily: 200 Years of Embroidery in Quilts, Pamela Weeks, curator. New England Quilt Museum, Lowell MA
In Death, Alessandra Piano, curator. Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts, Cedarburg WI
Quilt National, Nancy Crow, Petra Fallaux & Art Martin, jurors. The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens OH & Foundry Art Center, St. Louis MO
Needles & Thread, Mandy Greer, curator. Gallery One Visual Arts Center, Ellensburg WA
Texas National, Benito Huerta, juror. Stephen F. Austin State University, The Cole Art Center's Ledbetter Gallery, Nacogdoches TX
Women's Works, Brenda Oelbaum, curator. Old Court House Arts Center, Woodstock IL
The Thread Unraveled, Samina Islam, curator. VM Art Gallery, Karachi Pakistan
Histories & Memories, Joshua Hagler, juror. Indiana State University East, Richmond IN
2016
Chasing Ghosts, Jennifer Gillia Cutshall, curator. Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland OR
Fearless, Beate Minkovski, curator. Old Court House Arts Center, Woodstock IL | First Place Award
Fragments of Time, KN Goodrich, curator. Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage AK
The Living Mark, Jennifer Gillia Cutshall, curator. Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland OR
New Legacies: Contemporary Art Quilts Exhibition, Jo Fitsell, Louisa Smith, Vicki Carlson & Ellen Martin, jurors. The Lincoln Center, Fort Collins CO | Award for Creative Innovation
Transgressing Traditions: Contemporary Textiles by the Surface Design Association, Dorie Millerson, Karen Hampton & Donna Lamb, jurors. Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn NY
Focus: Fiber, Jane Sauer, curator. Kent State University Museum, Kent OH | Textile Art Alliance Award
Every Fiber of My Being, Diana Weymar, curator. Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, Princeton NJ
All Alaska Biennial, Jen Budney, juror. Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK | Juror's Merit Award
Art Cloth North II, blue.hollomon gallery, Anchorage AK
2015
Living Alaska: A Decade of Collecting Contemporary Art for Alaska Museums, Sven Haakanson Jr., curator. Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Mary Anne Jordan, Linda Colsh & Cynthia Corbin, jurors. Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn NY
New Directions: National Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition, Janet Bishop, juror. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie NY
2014
All-Alaska Juried XXXV, Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson, juror. Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK | Juror's Merit Award
Art Cloth North, blue.hollomon gallery, Anchorage AK
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Valerie Goodwin & Kathleen Loomis, jurors. Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn NY
2013
Earth, Fire & Fibre XXIX, Andrew Glasgow, juror. Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK | Juror's Choice Award
MOTHER, Bear Gallery, Fairbanks AK
Mining Mending, Tracy Krumm, curator. Textile Arts Center, Minneapolis MN
Among the Garbage and the Flowers, Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Alamonte ON Canada
2022
MOTHER, Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer AK
Alaska Biennial, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK
Small Acts: the Craft of Subversion, Paul Sacaridiz, juror. City College Art Gallery, San Diego CA
2021
Circle of Protection: Body, Land, and Spirit, Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer AK
Remnants, Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts, Cedarburg WI
2020
Extra Tough: Women of the North, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK
Fragile Domestic, Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer AK
Alaska Biennial, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK
Castaways, Vivienne Challandes, curator. Bateman Foundation Gallery of Nature, Victoria BC Canada
2019
In Quest of Beauty: Assemblage in the Ahmanson Collection, John Silvis, curator. Ahmanson Gallery, Irvine CA
Quilt National 2017, Nancy Crow, Petra Fallaux & Art Martin, jurors. European Patchwork Meeting, Sainte-Maire-Aux-Mines, France
2018
All Alaska Biennial, Candice Hopkins, juror. Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK
Quilt + Resist: Art, Politics, Storytelling, Marcia Grubb & Adelia Moore jurors. Woman Made Gallery, Chicago IL
Material, Liana Graham, juror. D'Art Center, Norfolk VA
The Art of Manipulation, David Heustess, curator. Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN
2017
Gilding the Lily: 200 Years of Embroidery in Quilts, Pamela Weeks, curator. New England Quilt Museum, Lowell MA
In Death, Alessandra Piano, curator. Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts, Cedarburg WI
Quilt National, Nancy Crow, Petra Fallaux & Art Martin, jurors. The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens OH & Foundry Art Center, St. Louis MO
Needles & Thread, Mandy Greer, curator. Gallery One Visual Arts Center, Ellensburg WA
Texas National, Benito Huerta, juror. Stephen F. Austin State University, The Cole Art Center's Ledbetter Gallery, Nacogdoches TX
Women's Works, Brenda Oelbaum, curator. Old Court House Arts Center, Woodstock IL
The Thread Unraveled, Samina Islam, curator. VM Art Gallery, Karachi Pakistan
Histories & Memories, Joshua Hagler, juror. Indiana State University East, Richmond IN
2016
Chasing Ghosts, Jennifer Gillia Cutshall, curator. Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland OR
Fearless, Beate Minkovski, curator. Old Court House Arts Center, Woodstock IL | First Place Award
Fragments of Time, KN Goodrich, curator. Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage AK
The Living Mark, Jennifer Gillia Cutshall, curator. Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland OR
New Legacies: Contemporary Art Quilts Exhibition, Jo Fitsell, Louisa Smith, Vicki Carlson & Ellen Martin, jurors. The Lincoln Center, Fort Collins CO | Award for Creative Innovation
Transgressing Traditions: Contemporary Textiles by the Surface Design Association, Dorie Millerson, Karen Hampton & Donna Lamb, jurors. Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn NY
Focus: Fiber, Jane Sauer, curator. Kent State University Museum, Kent OH | Textile Art Alliance Award
Every Fiber of My Being, Diana Weymar, curator. Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, Princeton NJ
All Alaska Biennial, Jen Budney, juror. Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK | Juror's Merit Award
Art Cloth North II, blue.hollomon gallery, Anchorage AK
2015
Living Alaska: A Decade of Collecting Contemporary Art for Alaska Museums, Sven Haakanson Jr., curator. Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Mary Anne Jordan, Linda Colsh & Cynthia Corbin, jurors. Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn NY
New Directions: National Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition, Janet Bishop, juror. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie NY
2014
All-Alaska Juried XXXV, Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson, juror. Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK | Juror's Merit Award
Art Cloth North, blue.hollomon gallery, Anchorage AK
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Valerie Goodwin & Kathleen Loomis, jurors. Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn NY
2013
Earth, Fire & Fibre XXIX, Andrew Glasgow, juror. Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK | Juror's Choice Award
Public Art Commissions
2016 Chugiak-Eagle River Library, Eagle River AK
2016 Wasilla Public Library, Wasilla AK
2006 Muldoon Branch Library, Anchorage AK
2003 Samson-Dimond Branch Library, Anchorage AK
2016 Wasilla Public Library, Wasilla AK
2006 Muldoon Branch Library, Anchorage AK
2003 Samson-Dimond Branch Library, Anchorage AK
selected Writing
2023
Essay | "But First Learn This (A List)," The MACR Papers
2021
Guest Editor | Chatter Marks: The State of Repair, journal of the Anchorage Museum, issue 3, March 2021.
Essay | "Repair as Accompaniment," Chatter Marks: The State of Repair, journal of the Anchorage Museum, Issue 3, March 2021 (15-20).
Essay | "The Sheets: A Pandemic Landscape," To: Craft, MA Critical Craft Studies Publication, Warren Wilson College, Asheville NC.
Essay | "Break, Re-Break, Re-repair," To: Craft, MA Critical Craft Studies Publication, Warren Wilson College, Asheville NC.
2019
Essay | "The Final Inheritor," Hand/Eye Magazine, January 9, 2019.
2018
Essay | "The Landscape of Cloth," NYTM | New York Textile Month No. 3, Fall 2018.
2015
Essay | "Swallowing the Needle," CIRQUE Literary Journal, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2015.
Essay | "But First Learn This (A List)," The MACR Papers
2021
Guest Editor | Chatter Marks: The State of Repair, journal of the Anchorage Museum, issue 3, March 2021.
Essay | "Repair as Accompaniment," Chatter Marks: The State of Repair, journal of the Anchorage Museum, Issue 3, March 2021 (15-20).
Essay | "The Sheets: A Pandemic Landscape," To: Craft, MA Critical Craft Studies Publication, Warren Wilson College, Asheville NC.
Essay | "Break, Re-Break, Re-repair," To: Craft, MA Critical Craft Studies Publication, Warren Wilson College, Asheville NC.
2019
Essay | "The Final Inheritor," Hand/Eye Magazine, January 9, 2019.
2018
Essay | "The Landscape of Cloth," NYTM | New York Textile Month No. 3, Fall 2018.
2015
Essay | "Swallowing the Needle," CIRQUE Literary Journal, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2015.
Selected Publication & Interviews
2023
"Mein Lieblingsquilt," Quilt & Textilkunst Patchwork Professional, Germany, May 2023, (38-39).
2022
"Will You Repair Me? From Wedding Dress Designer to Clothing Repairer," Podcast interview with Liudmila Aliabieva, Repair and Society Podcast, Episode 1, August 31, 2023.
"Crafting a Canon: Change Through Scholarship," by D Wood, Garland Magazine, 1 March 2022.
The Art of Mothering: Our Lives in Colour & Shadow, by Karen D. Miller (Illinois: Ampry Publishing, 2022) 44-45, 56-57, 80-82.
2021
Resilient Stitch: Well-being and Connection in Textile Art, by Claire Wellesley-Smith (London: Batsford Books, 2021) 28-29.
2020
"Porträt Amy Meissner," Quilt & Textilkunst Patchwork Professional, Germany, February 2020, (6-13).
2019
In Quest of Beauty: Assemblage in the Ahmanson Collection. John Silvis, curator. Pinatubo Press, 2019.
Just Wanna Quilt Podcast, Interview with Elizabeth Townsend Gard, posted January 8, 2019.
2018
"Pulling at Perfection: Mix of Meaning and Media in Fiber Art," by Amy O'Neill-Houck | Rasmuson Foundation + 49 Writers IAA Profiles.
"A New Mythology: Interview with Textile Artist Amy Meissner," Create! Magazine, Dec. 28, 2018.
"Amy Meissner: Beautiful Contemporary Art Carries Terrible Undertones," by Cindy Grisdella, SAQA Journal, Vol. 28, No. 4 (8-12).
Create! Magazine, Artist Profile, Art Miami/Anniversary Issue, curated by Kaly Scheller-Barrett, Issue 12, Winter 2018/19 (168-167).
Fiber Art Now: Excellence in Fibers IV, Carol Sauvion, Perry Price, Beth McLaughlin, jurors. Winter 2018/19.
"Sammlung: Ein Bild, Ein Satz, Ein Wunder," by Kübra Gümüşay, DIE ZEIT / Christ & Welt, Germany, No. 17, April 19, 2018 (6).
"Amy Meissner | RE/Generation," by Anne Lee, Fiber Art Now, Vol. 7 Issue 3, Spring 2018 (32-35).
"Transformed by Needle," by Debra McKinney, Forum: The Magazine of the Alaska Humanities Forum, Spring 2018 (10-17).
2016
"The Fabric of a Woman," interview by Mary Bennellick, Be Inspired, Vol. 5, 2016.
"Come Find Me: Amy Meissner and the Secret Life of Cloth," by Dawnell Smith, Anchorage Press, Feb. 4, 2016.
2015
"Balance," interview by Kari Lorenson, Knotwe: The Hub for Fiber, Textiles, Surface Design, 2015.
"Mein Lieblingsquilt," Quilt & Textilkunst Patchwork Professional, Germany, May 2023, (38-39).
2022
"Will You Repair Me? From Wedding Dress Designer to Clothing Repairer," Podcast interview with Liudmila Aliabieva, Repair and Society Podcast, Episode 1, August 31, 2023.
"Crafting a Canon: Change Through Scholarship," by D Wood, Garland Magazine, 1 March 2022.
The Art of Mothering: Our Lives in Colour & Shadow, by Karen D. Miller (Illinois: Ampry Publishing, 2022) 44-45, 56-57, 80-82.
2021
Resilient Stitch: Well-being and Connection in Textile Art, by Claire Wellesley-Smith (London: Batsford Books, 2021) 28-29.
2020
"Porträt Amy Meissner," Quilt & Textilkunst Patchwork Professional, Germany, February 2020, (6-13).
2019
In Quest of Beauty: Assemblage in the Ahmanson Collection. John Silvis, curator. Pinatubo Press, 2019.
Just Wanna Quilt Podcast, Interview with Elizabeth Townsend Gard, posted January 8, 2019.
2018
"Pulling at Perfection: Mix of Meaning and Media in Fiber Art," by Amy O'Neill-Houck | Rasmuson Foundation + 49 Writers IAA Profiles.
"A New Mythology: Interview with Textile Artist Amy Meissner," Create! Magazine, Dec. 28, 2018.
"Amy Meissner: Beautiful Contemporary Art Carries Terrible Undertones," by Cindy Grisdella, SAQA Journal, Vol. 28, No. 4 (8-12).
Create! Magazine, Artist Profile, Art Miami/Anniversary Issue, curated by Kaly Scheller-Barrett, Issue 12, Winter 2018/19 (168-167).
Fiber Art Now: Excellence in Fibers IV, Carol Sauvion, Perry Price, Beth McLaughlin, jurors. Winter 2018/19.
"Sammlung: Ein Bild, Ein Satz, Ein Wunder," by Kübra Gümüşay, DIE ZEIT / Christ & Welt, Germany, No. 17, April 19, 2018 (6).
"Amy Meissner | RE/Generation," by Anne Lee, Fiber Art Now, Vol. 7 Issue 3, Spring 2018 (32-35).
"Transformed by Needle," by Debra McKinney, Forum: The Magazine of the Alaska Humanities Forum, Spring 2018 (10-17).
2016
"The Fabric of a Woman," interview by Mary Bennellick, Be Inspired, Vol. 5, 2016.
"Come Find Me: Amy Meissner and the Secret Life of Cloth," by Dawnell Smith, Anchorage Press, Feb. 4, 2016.
2015
"Balance," interview by Kari Lorenson, Knotwe: The Hub for Fiber, Textiles, Surface Design, 2015.