Joan Griffin

Experience

Joan Griffin has been weaving for thirty years and is a full time studio artist who divides her time between hand weaving tapestries for exhibitions and for commissions. Her degrees include a MFA in Textile Design, Antioch University and BS Art Education, S.U.N.Y. College, Buffalo, NY.

She has taught at various art centers,colleges and high schools. She was also Research Ass’t to Irene Emery, curator emeritus, Textile Museum,Wash. DC. Currently she teaches weekend workshops in her Charlottesville studio.

Selected Exhibitions

  • Land:Tapestry Foundation of Victoria Exhibition, National University, Canberra, Australia 2008
  • Small Expressions 2007. Univ. of Nebraska,Lincoln and Indianapolis Art Center, IN
  • Tapestry:People and Places, Artisan Center of Virginia, Waynesboro, VA 2007
  • Southern Yarns,Southern Highland folk Art Center, Asheville, NC 2007
  • Augusta Medical Center First Floor Gallery, one person exhibit. Fisherville, VA (2006)
  • Fiber Celebrated 2006: Lincoln Art Center, Ft. Collins, CO.
  • Craft National 2006: Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster PA
  • On the Soft Edge: An Adventure in Contemporary Textiles, Dorchester Arts Center, Cambridge, MD (2005)
  • Natures Texture, Gallery at Fifth and Water, Charlottesville, VA (2005)
  • Celebration of Fiber, Apex Gallery,Washington, DC (2005)
  • Crossing Boundaries: The Tapestry Group, Good Goods Gallery, Saugatuck, MI (2004)
  • Spotlight 2003: Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC American Craft Council Southeast Juried Exhibit
  • Tapestry: Art in Fiber: OakRidge ArtCenter, OakRidge,TN, Spartanburg County Museum, SC (2002)
  • Moments in Tapestry: Fine Line Creative Arts Center, St. Charles, IL (2001)
  • International Invitational Liturgical Art Guild Exhibit, Schumacher Gallery, Columbus Ohio (1999)
  • It’s a Garden Party, Suffolk Museum, Suffolk, VA, 2nd prize (1999)
  • Encore, Atlanta Design Center, Atlanta, GA (1998)
  • American Tapestry Biennial, traveling exhibit ‘96-97,
  • SELECT: Juried Regional Exhibit: Sawhill Gallery, J.Madison Univ. Harrisonburg, VA (1995)
  • TWINE Exhibition: Emporium Gallery, Dover, NH (1995)
  • Fiber Celebrated ‘95: Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
  • Seasons of the Earth: group show, The Creator’s Hand, Rochester, NY. (1994)
  • More than One: Contemporary Tapestry & Beyond, Curtiss Museum, Hammondsport, NY and S.U.N.Y. Geneseo, NY (1994)
  • Tapestry: solo exhibit, Hinkle Library, S.U.N.Y. Alfred, NY (1994)
  • Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibiton: Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
  • Tapestry: Recent Works by Joan Griffin: Fibers and Fantasy, Corning, NY (1993)

Corporate / Residential / Liturgical Commissions / Collections

  • Augusta Medical Center, Fisherville, VA
  • Martha Jefferson Hospital Outpatient Clinic, Charlottesville, VA
  • St Francis de Sales, Abingdon, MD
  • Holy Family Catholic Community, Middletown, MD
  • Residence, Mclean, VA
  • University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill, NC
  • Wheeling Medical Center Hospital Chapel, Wheeling, W. VA
  • Recreational Vehicle Industry Association, Reston, VA
  • Residence, Fairfax, VA, Chevy Chase Savings & Loan, Olney, MD
  • Satellite Business Systems, Mclean, VA