It all started in 1979. Brian and I received a quilt as a wedding present, a green and white “Robbing Peter to Pay Paul” dating from the late 19th century, and I was hooked. As a girl who had grown up in the ‘60s and ‘70s, in a house decorated in 60's psychedelic, I found myself strangely drawn to that quilt. I signed up for a quiltmaking class and discovered my obsession with textiles. My background is technical, not artistic. I have a degree in Geology from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and an MBA from the University of Texas Permian Basin in Odessa, Texas. I worked for many years in hospital marketing and public relations and in a regional blood bank. After my husband’s job moved us to Fort Worth, Texas, I became a full-time quilt artist. I've studied with Nancy Crow, Terri Jarrard-Diamond, David Hornung and Lisa Call. I've come a long way from my traditional roots!
"Material Construction", Fort Worth Community Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas
2015
"Art on the Horizon", Carrollton, Texas
"Soft Linearity", Elm Creek Studio, Keller, Texas
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS 2018
Stitched Construct, Sabine St. Studios, Houston, Texas
2017
Fiber Abstractions, North Lake College, Irving, Texas
Circular Abstractions, Ohio Decorative Arts Center, Lancaster, Ohio
Circular Abstractions, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York
2016
Friends of Fiber, Irving, Texas
2015
Quilt Visions-American Modern Quilt Art, Oulu Museum of Art, Oulu, Finland
JURIED EXHIBITIONS 2023
Quilt National, Athens, Ohio
QuiltCon, Atlanta, Georgia
Red, Studio Art Quilt Associates, debuting at International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas
2022
International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas
Sacred Threads, Herndon, Virginia
American Quilter's Society, Paducah, Paducah, Kentucky
QuiltCon, Phoenix, Arizona
2021
Light the World, European Patchwork Meeting, San-Marie-Aux-Mines, France
Connections, Studio Art Quilt Associates, debuting at International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas
International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas
Quarantine Quilts: Creativity in the Midst of Chaos, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts
2020
Primal Forces: Earth, International Quilt Museum, Paducah, Kentucky
Quarantine Quilts: Creativity in the Midst of Chaos, National Quilt Museum, Paducah, Kentucky
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York
Circles, Square, & Triangles: Geometry in Quilts, The Museum of Geometric and Madi Art, Dallas, Texas
Fresh Ideas 2020, Visual Art League of Lewisville, Lewisville, Texas
Opposites Attract, Studio Art Quilt Associates, juried by Gail M. Brown, debuting at Australasian Quilt Festival
Musica!, Studio Art Quilt Associates, juried by Joe Cunningham, National Quilt Museum, Paducah, Kentucky
2019
Quilts=Art=Quilts, juried by Petra Fallaux and Clair Benn, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York
International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas
Sacred Threads, Herndon, Virginia
Dinner @ 8: The Final Year, Chicago, Illinois
American Quilter's Society, Daytona Beach, Florida
Season After Season, Studio Art Quilt Associates, juried by Karey Bresenhan and Nancy O'Bryant Puentes, Texas Quilt Museum, La Grange, Texas
2018
Quilts=Art=Quilts, juried by Gerri Spilka and Kit Vincent, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York
American Quilter's Society Fall Paducah, Paducah, Kentucky
Dinner @ 8: The Final Year, Houston, Texas
Metamorphosis, Studio Art Quilt Associates, juried by David Hornung, Houston, Texas
American Quilter's Society Spring Paducah, Paducah, Kentucky
TEXtiles, SAQA Regional Exhibit, San Antonio, Texas
Escapades in Fiber, Dallas Area Fiber ARTists Annual Show, jury by Peggy Epner, Dallas, Texas
Art Quilt Elements 2018, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, Pennsylvania, juried by Paul Smith, Marsha Moss and Mi-Kyoung Lee
2017
Dinner @ 8: Personal Iconography, Houston, Texas
International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas
Texas Artists' Coalition Impromptu Invitational, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
Texas Quilts: Art in Stitch, Abilene Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, Texas
American Quilter's Society, Spring Paducah, Kentucky
Fiberlicious, Dallas Area Fiber ARTists Annual Show, juried by Gayle Curry, Dallas, Texas
Textile Posters, Studio Art Quilt Associates, juried by Joseph Lupo, Houston, Texas
Visual Arts Society of Texas (VAST) 11th Annual 125-Visual Arts Exhibition, juried by Linda Ridgway, Denton, Texas
2016
International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas
Quilts=Art=Quilts, juried by Valerie Goodwin, Terry Jarrard-Dimond and Judy Kirpich, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York
Yvonne Porcella, Crafting a Life, Napa, California
Best of the Biennial, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
Dallas Area Fiber ARTists Annual Show, juried by Suzanne Morgan, Dallas, Texas
American Quilter's Society, Paducah, Kentucky
Visual Arts Society of Texas (VAST) 10th Annual 125-Mile Visual Arts Exhibition, juried by Dr. John Marcucci, Denton, Texas
Circular Abstractions: Bullseye Quilts, juried by Nancy Crow, Muskegon, Michigan
2015
Forney Art Council Show, Forney, Texas
2015 Fiber Artists of San Antonio Annual Show, juried by Mary Heathcott, San Antonio, Texas
Fiber Focus: Dallas Area Fiber Artists, juried by Vicki Mayhan, Dallas, Texas
International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas
Texas Artists Coalition 10th Annual Show, juried by Cohn Drennan, Fort Worth, Texas
Dinner at Eight, juried by Jamie Fingal and Leslie Tucker Jenison, Houston, Texas
FOCUS: Fiber, juried by Julio Suarez, Dallas, Texas
QuiltCon, Austin, Texas
2014
Spun: Innovations in Fiber Art, juried by Bartholomew Bland, Etui Fiber Arts Gallery, Larchmont, New York
Quilts=Art=Quilts, juried by Valerie Goodwin and Kathleen Loomis, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York
Art in the Garden, Fort Worth, Texas
International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas
Quilt Visions 2014: the Sky's the Limit, juried by Sue Benner, Patty Hawkins and Bruce Hoffman, San Diego, California
Form, Not Function, juried by Denise Burge, Rebecca Cross and Valerie C. White, New Albany, Indiana
The Fine Art of Fiber, juried by Teri Muse, Dallas, Texas
American Quilter's Society, Paducah, Kentucky
Road to Califiornia, Ontario, California
2013
International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas
Infinity Art Gallery, online, juried by Nancy Dobson and MarDee Hanson
High Fiber Diet, juried by Cynthia Padilla, Dallas, Texas
The Art in Fiber, Round Top, Texas, juried by Karey Brensenhan
2012
Hands All Around, International Quilt Market and Festival, Houston, Texas, Cincinnati, Ohio, Chicago, Illinois, Long Beach California, Portland, Oregon, juried by Karey Bresenhan
Reflections in Fiberart, juried by Nina Mihm, Austin, Texas
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018
Dallas Quilt Celebration, Dallas, Texas
2017
North Texas Quilt Festival, Arlington, Texas
Dallas Quilt Celebration, Dallas, Texas
2016
Trinity Valley Quilt Guild Annual Show, Fort Worth, Texas
FWCAC Biennial 2016, Fort Worth, Texas
Dallas Quilt Celebration, Dallas, Texas
2015
Trinity Valley Quilt Guild Annual Show, Fort Worth, Texas
Dallas Quilt Celebration, Dallas, Texas
2014
SAQA Texas Region traveling exhibit, "A Texas Experience"
Trinity Valley Quilt Guild Annual Show, Fort Worth, Texas
Dallas Quilt Celebration, Dallas, Texas
2013
Trinity Valley Quilt Guild Show, Fort Worth, Texas
2012
Trinity Valley Quilt Guild Show, Fort Worth, Texas
Dallas Quilt Celebration, Dallas, Texas
2011
Trinity Valley Quilt Guild Show, Fort Worth, Texas
Dallas Quilt Celebration, Dallas, Texas
AWARDS 2019
First place ribbon for "Shock Melt", Art: Abstract, Small Division, International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas
First place ribbon for "Tiger's Eye", Art: Abstract, Large Division, International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas
Second place ribbon for "Shock Melt", Art Category, Dallas Quilt Show, Dallas, Texas
2018
Third place ribbon for "Wild Thing", Wall Quilts: Art Quilts, AQS Fall Paducah, Paducah, Kentucky
Honorable Mention for Schist #1, Wall Quilts: Pieced Quilts, AQS Fall Paducah, Paducah, Kentucky
First place ribbon for "Tuning Fork #29: The Salt Marsh Near First Encounter Beach", Small Wall Quilts, Moveable Machine Quilted, AQS Spring Paducah, Paducah, Kentucky
2017
Third place ribbon for "Schist #2", Art: Abstract - Large Division, International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Craftsmanship, Fiberlicious, Dallas, Texas
2016
First place ribbon for "Tuning Fork #29: The Marsh Near First Encounter Beach, Art: Abstract - Large Division, International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas
First Place and Judges Choice for "Schist #2", Trinity Valley Quilt Guild Annual Show, Fort Worth, Texas
Honorable Mention for "Tuning Fork #11", AQS Quiltweek, Art Quilt Division, Paducah, Kentucky
Third place award for "Tuning Fork #26: Green Flash", DAFA Annual Show, Dallas, Texas
Third place ribbon for "Tuning Fork #29: The Marsh Near First Encounter Beach, Master Art Division, Dallas Quilt Celebration, Dallas, Texas
Harris, Erin, QuiltEssential, Layfayette, California, C&T Publishing, pp. 114-115
2002
Brensenhan, Karey, America From the Heart: Quilters Remember September 11, 2001, Layfayette, California, C&T Publishing, p. 18
Barker, Jackie, “Woman of 100 Quilts is Always in Stitches”, Life & Arts Section, p. 1, Houston Chronicle, September 5, 2002 (click here to read article)
Tuning Fork #2 was used on the poster advertising the 2011 Fri Resonans Festival in Norway.