Geary Jones

Professional Experience:

2007

Guest Lecturer, Ann Arbor Fiber Arts Guild, Michigan

2006

Keynote Speaker: Muskegon Museum of Arts. Docents and Volunteer Appreciation Night

Writer: Becoming Part of Convergence, Destination 1111 Catalog

Organized and Hosted: On Your Remark, an exhibit of the Cranbrook Academy of Art’s Fiber Department,
Grand Rapids, Michigan and Andrea Anderson, Destination 1111, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Editor and Distributor:
Destination 1111 Fine Arts Catalog, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Guest Lecturer:
Ann Arbor Fiber Arts Guild, Michigan

Co Host:
Destination 1111: Grand Fibers Show, featuring artists from the Michigan League of Handweavers

Juror:
East Lansing Arts Festival, East Lansing, Michigan

Guest Lecturer:
Michigan League of Handweavers, Eaton Rapids, Michigan

2005

Juror: East Lansing Arts Festival, East Lansing, Michigan

2004

Co-founder: “Art Is…” An independent art organization of Grand Rapids, Michigan

Workshop: The Grand Rapids Public Schools Art Teachers

Juror: East Lansing Arts Festival, East Lansing, MI 1996

Head of Fibers: Buck’s Rock, New Milford, Connecticut

Guest Lecturer: Emory and Henry College, Emory, VA

1992

Guest Lecturer:
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
The Cleveland Art Institute, Oh
The University College of Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Philadelphia College of Textiles, PA

Workshop:
The Ann Arbor Handweaver’s Guild, MI
The Philadelphia Handweaver’s Guild, PA

1991

Visiting Artist:
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
The Tucson Artist’s Consortium, Tucson, Arizona
The University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Guest Lecturer: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Workshop: Peter’s Valley, Layton, NJ
Workshop & Lecture: Handweaver’s Guild of Boulder, CO

1990

Guest Lecturer:
The University of Kansas, Lawrence KS
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
The Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Workshop: Thousand Island School of Crafts, Clayton, NY
Visiting Artist: Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, TN

1989

Work Presented:
The Austrian Tapestry Symposium, Graz, Austria
The British Tapestry Symposium, London, England

1988

Juror:
The 7th Annual North/South Carolina Fiber Competition,
Queen’s College, Charlotte, NC
Workshop: The University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Coordinator: Penland’s Fall Fibers Program, Penland, NC

1987

Workshop:
The Tapestry Gallery, Madrid, New Mexico
Penland, Penland, NC
Guest Lecturer:
The Santa Fe Library, NM
Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID
The University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1985

Workshop: The North Shore Handweaver’s Guild, Chicago, IL

Visiting Artist: The Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland OR

Guest Lecturer:
The Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, Or
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Education

1979-1981 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
MFA

1974-1978 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
BFA

1972-1974 Grand Rapid Junior College, Grand Rapids, MI

Publications

American Craft, Fiberarts, Threads, Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, The New Art Examiner, The New York Times, Display, The Cranbrook Journal, The Boston Globe, The Dallas Morning News, The Detroit Free Press, The Ann Arbor New, The Chicago Tribune, The Post Dispatch, St. Louis, MO, Art Guide, Art Stars, A! Magazine for the Arts, The Bristol Herald Courier, The Grand Rapids Press, Art Week, The Muskegon Chronicle, The Valley Times, The Oregonian, The Buffalo News, The Detroit News, Craft Horizons, and The Grand Rapids Press.

Awards Received

2007-2008
Pollock/Krasner Grant recipient
2007
Second Prize, Festival, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan
2006
Best of Show, West Michigan Competition, Muskegon Art Museum, Michigan
2005
2nd Place, West Michigan Competition, Muskegon Art Museum, Michigan
2003
Honorable Mention
The West Michigan Competition, Muskegon Museum of Art, MI
1995
Named National Craftsperson for Emory & Henry College, Emory, VA
1991
Fellowship Recipient, Arts Midwest Regional / NEA- Visual Arts
Grantee
1990
Wickers Award, The 4th Annual Michigan Competition, Holland Arts
Center, Holland, MI
1986
Best of Show, Celebration of Creativity, The Crossman Gallery,
Whitewater, WI
1984
Second Prize, The Sunriver Juried Art Show, Sunriver, OR
Best of Show, Exigious Art, The Fine Arts Center En Taos, NM,1983
Hackley-Comerica Award, The West Michigan Competition, Muskegon
Museum of Art, MI
1982
2nd Prize, Celebration; The Seaway Festival, The Muskegon
Museum of Art, MI
2nd Prize, The 15th Annual Hartland Art Show, Hartland, MI
1981
Merit Award, Innovations in Fiber II, Denver Center for the Performing
Arts, CO
Best of Fibers, Renaissance ’81, The Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI
Best of Show, Festival of the Arts, The County Building, G.R. , MI
1980
Grant Recipient, The Handweavers Guild of America
1978
Honorable Mention, Intent ’78, The Bruce Gallery, Edinborough
State University, Edinborough, PA
1974
Grant Recipient, The Ford Foundation

Selected Exhibitions

2008
Paloma Gallery,Ann Arbor, Michigan
2007
Hot House: Expanding the Role of Fibers at Cranbrook, 1970-2007, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2006
Think Again! The Presence of the Past in Contemporary Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
West Michigan Competition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan
Festival, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Destination 1111 (II), Grand Rapids, Michigan
2005
Destination 1111, Grand Rapids, Michigan
The 77th Regional Competition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan
Celebration, lst United Methodist Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Festival of the Arts, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan
Serious Moonlight, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Destination 1111, Grandville, Michigan
The Itinerate Collector-The Robert Pfannebecker Collection, Network Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2004
Group Exhibition, “Art Is….”, Grandville, Michigan
The 76th Regional Competition, Muskegon Art Museum, Muskegon, Michigan
2003
East Lansing Gallery, East Lansing, Michigan
The 75th Regional Competition, Muskegon Art Museum, Muskegon, Michigan
Group Exhibition, The Nikki Wall Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1999
The Herman Miller Collection, Herman Miller Design Yard, Holland, Michigan
1996
Craft Artists from the Robert Pfannebecker Collection, Hershey Museum of Art, Hershey, Pennsylvania
Octagon’s Clay, Fiber, Glass, Metal, and Wood Exhibition, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, Iowa
1995
Fiberarts International, The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pennsylvania
Celebration, lst United Methodist Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Festival of the Arts, Van Andel Public Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1994
Celebration, lst United Methodist Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1993
State of the Art – Contemporary Fiber, The Loveland Art Museum, Colorado
Faculty Exhibition, Touchstone Gallery, Uniontown, Pennsylvania
Celebration of American Craft, The Mendocino Art Gallery, Mendocino, California
Group Exhibition, Allison Wells Gallery, Canton, Missouri
Resident’s Retrospective, The Hoffman Gallery, Portland, Oregon
The Arts Midwest Fellowship Exhibition, The Arts Foundation of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan
1992
Fiber Art: New Directions for the Nineties, The Manchester Institute for the Arts, Manchester, New Hampshire
Vessels, The Holland Arts Council, Holland, Michigan
Group Exhibition, The South Haven Center for the Arts, South Haven, Michigan
KRASL Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan
Celebration, lst United Methodist Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Festival of the Arts, The Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1991
Doremus Gallery, Layton, New Jersey
The American Cultural Center, Kigali Rwanda, Africa
The Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
The Fabric of Life: Contemporary Works in American Fiber – The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Massachusetts
The Natural History Museum, Port Louis, Mauritius, Africa
Elon College, Greensborough, North Carolina
1990
The 4th Annual Michigan Competition, Holland, Michigan
The American Cultural Center, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Africa
The National Gallery, Zimbabwe, Africa
The National Library, Mbabane, Swaziland, Africa
Craft: The 21st Century, The Appalachian Center for the Crafts, Smithville, Tennessee
Vocabularies in Woven Fiber, The University of Maine, Farmington, Maine
1989
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
Creative Arts Center, Sunnyvale, California
C.I.G.N.A., Museum & Art Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Arrowmont Gallery, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Festival of the Arts, County Building, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, Tennessee
Texas A & M University Memorial Student Center, Dallas, Texas
Group Exhibition, The G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Celebration, lst United Methodist Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
Bloomingdale Park District Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, Colorado
1988
SITES Introductory Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon
Dallas City Hall, Dallas, Texas
Hoke College Center, LaGrange, Oregon
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Longview Museum and Art Center, Longview, Texas
Schneider Art Museum, Ashland, Oregon
The Art Institute for the Permian Basin, Odessa, TX
The State Capital Building, Salem, Oregon
The Stoner Art Center, Amarillo, Texas
The Art Center, Waco, TX
The Arvada Center for the Arts, Denver, Colorado
Threadworks, The Baltimore Art Museum, curated by Lloyd Herman for the Smithsonian Travelling Exhibition
Fibers, Artphase 1, Chicago, Illinois
Pictorial and Narrative Fibers, Dallas City Hall, Dallas, TX, a travelling exhibition, curated by Tom Lundburg
Contemporary Textiles, The Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1987
The Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
Celebration, lst United Methodist Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts
Energetic Fiber, Virginian Beach Arts Center, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Textile as Language, Haviland, Strickland, & Arronson Galleries. A travelling exhibition curated by Sandra Brownlee, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Oregon Biennial, The Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Bumbershoot, Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington
The Uncommon Thread, G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Fiber Structure National, Downey Art Museum, Downey, California
1986
The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Galleries of Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California
The University of California, Riverside, California
The l7th Celebration of American Crafts, The Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut
Fiber Direction, Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois
Oregon Fiberworks, State Capital Galleria, Salem, Oregon
Celebration of Creativity, The Crossman Gallery, Whitewater, Michigan
Fiber National, The Adams Memorial Gallery, Dunkirk, New York
Collaboration, The G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Western States Contemporary Craft, Salt Lake City Art Center, Utah
Sunriver Juried Art Show, Sunriver Lodge, Oregon
West Coast Tapestry, Wayne Martin in conjunction with the Fountain Street
Gallery, curated by Arlene Schnitzer, Portland, Oregon
Fiber R/Evolution, The War Memorial and the University Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Curated by Jeda Al Hilali, Mildred Constantine, and Mary Jane Jacobs. A touring exhibition.
1985
Crafts Nation, The Uptown Hall Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Fiber Celebrated, The Albuquerque Main Library, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Northwest Fiber, The American Art Company, Tacoma, Washington
1984
Fiber Structure National, The Downey Art Museum, Downey, California
Fiber National, The Adams Memorial Gallery, Dunkirk, New York
Exiguous Art, The Fine Arts Center, Taos, New Mexico
Fine Focus, The Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Impulse: New Images in Fabric, The Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan
The Elements Gallery, New York, New York
1983
Textures, The Numbus Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Festival of the Arts, The County Building, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Group Exhibition, Gallery Louis, Grand Rapids, Michigan
The West Michigan Regional, The Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan
Celebration, lst United Methodist Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan
The Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey
1982
Space Sails: American Banners, The Midland Art Center, Midland, Michigan
Celebration: The Seaway Festival, The Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan
Celebration, lst United Methodist Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan
The Great Lakes Regional, Cleveland, Ohio
The 15th Annual Hartland Art Show, Hartland, Michigan1981
Innovations in Fiber II, The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Colorado
Renaissance 81, The Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Festival of the Arts, The County Building, Grand Rapids, Michigan
The Cranbrook Summer Show, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
MFA Thesis Show, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
1980
Art From Craft Materials, The Focus Art Museum, Detroit, Michigan
Textile Invitational, The Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan
1978
Intent 78, The Buce Gallery, Edinborough, Pennsylvania
Scottsdale IX, The Scottsdale Art Center, Scottsdale, Arizona
Degree Show, The Student Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1977
Festival of the Arts, The County Building, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1976
Festival of the Arts, The County Building, Grand Rapids, Michigan