| Solo & 2-Artist Exhibitions | |
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| 2020 | Linda Gass: and then this happened..., (solo) Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA |
| 2018 | Reticulation, (2-artist) Bullseye Projects Gallery, Emeryville, CA |
| 2015 | Creative Ecology: Linda Gass–What we Discovered at Cooley Landing, (Solo), Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA |
| 2014 | Bird’s Eye View: Aerial Art, (2-Artist), Gallery at 48 Natoma, Folsom, CA |
| 2010 | Worlds, (2-Artist), Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA |
| 2004 | No Swimming, (Solo), Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, Mountain View, CA |
2002 |
Transparent Trespasses, (Solo), The Main Gallery, Redwood City, CA |
| Selected Invitational Exhibitions | |
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| 2024 | Big Basin Art About Exhibition, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, CA |
| Wildfire+Water, Playa Summer Lake, Summer Lake, OR | |
| 2023 | Under Water, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA |
| The Power of Empathy, Virtual Exhibition by Women Eco Artists Dialog | |
| 2022 | Dissolve, Institute and Museum of California Art, UC Irvine, CA |
| Fire Transforms, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA | |
| 35 x 35, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA | |
| 2021 | Art On the Edge: From Extraction to Restoration and Regeneration, Peninsula Museum of Art, San Bruno, CA |
| Making Waves, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Sources of Solace, Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA | |
| 2020 | FIRE, DVC Art Gallery, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA |
| 2019 | Fragile Blue Marble, Artik Art & Architecture, San Jose CA |
| Our Community Prepares, Acts of Nature Then and Now, Los Altos History Museum, Los Altos, CA | |
| 2018 | Art Responds: The Wine Country Fires, 1252 Gallery, Napa, CA |
| The Nature of a Stitch, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA | |
| Waterlines, New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA | |
| 2017 | Detritus, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA |
| Three Left Coast Artists: Linda Gass, Gyongy Lakey, Linda MacDonald, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, CA | |
| Rise Up: Art as Action, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2016 | The California Art Quilt Revolution, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, CA |
| Demarcate: Territorial shift in personal and societal mapping, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA | |
| Burning Ice, Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA | |
| 2014 | Above & Below: Stories From our Changing Bay, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA |
| 2013 | By Mainly Unexpected Means, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| Works on Water, Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA | |
| 2012 | Art + Life, Gallery Commonweal, Bolinas, CA |
| Delta Waters, LH Horton Jr. Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA | |
| 2011 | Reflections on Water, Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN |
| Green: the Color and the Cause, The Textile Museum, Washington, DC | |
| 2010 | Sew New: Contemporary Art Quilts, Osilas Gallery, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY |
| New Shades of Green, Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR | |
| 2009 | Still Water, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta GA |
| Seeing Green: Visions of a Changing Planet, Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA | |
| 2007 | Mapping the Territory, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO |
| Vanishing Borders: Contemporary Environmental Art, Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH | |
| 2006 | On Mapping: New Perspectives with a Common Thread, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA |
| Expo Magic Quilt, La Sucriére, Lyon, France | |
| 2005 | Beyond Tradition: Contemporary Art Quilts, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH |
| Public Art / Art in Public Places | |
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| 2024 | Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Big Basin Art About, glass and metal installation |
| 2023 | San Jose, Vitalia Apartments Affordable Housing, glass window design |
| 2021 | City of Los Altos, Community Center (2 mural designs as part of team) |
| 2019 | Alameda County, Alameda County Department of Environmental Health (3 artworks) |
| 2017 | East Palo Alto, The Living Shoreline Community Engaged Land Art Installation at Cooley Landing |
| 2016 | City of Palo Alto, Art in Public Places Collection, acquired Treatment print for permanent collection | 2015 | Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center Art Collection (3 artworks) |
| 2013 | Alameda County: one of five semi-finalists, San Lorenzo Library Renovation Project |
| 2012 | U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Art in Embassies program; 9 framed artworks loaned |
| 2011 | City of Palo Alto, Art in Public Places Collection, acquired Wetlands Musings for permanent collection |
| 2009 | City of Lafayette, Public Library, acquired On the Edge I for permanent collection |
| Museum & PERMANENT Collections | |
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| Langson Institute and Museum of California Art, acquired When we listen to the watershed and Wetlands Take Over for permanent collection, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA | |
| International Quilt Museum, acquired After the Gold Rush for permanent collection, Lincoln, NE | |
| Peninsula Conservation Center, acquired five photographic prints. Palo Alto, CA | |
| Hillsdale Shopping Center, temporary vinyl photomural installation, San Mateo, CA | |
| Kaiser Redwood City Medical Building, acquired six digital prints for their collection, Redwood City, CA | |
| UCSF Precision Cancer Medicine Building, Mission Bay, acquired In Transition for permanent collection, San Francisco, CA | |
| University of Chicago Medicine, acquired 3 artworks for permanent collection, Chicago, IL | |
| Lucille Packard Foundation for Children's Health, acquired 2 artworks for permanent collection, Palo Alto, CA | |
| Kapor Center for Social Impact, acquired Land Use Series for their collection, Oakland, CA | |
| San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, acquired On the Edge II for permanent collection, San Jose, CA | |
| Pacific Gas and Electric, acquired 3 artworks for new LEED Certified Building, San Ramon, CA | |
| Selected Juried Exhibitions | |
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| 2016 | Emerge/Evolve 2016, Bullseye Projects Gallery, Portland, OR |
| 2015 | Security Question, Hazel Wolf Gallery, Berkeley, CA |
| 1999 | Quilt National '99, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH |
| Awards & Artist Residencies | |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Outstanding Environmental Art Award, 1st place Friends of the San Francisco Estuary |
| 2023 | Wildfire + Water Artists and Scientists Collaborating for Change Playa Summer Lake Artist Residency |
| Big Basin Art About Artist Residency, Big Basin State Park | |
| 2021 | Belle Foundation Individual Artist Grant |
| 2015 | Creative Ecology Art + Science Residency, Palo Alto Art Center and Junior Museum and Zoo |
| 2013 | Silicon Valley Water Conservation Award, Education Category, for Shaped by Water Exhibition |
| 2012 | Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation |
| 2010 | Artist Laureate Award, Arts Council Silicon Valley (now Silicon Valley Creates) |
| 2007 | Artist in Residence, Cubberley Artist Studio Program, City of Palo Alto, CA |
| 1999 | Rookie Award, Quilt National '99, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH |
| Curating | |
|---|---|
| 2011 | Shaped by Water: Past, Present & Future, traveling educational and art exhibition: Los Altos History Museum, Los Gatos History Museum and History San Jose. |
| 2007 | Intimate Apparel, traveling art exhibition: Pi Gallery, Kansas City, MO; Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN & U Mass Dartmouth, MA. |
| Selected Bibliography & Publications | |
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| 2024 | Earth, Wind and Fire in the Redwoods, Washington Square: The Magazine, San Jose State University, Fall 2024 |
| In Stitches, Punch Magazine, February 2024 | |
| 2023 | Genre-Defying Art: Textiles and Maps, Bay Nature Magazine, Winter 2023 |
| Art x Climate, Fifth National Climate Assessment, U.S. Global Change Research Program (artwork featured on cover of Adaptation Section) | |
| Art and climate science collide at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, San Francisco Examiner, December 15, 2023 | |
| Museum Quality: Exploring Art Quilts, Studio Art Quilt Associates, Schiffer Publishers (pp 94-97) | |
| Palo Alto Art Center goes 'Under Water' for the latest in its series on climate change, Palo Alto Weekly, February 17, 2023 | |
| 2022 | How Climate Change Changed My Life, BBC News - The Cultural Frontline, October 8, 2022 |
| See How California Artists Process Wildfires Through Their Work, Smithsonian Magazine, October 2022 | |
| Processing the Trauma of Wildfires Through Art, Hyperallergic, October 2022 | |
| Meet Linda Gass | Environmental Artist and Activist, Shoutout LA, August 2022 | |
| Langson IMCA to Present Two Concurrent Exhibitions This Fall, Broadway World Costa Mesa, July 29, 2022 | |
| 2021 | Sea Change: Artists Open our eyes to exquisite ocean beauty and the perils these waters face (686KB PDF), American Craft Magazine, Summer Issue |
| Art and Design Fundamentals by Steven Bleicher, Oxford University Press. | |
| Photo Gallery: WEAD Artists Portfolio, WEAD Magazine, Issue 12, October 2021. | |
| Craft in America kicks off 2021 with ‘Making Waves: Craft and Ocean Ecology’ ArtFix Daily News | |
| Silicon Valley Reads: Euphrat exhibit provides ‘Sources of Solace' Mercury News, Jan. 16, 2021 | |
| Artists to Watch: Deborah Fell, Dianne Firth, Linda Gass, Bonnie Peterson, Art Quilt Quarterly #22, Studio Art Quit Associates. pp. 22-25 | |
| 2020 | Linda Gass + Survival Architecture @ MCD, SquareCylinder, February 28, 2020 |
| In Review: Linda Gass: and then this happened... (848KB PDF) Surface Design Journal, Spring 2020 (pp. 62-64) | |
| A Stitch in Time (José Romussi, Linda Gass, Jessica Rankin, Bisa Butler), Artists Magazine September 2020 | |
| Linda Gass: Stitched Paintings, Content Magazine. Jan/Feb 2020 | |
| Die Artivism Linda Gass Kunst trifft Aktivismus, Patchwork Professional 04/2020 | |
| Linda Gass: and then this happened...Solo exhibition explores climate change (385KB PDF), SAQA Journal, 2020 Volume 30, No. 1 | |
| Exploring the ways that creative individuals are addressing issues of climate change (716KB PDF), Sierra Club Yodeler, Spring 2020 | |
| Linda Gass: and then this happened... at the Museum of Craft and Design, Fiber Art Now, January 23, 2020 | |
| 2019 | Climate Change Told With Needle and Thread, Rachael Myrow, KQED Arts, December 21, 2019 |
| Art Quilts Unfolding: 50 Years of Innovation, Schiffer Publishers (p. 155) | |
| Why We Quilt: Contemporary Makers Speak Out about the Power of Art, Activism, Community and Creativity, Thomas Knauer, Storey Publishing, LLC | |
| Environmental Art Calendar 2020, Amber Lotus Publishers | |
| 2018 | All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey, pp. 294-5, National Geographic Publishers |
| Color, texture, nature on gallery’s exhibit schedule, Walla Walla Union Bulletin, August 23, 2018 | |
| Waterlines, Los Gatos Magazine, January 2018 issue | |
| 2017 | Living Art Growing in East Palo Alto, Palo Alto Weekly, February 22, 2017 |
| An Artist’s Sense of Place, FiberArtNow, Fall 2017 | |
| Cover art for Flightpaths: The Lost Journals of Amelia Earhart book of poetry by Heidi Greco | |
| Eureka at Thirty Years: Fleishhacker Foundation Artist Fellowships, forward by Christian L. Frock | |
| 2016 | Quilts Help Stitch Together New Perception of East Palo Alto’s Cooley Landing, Rachael Myrow, KQED, April 14, 2016 |
| Beauty in Truth, Earth Island Journal, Spring 2016 | |
| Cooley Landing Life Inspires Artist, San Jose Mercury News, January 18, 2016 | |
| Gorgeous Stitched Paintings Depict Environmental Destruction, Kate Horowitz, Mental Floss Magazine | |
| Huge art extravaganza in San Jose includes two dozen artists from the Peninsula, Palo Alto Daily News, Sept 14, 2016 | |
| 2015 | Earthy Artist, Interviewed by Spencer Christian, ABC News Bay Area March 23, 2015 |
| East Palo Alto: Artist Residency at Cooley Landing, Kevin Kelly, Palo Alto Daily News, June 3, 2015 | |
| Blending Art and the Environment, Sal Pizarro, San Jose Mercury News, June 3, 2015 | |
| Review: Cooley Landing - Linda Gass, by Michal Gavish, SF Art News, December 19, 2015 | |
| 2014 | Sufi Journal Environment Issue, Khaniqah Nimatullahi Publications |
| Bird's Eye View, SacTown Magazine, August September 2014 issue | |
| Take in 'A Bird's Eye View', Village Life Newspaper, August 19, 2014 | |
| 2013 | Environmental Art Calendar 2014, Amber Lotus Publishers |
| Art in Defense of Nature by Carol Doup Miller, Stanford Magazine, Jan/Feb 2013 | |
| 2012 | Artist Linda Gass immersed in love of water by Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, January 8, 2012 |
| Three Left Coast Artists by Barbara Shapiro, Textile Society of America Proceedings, September 2012 | |
| Water World, by Rebecca Wallace, Palo Alto Weekly, March 30, 2012 | |
| The Sky's the Limit at "Delta Waters" Art Show Stockton Record, March 1, 2012 | |
| Cover art for Essentials of Landscape Ecology by Kimberly With et al, Oxford University Press | |
| 2011 | Contemporary Color: Theory & Use, 2nd Edition, by Steven Bleicher, Delmar Cengage Learning |
| InReview Green: A color and a cause (689 KB PDF) by Marilyn Millstone, Surface Design Journal Fall 2011 | |
| Bombs Away: Fun with fabrics Minneapolis Star Tribune. June 10, 2011 | |
| 2010 | Creative Flow: Three Activist Artists by Sally Hansell, Fiberarts Summer 2010 |
| 500 Art Quilts, by Ray Hemachandra and Karey Bresenham, Lark Books | |
| Review: Still Water, Atlanta by Lucas Carpenter, Art Papers Jan/Feb 2010, p. 50-51 | |
| Cover Art and Artist Profile (369 KB PDF file) Art Calendar April 2010 | |
| 2009 | The Map As Art, by Katharine Harmon, Princeton Architectural Press |
| Innovative Quilts: Painting with Thread, AmericanStyle, February 2009 | |
| Sustainability Report 2009, cover art and interior illustration, CH2M Hill | |
| 2008 | Author of Radical Self-Expression: The Costumes of Burning Man, Fiberarts Jan/Feb 2008 |
| Review: She Made It! by Jack Van Zandt, Silicon Valley Metro, October 22, 2008. | |
| Featured artist in the contemporary art issue of The Bear Deluxe Magazine #28 Fall 2008 / Winter 2009 | |
| 2009 Environmental Art Calendar, Amber Lotus Publishers in conjunction with greenmuseum.org | |
| 2006 | Cover Art, Previews and Sampling Sections Fiberarts (PDF) Summer 2006. |
| 2005 | Art Notes by Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle. January 11, 2005 |
| Art Quilts: A Celebration, introduction by Robert Shaw. Lark Books | |
| 2004 | Fiberarts Design Book Seven, Published by Lark Books |
| 2003 | In Review (PDF) Surface Design Journal Volume 27 No. 3 |
| The Big Book of Quilting, by Cassia Farkas. Main Street Publishing | |
| 2000 | Batik : For Artists & Quilters by Eloise Piper. Hand Books Press |
| 1999 | The Best in Contemporary Quilts: Quilt National, 1999. Lark Books |
| Selected Public Speaking | |
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| 2023 | Panelist with Xavier Cortada and Kris May for "Art x Climate" After Dark, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA |
| 2022 | Long Now Member Ignite Talk View on YouTube. |
| Sinton Lecture for the de Young Museum Textile Arts Council View on YouTube. | |
| 2021 | Craft in America Center virtual presentation. View on YouTube. |
| Textile Talks, virtual presentation. View on YouTube. | |
| 2019 | The Foster Museum, Palo Alto, CA. View on YouTube. |
| San Jose Museum of Quits and Textiles, San Jose, CA | |
| 2018 | Kingsley Art Club, Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA |
| 2017 | Keynote Speaker for California Map Society Conference, Stanford, CA |
| Panelist for Anthropocene Initiative Society of Women Geographers, Triennial Conference, Asilomar, CA | |
| 2016 | Los Altos High School History Week |
| 2015 | Humanist Community of Silicon Valley Sunday Forum. View video on Vimeo. |
| 2013 | Panelist for Arts In Silicon Valley, moderator: Barbara Goldstein, Alliance of Artist Communities 2013 Conference, San Jose |
| 2010 | Plenary Speaker, Delta Stewardship Council Bay-Delta Science Conference, Sacramento, CA |
| 2009 | Invited Speaker, The Costumes of Burning Man, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA. View video clip. |
| 2005 | Textile Arts Council of the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA |
| 2004 | Guest in two episodes of Simply Quilts, Home and Garden Television Network |
| Professional Affiliations | |
|---|---|
| Baulines Craft Guild, Master Member, 2008 - 2016 | |
| Black Rock Arts Foundation, Advisory board member 2005-2015 | |
| San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, member of Board of Directors 2001 - 2003 | |
| Society of Women Geographers, member since 2020 | |
| Studio Art Quilt Associates, Juried Artist Member since 1999 | |
| Surface Design Association, Member since 1997, Southwest Regional Representative 2001 - 2009 | |
| Textile Arts Council, deYoung Museum of San Francisco, Member since 1999, Board Member 2003 - 2007 | |
| Women Eco Artists Dialog, Member since 2008 | |
| Education | |
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| Bay Area Public Art Academy, Certificate of Completion received January 2010 Sponsored by the Northern California Public Art Administrators Network | |
| MS Computer Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Art Course work: Digital Typography with Chuck Bigelow, Calligraphy with Kris Holmes, Advanced Black and White Photography with Joel Leivick |
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| BS Mathematical Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Art Course work: Life Drawing, Basic Design with Matt Kahn, Black and White Photography with Mariam Ring, History of Modern Art, History of Renaissance Art |
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