CURRENT & UPCOMING

Diagonal Knitting. Book to be published by Schoolhouse Press. 2009.

Year of Wool. Knitting & spinning tutorials, 5th & 6th grade. Friendship Village School. Friendship, ME. Maine Community Foundation grant. January-December, 2008.

Workshop. Friendship Spinners. Shakertown, Kentucky. June 13-15, 2008.

Beyond Knitting: Uncharted Stitches. Invitational exhibit. San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. Making Room, Mime for the Gulf War Birds, Portrait of Alzheimers. San Jose, CA. June 17-August 24, 2008.

Elementary school knitting project. Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Deer Isle, ME. Fall, 2008.

SOLO SHOWS & AWARDS

Maine Fiberarts. Topsham, ME. ‘Clothing as Sculpture’. Invitational show. Jan- Feb, 2005

Colby College Museum of Art. Invitational Show. ‘Envision’. Waterville, ME. December 7, 2003 - January 25, 2004.

Center for Maine Contemporary Art. 50th Anniversary Exhibition of Distinguished Artists. Slick, installation. August 10-October 5, 2002.

Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts. Solo Show: ‘Katharine Cobey - Fiber Sculpture’. Boat with Four figures and other pieces. Houston, TX. January 18 - April 7, 2002.

City Hall Rotunda, Portland, Maine. Ritual Against Homelessness. May, 1999.

The Textile Museum. Washington, DC. At ‘Celebration’. 1992.

The Textile Museum. Washington, DC. Dream Shelters, installation. 1990.

Torpedo Factory Art Center. ‘Art in Public Spaces’. Dream Shelters, installation. 1989.

Capital Children’s Museum. Washington, DC. Artist in Residence and Exhibition. 1989.

Contemporary Works of Faith. Columbus, OH. Best of Show. Ritual Against Homelessness.1995.

Artist of the Year. Friends of the Torpedo Factory. Juror, Jeremy Adamson, Curator, The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Museum. Alexandria, VA. 1992.


INVITATIONAL EXHIBITS AND JURIED SHOWS

Chandler Arizona Sculpture Walk. Vision Gallery. Mirage. Installation. September 1 – December 30, 2007.

Center for Maine Contemporary Art. Rockport, ME. ‘Work of the Hand’. Invitational show. Six pieces. October 5- 14, 2007.

Fiber International 2007. Lancaster Museum of Art. Lancaster, PA. Juried by Gail Brown.To Shine. Installation. August 4 – September 9, 2007.

Ohio Craft Museum. Columbus, OH. 'Trashformations'. Invitational Show. Danger Dress. February 10 - April 5, 2007.

Kohler Arts Center. 'Ready to Wear', invitational show. Mirage, Makeshift, Slick. October 3-January 30, 2005.

Farnsworth Museum. Rockland, ME. 'Uncoverings', invitational show. Boat With Four Figures, Making Room, Empty-headed. September 19-February 20, 2005.

Maine Fiberarts, clothing as sculpture show.Jan- Feb 2 2005.

Art Gallery of the University of New England. Invitational Show. 'Envision'. Portland, ME. February 3 – March 20. 2004.

Kerrigan-Campbell Gallery. Invitational show. 'Winter solace'. New York, NY. December 18-February 1, 2004.

Hay Gallery. ‘Fiber as Sculpture’. Invitational exhibit. Portland, ME. May 5-30, 2004.

Zoellner Arts Gallery, Lehigh University. ‘Natural Elements: sculptural expressions’. Invitational show. Boat with Four Figures, Danger Dress, and Loose Ends. Installations. July 31 - October 6, 2002.

University of Southern Maine. ‘Transformations’. Invitational show. September 4 - December 14, 2002.

Nike Design Library. Beaverton, OR. Pretenses and Slick, installations. June-August, 2001.

Traveling Exhibit. Ten American art museums. ‘Trashformations’, curated by Lloyd E. Herman.  Loose Ends, mobile. 1997-2001.

Flinn Gallery. Greenwich, CT. Mirage. Mobile. December, 2000.

Gallery of the University of Southern Maine. ‘The Inspired Hand’. September-October. 2000.

ARTcetera 2000. Boston, MA. Comic Strip. Mask. October, 2000.

Wall Street Viewing Room. New York, NY. Danger Dress and Mirage. May-June, 2000.

Portland Museum of Art. Portland, ME. Boat with Four Figures, Portrait of Alzheimer’s, Mirage. Spring 1999.

Maine Fabric & Fiber Festival. Fashion Show. Five Headdresses. Portland, ME. 1999.

Target Gallery. Alexandria, VA. Three person show & gallery talk. 1998.

Gallery K. Washington, DC. ‘Fashion Happening’.Mirage. Curator, Alice Denny. 1998.

Breaking Patterns: Contemporary Handknitting in the United States. Prince Georges County, MD. Danger Dress, mobile. 1997.

Bumbershoot 1997 ‘Fresh Clothes’. Bumbershoot, CA. Curated by Lloyd E. Herman. Loose Ends, mobile.

‘Designed to Wear’. Portland, Oregon. Two pieces. 1993.

‘Convergence’. Washington, DC. Conference of the Handweavers Guild of America. Fall, installation. Pieces in the Political show, Teachers’ show, and Spatial Expressions. 1992.


TEACHING, TALKS & DEMONSTRATIONS

Association of American University Women. Rockport, ME. ‘Betty Friedan and Knitting’. Lecture. October 17, 2007.

Split Rock Arts Program, University of Minnesota. St. Paul, MN. ‘Knittting, a Different Slant’. Workshop. July 15 – 21, 2007.

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Deer Isle, ME. ‘Knitting, a sculptural skill’. Workshop. June 3 – 17, 2007.

Costume Design Classes. Vinalhaven, ME. Vinalhaven High School. February, 2006.

Fuller Craft Museum. Brockton, MA. Lectures. Sculptural Knitting and Craft and Issues. March 8, 2006

Peters Valley Craft Education Center. 'Sculptural Knitting'. Class. June 17-23, 2005.

Surface Design International Conference. Kansas City. Diagonal Knitting workshop. May 29-June 1, 2005.

Peabody Essex Museum. Textile Art Symposium. Guest presenter. Salem, MA. September 30-October 4, 2004.

Maine College of Art. Continuing Studies Program. 'Sculptural Knitting'. Class. September-October, 2004.

Kentucky Guild. 'Knitting Clothing, a three-dimensional pleasure'. Workshop. June 2004.

Memphis Knitting Guild. Workshop. ‘Knitting,a construction skill’. Memphis, TN. March, 2004.

Maine College of Art. Course. ‘Sculptural knitting’. Portland, ME. Sept.9-Oct. 21, 2003.

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. ‘Knitting, a sculptural skill.’ Class. August 17-29, 2003.

Penland School of Crafts. ‘Knitting, A Sculptural Technique’. Workshop. June 8-20, 2003.

Design Study Groups. Monthly sculpture & knitting seminars. Cushing studio. 1992-02.

Textile Study Group of New York. Lecture. November 20, 2002.
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Design Knitting Workshop. October 11-14, 2002.

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Design Knitting Workshop. October 11-14, 2002.

Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts. ‘Knitting -A Different slant’. Workshop. January 2002.

Boston Knitters Guild. Lecture & exhibit: ‘Knitting Mavericks’. May, 2000.

Morris Farm. Workshops. Wiscasset, Maine, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003.

Green Mountain Spinnery. Putney, VT. Three day workshop. Fall, 1999.

Maine Fabric & Fiber Festival. Portland, ME. ‘Knitting Structure’. Workshops. 1999.

Target Gallery. Alexandria VA. Knit-in & gallery talk. 1998

Lectures & workshops for schools and guilds  (‘Good Bread, Great Plastics’,  ‘Authors & Authority in Knitting’, ‘Knitting Sculpture’). 1988-present.

Women’s Caucus For Art. Philadelphia. Producer, moderator, panelist: ‘The Medusa Project’. 1997.

Women’s Caucus for Art. Boston, MA. Panelist: ‘Sources of Inspiration’. National Conference. 1996.

Maine Public Radio. ‘Maine Things Considered’. Interview by Charlotte Renner. June, 1995.

Torpedo Factory Art Center. Juried demonstration studio. Alexandria VA. 1985-1992.

‘Convergence’. Washington, DC.  ‘Spinning with a Navajo Spindle’. Workshop & demonstration. 1992.


PUBLICATION

Fiberarts Design Book 7. Boat with Four Figures, Throw Caution to the Winds.

Casting off Convention. Article. Bangor Metro Magazine. May, 2007.

Fiberarts. Article. 'Furthering your fiber education’. September-October 2003.

Surface Design. Article by Christine Macchi: ‘Artist, Sculptor, Inventor, Knitter’. Spring, 2002.

Catalog. ‘Katharine Cobey Fiber Sculpture’. Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts. 2002.

Interweave Knits. Article by Melanie Falick: ‘Scarlet Gown’. Summer, 2001.

A Gathering of Lace. Ed. Meg Swanson, XRX Books. Gallery Section. Mirage. Mobile. 2001.

www.katharinecobey.com. Website. Cathy Emery. 2001

Fiberarts. Profile. March. 2000.

Interweave Knits. Article: ‘Cobweb For Emily’. Winter. 1999.

Knitting in America by Melanie Falick, Artisan Press. Featured artist. 1996.

Trashformations: Recycled Materials in Contemporary American Art and Design. by Lloyd E. Herman, University of Washington Press. Featured artist. 1998.

Maine Times.’ ‘Favorite Artists poll’. Summer. 1998.

Spin Off. Article: ‘In Our Own Hands’. Spring. 1994.

Monograph. ‘Spinning With a Navajo Spindle’. For ‘Convergence’. Washington, D.C. 1992.


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