Contemporary Handwoven Tapestry
My cartoon/design for my upcoming tapestry Never More has been awarded a Certificate of Excellence from the Circle Foundation of the Arts in Lyon, France. I submitted the cartoon to their Themed Contest: Art in the time of the Coronavirus & Social Distancing exhibit. Although … Read more
Falling down a rabbit hole can be a good thing when it comes to designing. I began my latest design with the desire to weave details of horses. My false starts took me from compartmentalized details, to a more integrated collection of imagery unified by … Read more
Pas de Deux has been awarded the Heallreaf Prize! Many thanks to the jurors of Heallreaf. Along with the £500 prize goes the beautiful “Heallreaf Bobbin” made from 2000 year old bog oak and made by local craftsman Andrew Dickinson. Heallreaf is a biennial exhibition for … Read more
“Revolution’ by Barbara Burns has won the award for classical, traditional tapestry in the 5th triennial of Tapestry Novi Sad 2014 in Serbia. The triennial of tapestry in the organization of the Institution for Tapestry Making “Atelier 61″ was founded in 2001 with the goal to promote … Read more
Preserving Past Fabrics for the Future from the Bergen County Historic Preservation Advisory Board 2009. This award was given for all the conservation and preservation work I performed at the Pascack Historical Society in Park Ridge, NJ as a member. My work there includes creating and … Read more
FIRST PLACE decorative, non-functional category, Blue Ridge Hand Weaving Show, Supported by the Western North Carolina Fibers/Handweavers Guild Inc. Asheville, NC, 2008 NICHE AWARDS finalist juried 2008 Both awards were given to Woman With Red Turban Artist’s collection
Handweaver’s Guild of America Award for Excellence in Weaving, juried, 2003 This is a transparency weaving, a Finnish technique known as Kuulto kudo. I created several of these weavings before I started traditional tapestry weaving.
Best in show at Creative Strands, juried, 2003 This is a transparency weaving, a Finnish technique known as Kuulto kudo. I created several of these weavings before I started traditional tapestry weaving.