Rebecca Cross ⬥Oberlin OH 44074 USA
Education
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. MFA, Crafts. 2008; M.Ed. 1987
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. B.A. English; Oberlin Conservatory of Music, B.M. Voice. 1984
Employment
Visiting Artist, Cleveland School for the Arts, Fall 2021
Adjunct Professor, Surface Design; Professional Practices, (Writing Intensive) School of Art, Kent State University, Kent, OH 2008- 2019.
English Composition, KSU Department of Rhetoric and Composition, Fall 2004 to 2008.
Visiting Fellow at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Writing and Art Criticism, 2009.
Workshop Instructor at The Morgan Paper Conservatory, Cleveland, OH, and Praxis Fiber Workshop, Cleveland, OH. 2012- present.
Residencies
Artist in Residence. Smedbyn. Husqvarna Municipality, Sweden, March 2016.
Zygote Press, Cleveland, Ohio. November artist residency; group invitational exhibit. 2011.
Artist in Residence. Morgan Paper Conservatory, Cleveland, OH. June, 2011.
Artist in Residence, Sculpture. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, August 2010.
Cityfolk Festival, Dayton, Ohio. July 2009.
Artist in Residence, Budapest, Hungary. Sponsored by the Hungarian Multicultural Center, September - October 2009.
Curating
Juror, BayArts Annual Juried Exhibition. Bay Village, Ohio, March 2021.
Co-juror with Janice Driesbach, the Morgan Paper Conservatory Annual Juried Exhibition. Cleveland, Ohio. March 2017.
Co-jurying Form Not Function National Quilt Exhibition at the Carnegie Center for Art in New Albany, Indiana, 2014.
Exhibitions, Collaborations
Ephemera, BayArts, Bay Village, OH, October 2020
After the Pedestal, The Sculpture Center Cleveland, July 2020.
Gyre, Installation piece awarded the Massillon Art Museum’s Exhibition Prize for the inaugural juried CAN Triennial, Cleveland, OH, Summer 2019.
Intrinsic Momentum. 3-woman exhibition with Isabel Farnsworth and Hilder Agiersdottir Jonsson. American Greetings Corporation Gallery W, Cleveland, Ohio 2019.
Silk and Steel, Solo Exhibition, Hedge Gallery, Cleveland, OH. January, 2018.
Let’s Talk About Love, an International Traveling Library of Art Books; group invitational exhibit. Zygote Press, Cleveland, Ohio. 2017.
Palettes for the Senses. Hedge Gallery, Cleveland OH. February-March 2017.
Shadow Memory/ Skuggminne. Solo Exhibition. Konstnärhuset Svavel Gallery, Jonkoping, Sweden, March, 2016.
Costume design for Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera, Groundworks Dance Theater, David Shimotakahara, Artistic Director. Akron, Ohio March 2016.
Art and the Mechanisms of Healing, the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH. 2015-16. Invitational group exhibition curated by Christina Neilson and Frances Gage.
Threaded. Three-woman exhibition with Jessica Pinsky and Libby Chaney, Hedge Gallery, Cleveland, OH. February 2016.
Untied in 19 Pieces. Solo Exhibition, Praxis Fiber Workshop Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 2015.
Roulette. 509 Atlantic Ave, New York, NY, October 30, 2013. Performances by Double Edge Dance and boomerang, including Laden and Retracing, Choreography by Kora Radella and Music by Ross Feller; textiles by Rebecca Cross.
Collaboration with Kora Radella, Danceworks, Cleveland Public Theater, Cleveland, Ohio. May 2011.
Like a River, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH. June 5 - July 26, 2013. Part of the 2013 W2S Performance Series. In collaboration with composer Randolph Coleman and dancers Kora Radella and Jacqui Pitts.
Absence/ Presence. Solo Exhibition at the Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory, Cleveland, Ohio. May 29 - July 7, 2012
R.S.V.P.: a conversation. With Clare Murray Adams. Summit Artspace, Akron, Ohio. October 2011.
Superlatives. Zanesville Museum of Art, Zanesville, Ohio, with Deborah Anderson, Nancy Crow, Sue Cavanaugh, June O'Neil, and Sandra Ciolino. May 2011.
Liaisons. With painter Annette Poitau, FAVA Gallery, Oberlin, Ohio. May 2011; remounted at The Mansfield Art Center, Spring 2015.
Mood Indigo at the Kent State University Fashion Museum in Kent, Ohio, 2010
Artist As Quiltmaker. FAVA Gallery, Oberlin, Ohio, 2009. 2006, 2000.
Solo Exhibition. Transformations. Malone University, Canton, Ohio. August 2009.
Quilt National '09. The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, Ohio, 2009.
Focus Fiber, sponsored by the Textile Arts Alliance, Cleveland, Ohio , 2009, 2006, 2004.
Design Shibori. Juried Student Exhibition sponsored by the World Shibori Network, at the International Shibori Symposium, Paris, France. Hosted by École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. ENSAD Exhibition Hall, Paris, 27 Oct - 8 Nov 2008; Knitting & Stitching Show, Harrogate, UK, Nov 20-23; 400th Anniversary of Arimatsu village, Nagoya, Japan, December 2008.
Publications
Regular contributor to CAN (Cleveland Arts Network) Journal as facilitator of the feature, artist/artist, a reciprocal interview project of artists in conversation with each other.
Surface Design Association Magazine, Spring 2017. Review of Rowland Ricketts and Janice Lessman-Moss’s Fall 2016 Exhibition Threads: New Work at Kent State University.
Collier, Ann Futterman, Using Textile Arts and Handcrafts in Therapy With Women: Weaving Lives Back Together (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, November 15, 2011).
1000 Artisan Textiles (2010 Rockport Publishers/Quarry Books, Beverly, MA)
Awards
Exhibition Prize at Cleveland Art Network’s CAN Triennial Juried Exhibition, 2018.
Textile Society of America New Student/ Professional Award, 2010.
NICHE Award. Finalist, in both Surface Design and Pieced/Quilted categories. Baltimore, MD, 2006.
Juror's Choice Award of Excellence, Artist As Quiltmaker XIV at FAVA Oberlin, Ohio, 2010. Juror, Carolyn Mazloomi.
The Dunay Prize for Fashion Accessories: Finalist, 2006. Kent, Ohio.
Canton Museum of Art All-Ohio 1990 Show. Winner, Award for Excellence in Craft.