Resume
SOLO SHOWS
- 2004 "Into the Woods". Studio Montclair, Clark House, Montclair, NJ
- 2002 "New Work”, United Parcel Service Corporate Headquarters, Mahwah, NJ
- 2000 "Entangled”, Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ
- 2000 to present : Weaveco Corporate Headquarters, New York, New York
3-4 PERSON SHOWS
- 2004 "Terra Gnosis: Murmurs from the Earth”, Lautenberg JCC, Whippany, NJ
- 2003 "Elements Unearthed: Four Sculptors”, Pierro Gallery of South Orange, NJ
- 2003 "Quilts and Fiber Art”, Diversity Art Gallery, Clark, NJ
- 2002 "The Insomnia Show”, Organization of Independent Artists, Inc., New York, NY
AWARDS
- 1999 "HOT and COOL”, Best in Show, Nassau Community College, NY
- 2005 "19th Annual International Juried Show", New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit , NJ Honorable Mention
SELECTED RECENT JURIED/ INVITATIONAL SHOWS
- 2005 "Invitational: How They Felt: Contemporary Feltmaking”, Brookfield Craft Center, CT
- 2005 "Miniature Art Textiles Invitational, Island Heights, NJ
- 2005 "19th International Juried Show, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
- 2004 Textile Study Group of New York, "Fiber for the Future”, A.I.R Gallery, New York
- 2004 Fiber Art Center, 2nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Amherst, MA2004 New Jersey Arts Annual/Cache: New Horizons in Craft, The Noyes Museum of Art, Curated by Paul J. Smith, Director Emeritus of the American Craft Museum
- 2003 "Dreaming the Garden”, a two year traveling fiber show
- 2003 "Fiber 2003”, Gallery 510 Arts Guild, Decatur, IL
- 2003 "Three Twins”, Rahway Arts Guild, Rahway, NJ
- 2003 "Ashes to Ashes”, Rotunda Gallery, Montclair, NJ
- 2003 "Heartstrings”, Clifton Art Gallery, Clifton, NJ
- 2002 Interchurch Center, New York, NY
- 2002 "The Insomnia Show”, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ
- 2001 "Small Expressions 2001”, Handweavers Guild of America, Duluth, Georgia
- 2001 Cathedral Arts Festival, Jersey City, NJ
- 2000 "Springfest”, Art Center of Northern New Jersey, New Milford, NJ
- 2000 "25th Annual New Artists”, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ
- 2000 "No Word for Inhumanity”, Artist/Writer Collaboration, traveling exhibition
- 2000 "Fiber Arts”, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahway, New Jersey. Featured artist, presented slide/lecture on my creative process
- 1999 "Got the Blues”, Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ
- 1998 "Clay, Fiber, Paper, Glass, Metal and Wood Exhibition", Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, Iowa, Juried by Kenneth R. Trapp, Curator. Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian
- 1998 " Thread Connection", City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ
- 1996 New Jersey Arts Annual: Crafts, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ . April Kingsley, Curator, American Craft Museum
PUBLICATIONS
- 2005 The Craft Report Magazine, April issue feature article Profile in Success- Linda Brooks Hirschman; The Fabric of her Life
- 2004 C2M (Consulting to Management) magazine cover, November 2004. Batten Down the Hatches , a handmade felt piece.
- 2004 (201) The Best of Bergen magazine, Bergen County New Jersey. A feature article, "THe Fabric of Nature" about my fabric crations.
TEACHING
- Current – Owner and teacher at FiberArtSpace, a school teaching fiber art skills
- 2003 The Knitter’s Studio, California. Freeform felted scarve
- 1998 Sleeping Bags for the Homeless. Organized and managed event/300 people sewed sleeping bags for the homeless. YJCC of Bergen County, NJ
- 1992 – 2000 Ongoing classes to design decorate and sew panels for the NAMES Project, the AIDS Memorial Quilt. YJCC Bergen County, NJ and Home Studio.