Connie Lehman
CONNIE LEHMAN'S RESUME
Embroiderer, Sculptor, Printmaker, Illustrator, Teacher, Curator
Elizabeth, Colorado
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
The Dairy Barn, Athens, Ohio – Bead International 2008, travels 20o8-10
Pismo, Denver, CO – It’s All About Beads III, May 2-31, 2008
Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO – Mixed, 6 Artists using Mixed Media July-August, 2007
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA – Threads on the Edge 2002-03
Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH – Bead International 2000, 2002, 2008
Hibberd/McGrath Gallery, Breckenridge, CO – Textiles in the Garden 2007
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. – Threadworks toured U.S. and Africa 1988-92
Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO, Museum of Arts and Design, NY,NY Beadwork III: The Beaded Cloth toured 2002-04
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO – the Art of Craft 1985,86,87
Center for the Visual Arts, Metro State College, Denver, CO – Threads of Memory: Contemporary Narrative Textiles 2002
PUBLICATIONS
500 Beaded Objects - Lark Books
Beaded Embellishments – Interweave Press
Fiberarts Design Books I thru VI – Lark Books
The Best in Contemporary Beadwork 2000, 2002, 2008
Bead International juror 2008
Beadwork Magazine –“Connie Lehman, Bead Diva” may/june 2000
Surface Design Journal – Connie Lehman’s Heart Work summer 2001
American Craft Magazine – Portfolio 1983
COLLECTIONS
Qwest – Denver, CO
Kaiser Permanente – Denver, CO
Childrens’ Hospital – Denver, CO
Art in Public Places – Denver, CO
ATT – Kansas City, MO
Daphne Farago - Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
AWARDS AND GRANTS
1978 artist in residence, aurora middle school Colorado Council on the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts, one semester
1983 artist in residence, Elizabeth Elementary/Middle School Colorado Council on the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts, one semester
1987 Art of crafts, Denver Art Museum – Herman Miller award
1988 artist in residence, zsk textile - Krefeld, Germany
2008 artist in residence, Ucross Foundation Ucross, Wyoming March
2008 artist collaboration with Peter Gil-Sheridan, writing/designing a play based on the Tarot, Silverton, Colorado – 3 weeks
CURATE, JURY, TEACH
2001 Center for the Visual Arts, Metro State College – Threads of Memory
2000 Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, CO – XXV: 25 years of Colorado Master Crafts, co-curator with B. Smith and K. Andrews
2004 HGA Convergence, Denver, CO – taught beautie class
2002, 2004 Front Range Quilters, Denver, CO. juror
