About the Artist

Brief Biography       
Hope Wilmarth created her first, original, fiber art quilt in 2009, responding to a juried gallery call. The experience led her into the world of fiber artists which continues to challenge, excite, educate and open new opportunities to explore surface design.

Hope’s professional background is that of a Registered Nurse during which time she enjoyed traditional quilting, calligraphy, knit, crochet, macrame among other media which she now draws on for her work in mixed media, contemporary and abstract art quilts.

Hope is a published fiber artist, exhibiting nationally and internationally. Her work is in private collections as well as in the permanent collection at Visions Contemporary Art Museum, San Diego, CA.

Resume
Hope Wilmarth
Houston, Texas
hlwilmarth@hotmail.com
Website: hopewilmarth.com

Selected Exhibition History
National Quilt Museum: 2021, 2020
Quilt Con: 2020
Excellence in Fibers VII: 2022
Quilt National: 2019, 2015
Visions Art Museum: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016: President's Award in Break Out Exhibit for Urban Cathedral, Urban Cathedral purchased for Visions Art Museum permanent collection
Emerald Art Center: 2019
Gallery Underground: 2019
Fiber Fusions: 2019
Artist As Quiltmaker: 2018
New Legacies: 2018
AQS: Paducah: 2017
Threads of Resistance: 2017
Texas Quilt Museum: 2021,2020, 2017
Carnegie Center of Art, Form Not Function: 2016
Sacred Threads: 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015
Schweinfurt Art Center: Quilts=Art=Quilts: 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014
SAQA Virtual Exhibition: 2021, 2020
SAQA Regional: 2021
SAQA Online Collections: 2021
SAQA Global Exhibits: 2020, 2019
IQA: A World of Beauty Judged Show: 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
IQA: Special Juried Exhibits: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
IQA: Virtual: 2020
IQA: Dinner at Eight: 2018, 2017
Spun: 2017
Road to California: 2016
Art Quilt Elements: 2018, 2016
The Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show: 2015, 2014, 2009
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft: Juried Show 2009
The Copper Shade Tree Gallery, Juried Spring Fiber Show: 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010
Texas Federation of Fiber Artists, Juried Shows: 2010: Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, 2012: Hill Country Arts Foundation

Professional Organizations
Studio Art Quilt Associates
Quilt Visions Art Museum
International Quilt Association

Publications
Quarantine Quilts, Creativity in the Midst of Chaos, Sandra Sider, Schiffer Publishing
Fiber Art Now, 2022
Deeds Not Words, Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s suffrage: Sandra Sider and Pamela Weeks, Schiffer Publishing, 2019
Curated Quilts, Black & White Issue 10
SAQA Art Quilts Unfolding, 50 Years of Innovation, 2018
SAQA Modern Inspirations Art Quilts from the 1970’s Through Today, 2018
SAQA Online Collection: 2021
Cover Art for Break Out, Quilt Visions, 2016
Art Quilts International Abstract & Geometric, 2016
Quilt National, The Best of Contemporary Quilts, 2015
1000 Quilt Inspirations, Sandra Sider, 2015
Sacred Threads, 2015
Redirecting the Ordinary, 2014
Deux, 2013
Cover Art for Language Arts Journal, Vol.90, No.5. May 2013

Education:
Quilting Adventures, 2009: Libby Lehman, 2001: Jeanette DeNicolis Meyer
James Renwick Alliance Workshop, 2012: Michael James
Haystack Mountain School of Craft, 2012: Elizabeth Busch 2014: Andrew Saftel
Nancy Crow Barn Retreat, 2013: David Hornung, 2014: Claire Benn