Exhibitions and Awards

2010

  • HMQS (Salt Lake City, Utah) -- Best of Show
  • MQX (Providence, RI) -- Judge's Choice (Linda McCuean)
  • MQX (Providence, RI) -- Publisher's Award (Meander)

2009

  • American Quilter’s Society (Paducah, Kentucky)
  • MQX (Manchester, New Hampshire) -- 3rd Place, Solo Artist
  • Road to California (Upland, CA) – 2nd Place, Innovative, Mixed Technique
  • Minnesota Quilter's, Inc. (Duluth, Minnesota) -- Faculty Choice Award (Larkin VanHorn) & Honorable Mention
  • Quilt Expo (Madison, Wisconsin)

2008

  • Artist in Residence Award, Empty Spools Seminars, Asilomar Center, CA
  • American Quilter’s Society (Paducah, Kentucky)
  • Minnesota Quilters, Inc. (Rochester, Minnesota) – 1st Place, Non-traditional Large Wall
  • International Quilt Festival (Houston, Texas)
  • Quilt Expo (Madison, Wisconsin) – 3rd Place, Wall, Pictorial
  • Pacific International Quilt Festival (Santa Clara, California)

2007

  • Road to California (Upland, California)
  • Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival (Hampton,Virginia)
  • Quilt Expo (Madison, Wisconsin) – 2nd Place
  • MQX (Manchester, New Hampshire)
  • International Quilt Festival (Houston, Texas)
  • $100,000 Quilt Challenge – Finalist, Mixed Technique Winner

2006

  • Quilting on the Waterfront – Machines in Motion – 1st Place, Art Quilt
  • MN Quilters Inc., Show – Granite City Award, Wall quilt and Faculty Choice Award
  • American Quilter’s Society (Paducah, Kentucky) – 3rd Place, Large Wall, Mixed techniques
  • World Quilt Competition (Manchester, New Hampshire)
  • International Quilt Festival (Houston, Texas)

2005

  • International Quilt Festival (Houston, Texas)
  • Treasures of Tomorrow Quilt Show (Marshfield, WI) – 1st Place, Professional category and 1st Place Wearables
  • American Quilter’s Society (Nashville, Tennessee)
  • MN Quilter’s Inc., Show – 2nd Place, Honorable Mention, and Faculty choice award
  • American Quilter’s Society (Paducah, Kentucky) – 3rd Place, Small Wall, Pictorial

2004

  • Quilting on the Waterfront (Duluth, Minnesota – Two quilts @ 2nd PlaceArt Quilt and Faculty Choice Award
  • MN Quilter’s Inc., Show

1990’s

  • “The Paintings of Anna VanDemark”, Weber Studio, Dillon, Montana
  • “On the Wall”, Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, Montana
  • “The Best and the Brightest”, Scottsdale Artist’ School, Scottsdale, Arizona

1980’s

  • “Facing Our State”, Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana “Heritage Salon”, Heritage Art Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia
  • “The Masters Heritage”, Heritage Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia
  • “Painters of Light: The Boston School”, Dallas, Texas
  • Springville Museum’s National Annual Salon, Springville, Utah
  • Classical Realism: the other Twentieth Century”.  This exhibition toured the Springeville Museum of Art (Springville, Utah), Amarillo Art Center (Amarillo, Texas), and the Maryhill Museum of Art (Maryhill, Washington)
  • John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Scholarship Award
  • Springville Museum’s National Annual April Salon, Springville, Utah

Publications

VanDemark, Anna. 2010. Bold Buttons. In: Creative Beading, Vol 5, Kalmbach Publ, Waukesha, WI. Pages 118-119.

VanDemark, Anna. 2009. Bold Buttons. Bead & Button Magazine, Issue 92, August. pages 18-19, 42-43.

Unlimited Possibilities Magazine. 2009. July "Jaw Dropper" feature. p 78.

VanDemark, Anna. 2008. It’s all about color! American Quilter Magazine, Volume XXIV:No 4, pp 18-22.

Hansen, Klaudeen and Annette Baker. 2007. Seasons of Life (Anna VanDemark). Quilt Art Engagement Calendar, American Quilter’s Society.

Arts Wisconsin. 2007. Madame Butterfly (holiday card by Anna VanDemark). Arts Wisconsin Foundation, Madison, WI.

Ruble, Lisa Swenson (ed). 2007. Hope, Innovative Mixed Technique Winner. $100,000 Quilting Challenge, Issue 3, pp 54-56.

VanDemark, Anna. 2006. Art of the Quilt: Madame Butterfly. American Quilter Magazine, Vol XXII, No 4, pages 29-31.

VanDemark, Anna. 2005. Lady of the Lake, in: Mastering the Art of McTavishing, Karen McTavish, On-Word Bound Books, Two Harbors, MN.  96 p.

VanDemark, Anna. 2004. Fantastic Fusing: An Artist’s Approach. Quilting Arts Magazine, Issue 16, pp 28-34.

Lack, Richard (ed). 1985. Realism in Revolution: The Art of the Boston School. Taylor Publishing Co. Dallas, Texas.  pp 175, 183, 214.

Education

1989:   Scottsdale Artists’ School.  Landscape course, Jim Wilcox

1987:   Scottsdale Artists’ School.  Landscape course, Wilson Hurley

1986:   Scottsdale Artists’ School.  Sculpture course, Kenneth Bunn

1982:   Tour of American art museums.  Studied the paintings of past and contemporary masters in a tour of U.S. art museums.  Made possible by a grant from the John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Foundation.

1977-1981: Atelier Lack Studio School of Fine Arts.  Atelier Lack is a four- year, private fine art college

1977:   Art History Studies, University of Minnesota

Affiliations

American Quilter's Society, Paducah, KY

International Quilt Association, Houston, TX

Wild Threads Machine Quilter’s Guild, Hayward, WI

Northern Lights Machine Quilting Guild, Duluth, MN

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