Wini McQueen, Full Resume
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Canopy Project, Exhibit and Installation, Macon Mall, Macon, GA
2022, Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, GA, Bright City
2022, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 2022
2020, The Covering- A Retrospective, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA
2015 Wini McQueen: If Walls Could Talk (design for altered rotunda space ); 60 story panel installation for Tubman Museum, Macon, GA.
2009 Wini Akissi McQueen: Ties that Bind: A TransAtlantic Journey, The Georgia College and State University, Millegeville, GA
2001-2005Wini McQueen: If Walls Could Talk: the History of the Dream Project, Tubman African American Museum, Macon, GA.
2008 Break,Pi Art Gallery, Kansas City, Kansas. Co-curator/exhibitor
2002 Southeastern Craft Innovators, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
2000 Recollections, Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
1999 N’saasaa/Piecework ( West African pieced, narrative textiles) , co-curator, Tifton (GA) Art Museum and other places
1999 Comments on the American Twentieth Century, Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
1999 Make Do: African American Crafts in Central Georgia, curator, Museum of Arts and Sciences.
1998 Heart and Hand : Collecting Southern Decorative Arts, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke.
1997 Contemporary Georgia Fiber: Five Perspectives, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens.
1995 Women’s Work, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA
1993 Great American Quilt Show, Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY
1992 Tribute to the Tafts, The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH
1992 Quilt Festival Toyko ’92, Tokyo, Japan
1993 Quilt Festival Osaka ’93, Osaka, Japan
1989 Stitching Memories: African Story Quilts, Williams College Art Museum
1985 Wini’s Wear; Winnie’s Ware, Tennessee, State University, 1996 ,
ARTICLES/FEATURES/REVIEWS
Traci Burns “New Passage”, Macon Magazine,April/May 2020.
Obie Brown, “That’s How We Survived”, Historic Macon Newsletter , October-November 2022
Christine Tibbetts, “Macon’s Tubman Museum”, Southwest Georgia Living Magazine, January-February, 2016
KQED, radio Davis, CA, April 2016
Pamela Blume Leonard, Review of “Contemporary Georgia Fiber: Five Perspectives”, Atlanta Journal/Constitution, February 25, 1994
Dan Maley, “Artist Wini McQueen Pieces Together Exhibit” Macon Telegraph, April 12, 1996.
Catherine Fox, Review of “Non-Functional Crafts”, Atlanta Journal / Constitution,
February 25, 1994.
Blyth McKay, “Wini McQueen Quilts at the Taft Museum”, Macon Magazine, July/August 1992,
Eva Grudin, “The Exquisite Diversity of African-American Quilts”, Fiberarts November/December 1989.
Jeffrey Day, “Family Tree Centerpiece of her Quilting Display”, Macon Telegraph and News, January 15, 1988
Jane Jullianelli, “Queen of Crafts”, Women’s Wear Daily, December 7, 1979.
COMMISSIONS
2022,The Hopewell Project, Somebody’s Calling My Name (Quilt) .
2000-2004, If Walls Could Talk ( Story Fabrics from the African Diaspora), Tubman African American Museum.
1996, Quilt Motifs for Stainless Steel Sunshade Structure, Corporation for Olympic Development in Atlanta, Atlanta, GA.
1993 Story Quilt, She, (Portrait of Middle Georgia Women), Harriet Tubman Museum, Macon, GA
1989 Story Quilts (Robert Duncanson Series), Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH.
EDUCATION
Kansas City Art Institute, Surface Design Association sponsored textile design classes, 2007
1993 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Summer
1983 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Main, African Textile Dyeing and Photography, second summer session, 1974.
Southern Education Foundation, Intern, Atlanta, Georgia, 1973-74
Howard University, Washington, D.C. B.A. English, 1968,
AWARDS AND HONORS
Macon, GA Chapter of the Links, 2019 Service Award, October 5, 2019
Macon Arts Alliance, Rosalyn Elkan Lifetime Achievement Award, October 2019
2012-2013 Community support to document textiles and artisans(with emphasis on women’s textile work) in selected
Communities in Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa.
2000 Thanks Be to Grandmother Winifred Foundation, Research Travel grant to document Ivorian and Ghanaian Women’s Work in the Pieced Textile Tradition
1997 Georgia Women in the Visual Arts Awards, Georgia Department of Natural Resources/Georgia Commission on Women, Atlanta, Georgia
1990 Best in Show, Mid Summer Visual Arts Competition, MaconTelegraph, Macon, GA
1992 & 1997 Georgia Council for the Arts, Artist-Initiated Grant.
SELECTED LECTURES/RESIDENCIES/DEMONSTRATIONS
2022, University of Alabama, Every Stitch a Story: A Symposium on Quilts of Alabama
2017, Tubman African-American Museum Artist in Residence
2013- Lecture, “ How Long Did It Take to Make This?”, Sidney’s Salon, Historic Macon, Novenber 2013
2002-2012,Teacher, High Street Unitarian Sponsored Art Classes for Matilda Hartley Elementary Students
- Education Outreach Program Design (and videotape) for Cincinnati 7th graders, Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH and National Endowment for the Arts
1996 Lecture, Tennessee State University Cultural Affairs and Lecture Series, Nashville, TN
1979-2007 Residencies, The Institut National Superieur des Arts et de l’Action Culturelle, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa; Arts Experiment Station, Tifton, GA;Eastman, Forsyth, Thomasville, Macon, Fort Benning, Jackson and Atlanta, GA; Williamstown, MA.
1993 Lecture, Ohio Art Education Association 1995 Convention, Cincinnati, OH.
1979 Lecture, First National Afro-American Crafts Conference, Shelby State Community College, Memphis TN
1976 Technique Demonstrations, Smithsonian Institute, Festival of American Folk Life (African Diaspora), Washington, D.C. 1976