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Yantra VI, 1985, 60" x 60", woven, shaped, pieced.

Talk Story, 2010, detail, ink, pen, tapa.

Fig Leaf, 2007, 10x8x3", woven thread, stiffened.

Scottish Game Feather, 4 1996, 10x8"

 

RESUME SELECTIONS

COLLECTIONS

Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museums, Washington, DC.
Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA.
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI.
Hawai’i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, HI.
M.H. deYoung Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA.
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA.
The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM.
Hastings School of Law, San Francisco, CA.
Aichi Shibori Archive, Nagoya, Japan.
City of Loveland Offices, Loveland, CO.
Niwako Kimono Company, Nagoya, Japan.
Pfizer Inc., New York, NY.
Private collections throughout the world.

A
WARDS
Jurors Awards, Hawaii Craftsmen ASJE, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017 and 2015.
Paul Loo Memorial Award, Hawaii Craftsmen ASJE, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2014.
American Bamboo Societies Award, 2013.
Hawai’i State Foundation for Culture and the Arts, 2011.
California Arts Council Fellowship in Visual Arts, 1990.
Fashion Foundation Award, Japan, 1989.
National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, 1984.
NEA/Fiberworks Exhibits/Projects Grant, 1983.
U.C. Berkeley Professional Studies Program in India Fellowship, 1980-81.

 
EXHIBITIONS
2022  New Directions, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose CA, USA.
2017  Abstractions, Honolulu Museum of Art First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu HI.
2017  Hawaii Craftsmen 50th Annual Juried Statewide Exhibition, Honolulu, HI.
2017  Abstracts Only! Wailoa Art and Cultural Center, Hilo, HI.
2016  Fiber Hawaii, Honolulu Museum of Art School Gallery, Honolulu, HI.
2016  Abstracts Only! Wailoa Arts & Cultural Center, Hilo, HI.
2015  Poetry Scores Hawaii: Look Like What It Is, Invitational, University of Hilo, Hilo HI.
2014   36 Views of Leahi, Arts at MARKS Garage, Honolulu, HI.
2012   Fiber Philadelphia, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA.
2011   GREEN: the Color and the Cause, Textile Museum, Washington, DC.
2010   Earth Tones, Pacific Grove Art Center,  Pacific Grove, CA.
2009   Towards the Divine, Maui Hands Gallery, Paia, HI
2008   6th International Fiber Biennial Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
2007  Intimate Apparel, Pi Gallery Kansas City MO, toured US to 2009.
2006  Emily DuBois: Fiber Art, Artsplace, Ponca City, OK.
2005  Beauty, Prestige and Power, deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA, to 2006.
2005  High Fiber, from permanent collection, Renwick Gallery, SAAM, Washington, DC.
2005  Fibre: a New World View, Irish Craft Council, Kilkenny, Ireland.
2004   Emily DuBois: The Richness of Nature, TNCA Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C.
2003   Future Heirlooms, Mingei Museum, works from permanent collection, San Diego, CA.
2002   Shibori Now, Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama, Japan.
2001   E-textiles, Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, toured Canada and Australia to 2002.
2001   Fiber Art, Art in Embassies Program, Consulate, Ankara, Turkey.
2001   Annual International Exchange Exhibition, Daegu Culture and Art Center, Daegu, Korea.
2000   7th Annual Shoebox Sculpture, UH Manoa Art Gallery, toured US and Taiwan.
1997   Orimono: Emily DuBois, Yoko Arai, ArtSpace, Tokyo, Japan.
1996   Textiles and New Technology, London Crafts Council, toured Europe.
1995   Possibilities of Weaving, Alaska Pacific University and Fairbanks Arts Council, AK.
1994   Biennial Internationale de la Tapestry, Museum de Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1992   7th International Triennale of Tapestry, Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland.
1992   Contemporary Shibori Citizens Gallery, Nagoya, Japan.
1991   Woven Structures in the Computer Age, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, toured US.
1990   Arte Textil Fibers, Florida State University, Tallahassee, toured Colombia, SA.
1989   International Textile Design, Fashion Foundation, Tokyo, Japan.


PUBLICATIONS
Fiber Arts Now, Vol 7 Issue 2 Winter, fiberartnow.net, 2017.
Made in Code: Digital Visions, Clarke and Harris, Thames & Hudson, 2012.
Emily DuBois, Artists Magazine, Vol. 3, Taipei, Taiwan, 2004.    
Emily DuBois: Portfolio Collection, Telos Art Publishing, UK, 2003.
Memory on Cloth, Yoshiko Wada, Kodansha, 2002.
Emily DuBois: The Cosmogenic Weave, Surface Design Journal, April Kingsley, Fall, 1998.
Nouvel Objet III, Design House, Seoul, Korea, 1997.
Bridging Worlds, School of Materials Technology, PCTS, Philadelphia, PA, 1996.
Textiles & New Technology: 2010, O'Mahony & Braddock Eds., London Crafts Council, 1994.
American Fiber Now, Artists Magazine, Teresa Huang, Taipei, Taiwan, August, 1993.
Transforming Textiles, Fiberarts,  Donna Larsen Endlich & Sylvia Seventy, Jan/Feb, 1992.
Shibori II, Unsodo Co., Ltd., Japan, front and back book covers and color plate 3, 1990.
Culture and Power in Banaras, Freitag, Sandria B., editor Berkeley: Univ of Calif Press,1989
Ars Textrina, Banaras Brocade Weaving, Vol 3, Winnnipeg, Canada, 1986.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Workshops, US, Canada, Europe, Asia, 1983 - 2007.
Speaker, TAFTA, Volcanoes National Park, HI, 2006.
Keynote Speaker, Sustainable Culture conference, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C., 2005.
Speaker, Friends of Fiber Arts, SOFA, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL, 2000 and 2005.
Visiting Artist, Taiwan National University of Applied Arts, Tainan, 2004.
Faculty, Textile Department, California College of Arts, Oakland, CA, 1983-2001.
Faculty, Department of Environmental Design, UC Davis, CA 1995-2000.
Visiting Artist, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, 1994-1995.
Faculty, Fort Mason Art Center/City College, San Francisco CA 1988-1994.
Visiting Artist, Summer Session, Chicago Art Institute, 1992.
Speaker and Workshop, International Shibori Symposium, Nagoya, Japan, 1992.
 
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