Crossing Maintaining

Bethanne Knudson
Art creates its own reality. Few things in life
are as satisfying as time spent in that reality.
EDUCATION 1990 MFA, Textiles, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS l 1987 BFA, Fiber, Kansas City
Art Institute, Kansas City, MO PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2005 Guest Speaker, Chattahoochee
Handweavers Guild 50th Anniversary Celebration, Atlanta, GA l 2004 Guest Lecturer, Hallmark
Symposium, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS l 2003 Visiting Professor, Fiber Department, Kansas
City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO l 2002 Guest Lecture & Panel Participant, Eastern Michigan
University, Ypsilanti, MI l 2002 Guest Lecture & Workshop, Kent State University, Kent, OH l 2002
Guest Lecturer, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS l 2000 Workshop, California College of Arts
& Crafts, Oakland, CA l 2000 Lecture & Workshop, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI l
Lecture & Workshop l 2000 Surface Design Conference, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
l 2000 Workshop, Surface Design Post-Conference, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
EXHIBITIONS 2005 Recursions, Material Expression of Zeros and Ones, invitational, Museum of
Design, Atlanta, GA, traveling through 2008 l 2004 The Architecture of Cloth: Jacquard Woven Work
by Pauline Verbeek-Cowart and Bethanne Knudson, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design,
Lakewood, CO l 2002 Digital Weaving and the Power Loom, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti,
MI l Digital Weaving: A Collaborative Project, Fine Art Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS l
Textiles: Two Thousand Two, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI PUBLICATIONS 2003 Bethanne
Knudson, “ITMA 2003—Birmingham, UK: An Overview,” The Jacquard List, Online Newsletter and
Publication of The Complex Weavers Guild (November 2003) l 2002 Bethanne Knudson, “Flexibility
in CAD Systems Key to Innovation & Creativity,” Fabric and Furnishings International, Autumn 2002
BETHANNE KNUDSON PRESS “Reviews: Bethanne Knudson and Pauline Verbeek-Cowart,” by
Alyson B. Stanfield, American Craft, Feb./Mar. 2005 l “Jacquard Study,” Carol Westfall, Shuttle Spindle
& Dyepot, Summer 2003 l “Jacquard Boot Camp,” Janice Lessman-Moss, Fiberarts, Summer 2002 l
“A New Jacquard Center in North America,” Cynthia Schira, ETN-Texti7eForuni, 2001
Bethanne Knudson is president of The Jacquard Center Inc. in Hendersonville, NC.
Bethanne Knudson
Postcards, 2005
Jacquard-woven cotton
24 Crossing Boundaries
59"w x 15.5"h