Denise started art quilting in the early 1990’s, and now focuses on her art full-time. An internationally recognized fiber artist and teacher, her work has been juried or invited into multiple national and international shows and exhibitions, and major publications, including:
Juried / Major Invitational Exhibitions:
2019 San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles (San Jose, California), Featured Artist
2018 Excellence in Fibers IV (an annual juried online and print gallery published by Fiber Art Now, USA)
2018 Le Carrefour European du Patchwork (Sainte Marie Aux Mines, France), Seminar Post Carrefour Exhibition (Denise and her Students)
2018 36th Annual New Legacies: Contemporary Art Quilts Exhibition (Colorado, USA)
2018 Quiltfestival Noord Groningen (Rottum, The Netherlands), Featured Artist
2018 Patchwork Gilde Deutschland (Celle, Germany), Featured Artist
2018 International Quilt Festival of Luxembourg (Wilwerwiltz, Luxembourg), Featured Artist
2017 "Manualmente" Exhibition (Turin, Italy), Featured Artist
2017 Quilt Festival in Korea (Seoul, South Korea), Featured Artist
2016 China International Patchwork Invitational Arts Show (Beijing, China), Featured Artist
2016 Le Carrefour European du Patchwork (Sainte Marie Aux Mines, France), Featured Artist
2014 Fiber and Arts Festival, Quilt and Textile Museum (La Conner, Washington, USA)
2012 Interquilt (Girona, Spain), Featured Artist
2010 Int’l TECHstyle Art Biennial, Museum of Quilts and Textiles (San Jose, California, USA)
2010 Images, Lowell Quilt Festival (Lowell, Massachusetts, USA)
2009 Celtic Spirit Worldwide Art Show (San Marcos, Texas, USA), Featured Artist
2008 Speaking with my Ancestors Art Show, Woman Made Gallery (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
2007 Quilt National (Athens, Ohio, USA)
Winner of both the People's Choice Award and the McCarthy Memorial Award for Craftsmanship
2007 Sacred Threads (Reynoldsburg, Ohio, USA)
2006 International Quilt Society (Houston, Texas, USA)
2006 AQS – American Quilt Show (Paducah, Kentucky, USA)
2005 Sacred Threads (Reynoldsburg, Ohio, USA)
2004 Expressions of the Sacred, Iliff School of Theology (Denver, Colorado, USA)
2003 Landscape Unlimited: Interpretations of Nature (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
2003 Sacred Threads (Reynoldsburg, Ohio, USA)
2002 Art Quilts at the Whistler, Whistler House Museum of Art (Lowell, Massachusetts, USA)
2002 Artist as Quiltmaker (Oberlin, Ohio, USA)
2001 Sacred Threads (Reynoldsburg, Ohio, USA)
Media / Publications / Included In:
2019 Art Quilting Studio Magazine (USA), Summer 2019, Featured Artist – "Stone Stairwell Stories"
2018 Fiber Art Now (USA), Winter 2018, Excellence in Fibers IV, Juried Artist
2017 Machine Quilting Unlimited (USA), Sept/October 2017, "Stitching Rocks"
2017 Art Quilt Collector (USA – a SAQA quarterly publication – now Art Quilt Quarterly), January 2017, Featured Artist
2017 Quilt Italia National Quilt Guild Magazine (Italy), January 2017, Featured Artist
2016 Corea Quilt Associates (South Korea) National Newsletter, November 2016, Featured Artist
2016 Burda Patchwork and Quilting Magazine (both France and Germany), November 2016, Featured Artist
2016 Magic Patch Magazine (France), Sept-October 2016, Featured Artist
2016 Art Quilting Studio Magazine (USA), Summer 2016, Featured Artist
2014 Lovely Landscape Quilts, Cathy Geier
2014 Quilt National Artist Profile, Quilt National Artists
2012 SAQA, May 2012, Featured Artist
2011 Adventures in Design, Joen Wolfrom
2010 1000 Artisan Textiles (a juried competition), S. Salamony & G.M. Brown
2009 Machine Quilting Unlimited, June 2009, Featured Artist
2009 Fiberarts Magazine, April 2009, Featured Artist
2009 Love of Quilting Magazine, Jan/February 2009, “Gateways to Imagination”
2007 The Best of Contemporary Quilts, Quilt National 2007
2007 The Quilt Show.com (on-line video, #106), Featured Artist
2006 American Art Collector, juried competition, Alcove Books, Volume 2 Book 2
2005 Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter, Katie Pasquini Masopust
2004 American Art Collector, juried competition, Alcove Books, Volume 1 Book 2