Denise started art quilting in the mid 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:

2018  International Quilt Festival of Luxemburg, Featured Artist
2018  Patchwork Gilde Deutschland (Celle, Germany), Featured Artist
2018  Quiltfestival Noord Groningen (Rottum, The Netherlands), Featured Artist

2017  Manualmente 2017 (Turin, Italy), Featured Artist
2017  QFIK 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)
2012  Interquilt (Girona, Spain), Featured Artist
2010  Int’l TECHstyle Art Biennial, Museum of Quilts and Textiles (San Jose, California)
2010  Images 2010, Lowell Quilt Festival (Lowell, Massachusetts)
2009  Celtic Spirit Worldwide Art Show (San Marcos, Texas), Featured Artist
2008  Speaking with my Ancestors Art Show, Woman Made Gallery (Chicago, Illinois)
2007  Quilt National 2007 (Athens, Ohio)

      Winner of both the People's Choice Award and the McCarthy Memorial Award for Craftsmanship

2007  Sacred Threads (Reynoldsburg, Ohio)
2006  International Quilt Society (Houston, Texas)
2006  AQS – American Quilt Show (Paducah, Kentucky)
2005  Sacred Threads (Reynoldsburg, Ohio)
2004  Expressions of the Sacred, Iliff School of Theology (Denver, Colorado)
2003  Landscape Unlimited: Interpretations of Nature (Chicago, Illinois)
2003  Sacred Threads (Reynoldsburg, Ohio)
2002  Art Quilts at the Whistler, Whistler House Museum of Art (Lowell, Massachusetts)
2002  Artist as Quiltmaker (Oberlin, Ohio)
2001  Sacred Threads (Reynoldsburg, Ohio)

Media / Publications / Included In:

2017  Machine Quilting Unlimited, Sept/October 2017, "Stitching Rocks"
2017  Quilt Italia National Quilt Guild Magazine (Italy), January 2017, Featured Artist
2017  Art Quilt Collector (USA – a SAQA quarterly publication), 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