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 See Deborah's Artwork:

EXHIBITIONS CURATED BY THE ARTIST:

Into the 3rd Dimension (Solo), Alpert Jewish Community Center, Long Beach, CA 2023

Incarceration (Solo), Alpert Jewish Community Center, Long Beach, CA 2020

Bent Needle Collective, Out of Darkness, Pacific NW Quilt and Fiber Art Museum, WA 2019

Chroma (Solo), permanent installation School on Wheels HQ, Los Angeles, CA 2018

Abstraction (Solo), Mission Viejo Civic Center, Mission Viejo, CA, 2018

Elemental (Solo), Branch Gallery, Inglewood, CA 2017

From the Streets to the Skies (Quilts on the Wall), Branch Gallery, Inglewood, CA 2017

Deborah Weir (Solo), Hagafen Winery, Napa, CA 2016-17

Deborah Weir (Solo), Alpert Jewish Community Center, Long Beach, CA 2016

Confluence, Palos Verdes Art Center, CA, 2013; International Textile Art, Paterson, NJ 2013; Temporary Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA 2014; Savoir Faire, Redondo Beach, CA 2015; New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA, 2016

Fiber Forward, PV Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA 2013

Quilts on the Wall at the Hangar, Santa Monica, CA 2012

Deborah Weir (Solo), Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2011

Three Perspectives, Performing Arts Center, Redondo Beach, CA, 2010

Deborah Weir: Textiles, (Solo), C1D Gallery, Long Beach, CA, 2008 

Deborah Weir: A Career (Solo), STRS Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2007

SELECTED JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2024   

            Fibrous, d’Art Gallery, Norfolk, VA

            Excellence in Fiber (FAN), Texas Quilt Museum

            Roots, PHES Gallery (Invitational), Carlsbad, CA

            Unfolding, ACN, Sierra Arts, NV

2023

            CA 101, Redondo Beach, CA   Receding Figures

            Alcatraz #5   SAQA online Incarceration exhibit

            Industry/Luxury, Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts, Bethlehem, PA

            Touch the Sky, Carlsbad, CA (touring)

            PHES Gallery (Invitational), Carlsbad, CA

            12 Cycles Contra Costa College, San Pablo, CA

2022

             CA 101, Redondo Beach, CA

             Layers, Art Cloth Network touring through 2025

             Excellence in Quilts 1st prize Fiber Art Now (touring through 2023)

             Visions 2022 San Diego, CA

             Australia Wide 8  touring through 2024

             Forever Changed, Blue Line Gallery N. CA SAQA regional, Sacramento,

             Australia Wide 8 (OzQuilt Network) touring through 2024

             Threads of Inspiration (SAQA regional) 

             Advocacy Project Collaboration with Bangladeshi embroiderers

             Visions 2022, Visions Museum of Textile Art, San Diego, CA

             Forever Changed (SAQA Regional)

             Open Space (ACN exhibit) Austin Airport, TX

2021

             Textile Arts LA online exhibit https://www.instagram.com/p/CMHuBiuFTNX

             Visions Members online   https://visionsartmuseum.org/member-challenge-exhibition/

             The Language of Fiber Art, Fiber Artists of San Antonio, TX

              Sister Artists Collaboration with Ghanaian embroiderers, Textile Museum, Washington  DC

2020

         Southern California Contemporary Quilts, Oceanside, CA

         Quilt Visions 2020

         No Limits, SAQA's first online gallery

         Sister Artists Collaboration with Mali embroiderers, Textile Museum, Washington DC

         Keeping the Faith, Paso Robles, CA

         Full Circle, Art Cloth Network through 2021

2019

        Shifting Tides: Convergence in Cloth, SAQA, touring all 7 Pacific-adjacent states

        South African Annual Quilt Festival, Fourways, Santon, South Africa

        Elements, Marin Artists Gallery, San Rafael, CA

        Australia Wide Six, touring Australia

        The Space Between, Art Cloth Network through 2021

2018

        Smolder, Material View, Miami International Airport, Miami, FL

2017

        ArtQuilt Australia 2017, Tasmania, AU         

        Strings Attached, Coastline College, Newport Beach, CA

        Evolutions, Rocky Mt. Quilt Museum, Golden, CO

        Unbound, Art Cloth Network through 2020

2016

        Gyre#11, Water is Life, UNHQ Geneva, Kean U. Human Rights Gallery, through-2019

2015

        International FiberArts VII, Sebastopol, CA, through 2016

        National Fiber Directions, Wichita, KS, 2015, 2013, 2009

        Climate Crisis: Solutions, Water Street Studios, Batavia, Il

        Cosmos, Imagining the Universe, AnnMarie Arts Center, Dowell, MD

        Textiel Festival, Leiden, The Netherlands

2014

        Australia Wide 4, touring throughout Australia, through 2016                                                                                                        

        Opening Exhibit, San Fernando Valley Arts Alliance

        Art Quilts Celebrating 25 Years QSDS, Ross Art Museum, Columbus, OH

        Infinity Art Gallery Fiber Arts (online)

        Material View, Art Cloth Network through 2017

2013

        Dreams from the Old Testament, Tychman Shapiro Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

        Confluence, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA; Savoir Faire, Redondo Beach, CA; TempContemporary Gallery,                               Sacramento, CA; International Textile Art, Paterson, NJ; Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos  Verdes, CA through 2016  

        ArtRageous Quilts, Chandler Center for Arts, Chandler, AZ, and 2012

        Art Quilt Australia, People, Place, Nation, Canberra, Australia through 2016               

        Interpretations, Art Cloth Network, toured US through 2016

        Page Turner, SomeThings Looming Gallery, Reading, PA

2012

        Quilt Festival, PNW Quilt and Textile Museum, La Conner, WA

        American Archeological Society Meeting, San Diego, CA

        Interpretations, Art Cloth Network through 2015

2011

        SAQA Regional, Front Porch Gallery, Carlsbad, CA

        Beyond the Line, Art Cloth Network through 2014

2010

        Innovations in Fiber Art V, Merit Award: Innovations, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA

        Korean/American Joomchi, Cheongju Craft Museum, South Korea through 2011

        Art of the Stitch, Visions Gallery, San Diego, CA

        Frontiers Where Art Meets Science, SAQA US, England, France through 2011

        Uncommon Threads, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA through 2012

2009

        Contemporary Quilts, The Muckenthaler, Fullerton, CA

        Eye of the Quilter, International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX

        Art Quilts Lowell, Lowell, MA

        Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, England

        Nothing New, Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN

        National Fiber Directions, Wichita, KS, 2009. 2013, 2015

        Fibrations, SAQA, toured US through 2010

        A Sense of Humor, “That’s Amore” featured in event catalog, SAQA, toured US through 2010

        All Media show at the Palos Verdes Art Center, invited docent, Palo Verdes, CA 

2008

        Shoreline Stitchers Showcase, “Best in Contemporary Embroidery” Palos Verdes, CA, 2008 

        National Small Art Quilt Works, Main Street Gallery, Groton, NY, 2008, 2009, 2010

         West Coast Wonders (International Quilt Festival, Inc.), through 2009

         A Sense of Time (Studio Art Quilt Associates), through 2009

        Countdown to Peace, Ayden, NC, 2008– End of War

        A Sense of Time, SAQA, toured US through 2010

        National Small Art Quilts, Main St. Gallery, Groton, NY, 2008, 2009, 2010

2007 (and earlier)

        Kaiser Hospital, Panorama City, CA (permanent collection), 2007

        Handweavers’ Guild of America’s Convergence, 1997, 2000, 2007, 2008

        PIQF, Santa Clara, CA, 1997, 2003, 2009, 2011, 2015 

        Quilts on the Wall touring exhibits, 2003-2019

RECOGNITION in PRINT:

           2022    FIRST PLACE PRIZE Excellent in Quilts from Fiber Art Now

            2021    Cover of the Art Cloth Network catalog for Unfolding                                                                                                                                      2021    Textile FibreForum Sept. ’21 Feature Article

            2021    Into the Third Dimension: 75 minute Zoom presentation (Quilts on the Wall; SAQA; Open Invitation)

            2021    Art Quilting Studio (Winter)  feature article        

            2019    Cover of the Art Cloth Network catalog for Unbound

            2019    Art Quilting Studio (Summer) feature article   

            2018    DownUnderTextiles (Australia) article

            2015    Consultant on The Banquet of Donny and Ari, scenes from the opera, by poet Naomi Guttman.  Brick Books Press

 

Recognition Online: (Click or copy and paste the addresses below):  

  EXHIBIT  https://www.dailybreeze.com/2022/08/25/ca-101-art-exhibit-returns-to-redondo-beach-to-showcase-work-in-unusual-spaces/

  EXHIBIT  https://visionsartmuseum.org/member-challenge-exhibition/

  EXHIBIT  https://www.instagram.com/p/CMHuBiuFTNX/

  EXHIBIT https://www.viewarts.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/2021-quilts-unlimited/quilts-unlimited-online-exhibition/
INTERVIEW https://createwhimsy.com/projects/spotlight-deborah-weir-fiber-artist/ 

ARTICLES BY DEBORAH https://www.behance.net/gallery/91341015/Articles-by-and-about-Deborah-Weir?

 AUSTRALIA EZINE FEATURE https://www.flipsnack.com/fibreartsnewsletter/fibre-arts-australia-x9qdseapma.html

 TEXTILE FIBRE FORUM https://www.artwearpublications.com.au/product/single-issue-textile-fibre-forum-magazine-143/ 

FIBRE ARTS TAKE TWO  http://exhibition.fibreartstaketwo.com/books/kyfv

WEAVING WORKSHOP    https://theweavingworkshop.com/2019/01/31/deborah-weir-awakening-the-mind/

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