Chris Motley has been knitting for many years, and recently took her knitting a step further, creating sculpture with yarn. Her knitted sculptures have been exhibited in galleries across America.

 

The Artist,
Chris Motley

Resume
www.motleyknits.com

Juried Shows 2010
Joan Mondale Gallery, The Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN 'Metaphoric Fibers; Untamed Knitting and Crochet'
Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY 'Fantastic Fibers 2010'
VisArts, Rockville, MD 'Wearable Art, Un-Wearable Fashion'
Greater Reston Art Center, 'gaps', juried by Vesula Sretonovic
Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA 'Faces and Figures', juried by Rene Guzman
The Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN; Holiday Show

Juried Shows 2009
Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA 'Touch' (Second Prize)
Innovations in Fiber, St. Louis, MO St. Louis Artists' Guild
'Head to Toe: From the Funky to the Sublime'
The Spare Room, San Francisco, CA. 'The Fiber Show'
Museum of Craft + Design, San Francisco, CA; 'Birds and Their Dwellings'

Education

Workshops: Kansas City Art Institute
California College of Craft and Design
Lisa Kokin

BA, History and Sociology 1970
JD, 1976

Member, Surface Design Association, American Craft Council