Susan Brittingham: Resumé

Susan Brittingham
P.O. Box 165
Riner, Virginia 24149
sbritt@swva.net

Experience

2000-present	Quilt University, Online Learning Center at www.quiltuniversity.com As a Faculty member, duties include developing detailed online classes in the areas of Fabric Landscapes, Embellishments, Upside-Down Applique and other topics, as well as responding to student comments and questions
1987-present	Free-lance instructor, lecturer and consultant for design and construction of garments and quilts to individuals, groups and organizations locally and regionally.
1994-1997	Radford University, Radford, VA, Fashion Design Department, Adjunct Instructor
1991-1996	Brittingham Studio, Roanoke and Floyd, VA, Managing Partner of small Studio/Gallery in Roanoke’s Historic Market Area, Design and Manufacture of a unique line of clothing and quilts; Design, production and marketing of limited edition hand-dyed and marbled fabrics

Selected Exhibitions

"Friends of the Fringe", exhibit at Artisans Center of Virginia, 2006

Virginia Quilt Museum, July-October 2005

"The Art of the Quilt", Biennial Invitational Quilt Show, Piedmont Arts Association, Martinsville, VA, 1998-2006

Illustrations in Cloth: Two-Woman Show, Perspectives Gallery at VA Tech, Blacksburg, VA, March 15-May 15, 2004

Viewpoints: A Quilter’s Perspective, A One Woman Show at the Wallace Gallery, Virginia
Tech, Blacksburg, VA February 2002

Featured Artist, Old Church Gallery Quilt Show 2001

Celebration of Virginia Quilters", Twentieth Century Gallery, Williamsburg, VA, September 25
-October 19, 2001

"ArtQuilts: Narrative Form", Page-Walker Arts and History Center in Cary, NC, May 4-30, 2001

Mountain Comforts Quilt Show, Ferrum, VA, multiple ribbon winner, including runner up to Best in Show, 1996 and First Place, in miniatures, 2002

Old Church Gallery Quilter’s Guild Show, Viewer’s Choice 2000, Best in Show 1992, multiple ribbon winner since 1993

"A Celebration of Virginia’s Quilters", Virginia Quilt Museum, Harrisonburg, VA, June 10-September 18, 2000

North Carolina Quilt Symposium 2000, Charlotte, NC, Best of Show Winner and Viewer’s Choice Winner; in 1999 show awarded ribbons for Most Innovative Quilt and Best Machine Quilting

"Virginia Quilters", Perspectives Gallery at VA Tech, Blacksburg, VA, January 12-31 1999

"Roanoke City Art Show", Center in the Square, Roanoke, VA, 1998

"Contemporary Quilts from the Fringe of Tradition", William King Regional Arts Center, Abingdon, VA, 1997

"Contemporary Fiber Art from the Mid-Atlantic Region", Longwood College, Farmville, VA, 1997

"Quilts: On the Fringe of Tradition", Danville Museum of Art and History, Danville, VA, Sept-Oct, 1996

"Quilts: On the Fringe of Tradition", Piedmont Arts Association, Martinsville, VA, 1995-1996

"Quilts... A World of Beauty"; Houston, TX

AQS Quilt Show, Paducah, KY

Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Williamsburg, VA, "Honorable Mention" 2000

Handmade in Virginia: A Celebration of Craft; Olin Gallery; Roanoke College; Roanoke, VA; 1993

Publications

Focus on Batiks(2004), by Jan Bode Smiley, from C&T Publishing features two of my quilts

Shoreline Quilts (2003), from C&T Publishing, features my Sea of Dreams quilt

New River Valley Current, feature article, February 19, 2002

Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, (photos, invitational) October 2001, April 2003

Quilter’s Gallery, article,1998

Education

M.S. Ed Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
B.A. Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA
AAS Computer Graphics