Karol Kusmaul                                                               Selected Resume
Inverness, FL       
www.kquilt.com
kusmaulk@gmail.com
IG: @karolkusmaul

Education
2023              M.A. in painting, Savannah College of Art and Design

Solo Exhibitions

2020             International Quilt Festival, Fibre Folk, Houston, TX
2019              World Quilt Show, Characters in Cloth, Tampa, FL
2017              Dunedin Fine Art Center, Shirt Tales: Portraits by Karol Kusmaul, Dunedin, FL
2016              Citrus County Art Center, Fiber Stories, Hernando, FL
2015              Peabody Art Gallery, Fabrications, Daytona Beach, FL
2012              College of Central Florida, Traditional and Art Quilts, Lecanto, FL

Juried Exhibitions

2024               SAQA Regional traveling exhibition, "Awakening", Nexus and Life is Good

          SAQA Global exhibition, "Bearing Witness", Traditions Transposed

          Featherstone Center for the Arts, "Rising Up", Oak Bluffs, MA

2023               Taiwan International Quilt Show, Sweep, and In His Hands, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
                         Visions Art Museum, “Visions 2023”, Patience, San Diego, CA

                         Edward A Dixon Gallery, "We're Doing It All Wrong",  Life is Good, Dayton, OH
2012 - 2023  SAQA Global exhibitions, “Microscapes/Aloft/Musica/Season After Season/Food For Thought/
                         Redirecting The Ordinary/Text Messages/Metaphors On Aging/I’m Not Crazy”, multiple venues worldwide
2022               Visions Art Museum, “A Better World”, Magnificent, San Diego, CA
                         Florida Craft Art, “The Artist’s Question”, Party Lights, St. Petersburg, FL, and venues in AL, TX, and FL
                         Awarded Viewers’ Choice 
2021              Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, “Floridian Flavors”, Jacque D, and Three Men, One Tub, Tarpon Springs, FL ,
                        and Stuart Cultural Center, Stuart, FL
                        Dunedin Fine Art Center, “Common Threads”,  Cloth in Common International collection, Dunedin, FL
2020              Taiwan International Quilt Show, Cloth in Common Identity collection, Young Self, Tainan, Taiwan
                        Visions Art Museum, “Visions 2020”, Flirting, San Diego, CA
                        International Quilt Festival, Cloth in Common Reflection/Ecosystems collections, Houston, TX
                        Texas Quilt Museum, “Flying High”, Riverside, La Grange, TX
2019              LeMoyne Art Center, “Perspectives”, Sliders, Tallahassee, FL
                        Brush Gallery, “Quilt Portraits – We’ve Got Personality”, Enthroned, and Song, Lowell, MA
                        International Quilt Festival, “A Better World”, Magnificent, Houston, TX 
2018              International Quilt Festival, “Power of Women”, Pamelanky, Houston, TX
2015 - 2018  International Quilt Festival, “Dinner@Eight” exhibits, Affinity/Patterns/Personal Iconography/Best Of,
                        Houston, TX and Chicago, IL
2017              Court House Cultural Center, “Stitched”, Sunset Cove, Stuart, FL
                        Dunedin Fine Art Center, “Growth!”, Driving Lessons, and Flourish, Dunedin, FL
2015              Florida Craft Art, “Garden of Earthly Pleasures”, Cruising, St. Petersburg, FL
2014              SAQA Regional exhibition, “Piecing Together A Changing Planet”, air, exhibited in ten National US Parks
                        Page-Walker Arts & History Center, “Art Quilts Whimsy”, Pamela’s Chix, Cary, NC
2013              Dunedin Fine Art Center, “Saints Alive!”, St Spouse of Perpetual Perfection, Dunedin, FL
                         Mancuso Quilt Shows, “Hens and Chicks”, curated group show, multiple US venues
                         International Quilt Festival, “In Full Bloom”, Bloom, Houston, TX

2012              Peabody Art Gallery, “SAQA in Florida”, Not So Still Life, Daytona, FL
                        World Quilt Show, Welcome to Our World, and Marine Scene, West Palm Beach, FL
                        Ayer Loft Gallery, “Material Voices”, Jardin du Luxe, Lowell, MA
                        Chambers Arts, “That Which I Love”, Puzzled, Cary, NC, Third place award 

Publications

Kusmaul, Karol. “Non-Stop Faces”. Quilting Arts Magazine. Spring 2021. Issue 109. Pp. 108-111.
Kusmaul, Karol. “Interpreting Isolation”. Quilting Arts Magazine. Summer 2021. Issue 110. pp.97-105.
Kusmaul, Karol. Cloth in Common Round One. Kindle Direct Publishing. 2020.
Kusmaul, Karol. “Benefits and Challenges: Cloth in Common”. Art Quilt Quarterly. Issue No. 17. 2019. pp.4-7,93.
Kusmaul, Karol. “Cloth in Common”. Quilting Arts Magazine. Feb/Mar 2019. Issue 97. Pp.32-39.

Bibliography   

Pillard, Emily. “Campus Connection”. Fiber Art Now. 2023. Summer issue.
Willams, Danielle. “Collaging Portraits with Karol Kusmaul”. Art Quilting Studio. 2022. Vol. 13 Issue 4. pp. 84-94.
Staff. “Cloth in Common”. Patchwork Professional.2020. Germany. Issue 02. 2020. pp. 38-43.
Staff. “Spotlight: Karol Kusmaul, Fiber Artist”. Create Whimsy. Web. Mar. 2020. https://createwhimsy.com/projects/spotlight-karol-kusmaul-fiber-artist/ 
Howell, Diane. “Artists To Watch”. Art Quilt Quarterly. Issue No. 15. 2019. pp. 20-23.
Jones, Susanne. HerStory Quilts: A Celebration of Strong Women.  Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. 2018. pp. 222-223.
Jones, Susanne. Fly Me to the Moon: An Art Quilt Journey. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. 2017. pp. 126, 142, 151, cover art.
Zervis, Carly. “Local Quilters Turn Craft into Art”. Citrus County Chronicle. Feb. 16, 2015. p.A3.
Gorham, Julie. “Rejoicing in Retirement: Quilt Passion Enters New Phase”. Citrus County Chronicle. Dec. 11, 2015. p. C1.  
Staff. Fiber Art Now. Summer 2013. Vol. 2. Issue 4. p. 14.
Sokol, Dawn. 1000 Artist Journal Pages. Quayside Publishing Group. 2008. p. 158.
Bresenhan, Karey. Creative Quilting: The Journal Quilt Project. Quilting Arts, LLC. 2006. p. 178. 
Hornsby, Janet. “The Art of Fabric Postcards”. British Patchwork and Quilting. June 2005. Issue 137. pp. 54-55.
Kennedy, Nancy. “Fabrics of Life”. Citrus County Chronicle. Aug. 22, 2002. p. 1D.

Critical Reviews

Albritton, Caitlin. “Soft, but not squishy: Textiles Dunedin Fine Art Center”. Creative Pinellas Magazine. June 26, 2017.
Cash, Reilly. “Quilting in Community: Inverness Quilter Launches Network of International Artists”. Citrus County       Chronicle. Jan. 1, 2020. https://www.chronicleonline.com/news/local/quilting-in-community-inverness-quilter-launches-network-of-international-artists/article_7d584f32-2b14-11ea-9de6-57a598f07936.html 
 
Private Collections

University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Pamela Allen   Kingston, ON Can
Paula Kovarik   Memphis, TN
Frank Klein  Yorktown, TX
Robert and Tina Varley   Port St. Joe, FL
Mark and JoAnn Urfer   Windsor, CO
Diane Troderman  Longmeadow, MA
Citrus County Courthouse  Inverness, FL

Related Work History

2007 - 2021  Longarm Machine Quilting business, Inverness, FL
2010 - 2016  Art Quilt Instructor, Citrus County Parks and Recreation, FL
2002 - 2010  Advanced Placement Studio Art, Citrus County Schools, FL 

Professional Affiliations

Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), Juried artist member
SAQA Global Exhibition Committee, SAQA Regional Representative in Florida
Founder of international Fiber artist collective, Cloth in Common 

Awards

Academic Honors Graduate Scholarship – Savannah College of Art and Design
Achievement Honor Scholarship Graduate – Savannah College of Art and Design

Visions 2023, President's Community Connection Award, Patience