EDUCATION
1972 M.F.A., Southern Illinois University
1964 Diploma in Fine Art, with Distinction, Ulster College of Art and Design, N. Ireland
GRANTS
2000 Virginia Commission for the Arts, Honorable Mention 1999 Nominated for Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant 1998 Ruth Chenven Foundation, N.Y. Individual Artist Grant
1996 Virginia Commission for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant.
1990 Virginia Commission for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant; Collaborative Grant (with Linda McGreevy, critic) Handworkshop, Va. Center for Crafts
SOLO SHOWS
2017 Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon
2011 Chroma Project for the Arts, Charlottesville, VA 2003 Old Dominion University Gallery, Norfolk, VA
2002 Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
2001 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
1999 Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
1998 - Hunt Gallery, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA
- PVCC Gallery, Charlottesville, VA 1997 Institution Cultural Peruano Norteamericano Gallery, Lima, Peru
1995 The Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1993 The InterArt Center, New York, NY
1992 - University Art Gallery, Baylor University, TX
- Gayle Wilson Gallery, Southhampton, NY 1991 The Hand Workshop Gallery, Richmond, VA 1990 The Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
1989 The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
1988 - Montclair State College Gallery, Upper Montclair, NJ
- ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986 - Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Louisville, KY
- Elaine Potter Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 Gayle Wilson Gallery, Southhampton, NY
1984 - Marsh Gallery, University of Richmond, VA
- Marvin Cone Gallery, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA
1983 - New Brunswick Craft Centre Gallery, Fredericton, Canada
- Triton College Gallery, Chicago, IL
1982 - Iowa Arts Council Gallery, Iowa City, IA
- Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1979 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
1978 Fullerton Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1977 Memorial Union Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1974 Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
1973 Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA
GROUP SHOWS
2005 "Accelerating Sequence", Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
2004 "30 Years", Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2003 "Hindsight/ Fore-Site Revisited", Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
2000 - "Women of the World" (representing N.Ireland), Traveling, White Columns, NYC
- "Snapshot", The Contemporary Museum , Baltimore, MD.
- "Art for the New Millennium: Hindsight/ Fore-site", Bayly Art Museum, University of VA.
1999 "Red, White and Blue", Longwood Center for Visual Arts, Farmville, VA
1998 ARTSITES, "Excavation", Washington Projects for the Arts/Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington DC
1997 - “Transformation: Fiber Orientations/New Applications. The Work of Annet Couwenberg, Barbara
MacCallum and Piper Shepard”, Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, State University of New York, Cortland
- “A Permeable Edge: Body/Figure”, Emerson Gallery, McLean Project for the Arts, VA, and The Delaplaine
Visual Arts Center, Frederick, MD
- “Domesticity: Nostalgia and Memory”, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
1996 “House/Scene”, Travelling in Germany, sponsored by Children in Crisis International
1993 “Contemporary American Quilts”, Travelling UK, 1993-1995, British Crafts Council, London, England
1992 “3 + 2D”, The Arts Center, Kinston, NC
1990 - “The Definitive Contemporary American Quilt” Travelling USA and Japan, 1990-1994, The Bernice
Steinbaum Gallery, NYC
- Virginia Commission for the Arts Award, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
- “The Common Thread”, Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO
1988 - “Craft Now: Breaking Boundaries”, Travelling USA, 1988-1991, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
- “Building Art: Architectural References in Sculpture”, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN
- Arrowmount Faculty Show, Arrowmount School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
- “Spotlight ’88: Southeast/Southwest Crafts”, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
- “New Art Forms: Virginia” Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA
1987 - “Interlacing: The Elemental Fabric”, Travelling, 1987-1989, American Craft Museum, NYC, and the Textile
Museum, Washington, DC
- “Contemporary Direction in Fiber”, Travelling, University of Louisville, KY
- “Constructs”, Gayle Wilson Gallery, Southhampton, NY
- “Architectural Weavings”, Somerhill Gallery, Durham, NC
- “Spotlight ‘87”, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
- “Artists Choose Artists”, Greenhill Center for N.C. Art, Greensboro, NC
1986 - “Weaving Without Fiber”, Modern Master Tapestries, New York, NY
- “Connections: Works in Fiber”, Three Rivers Arts Festival Pittsburgh, PA
1985 - “Art Materialized”, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
- “Pieceworks”, Travelling 1985-1987, The President’s Gallery, Brenau College, GA
- “Evolving Crafts: Traditional to Contemporary”, Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA
1984 - Gayle Willson Gallery, Southhampton, NY
- “Surface to Structure”, Travelling, 1984-1986, Georgia State University
- American Craft Council Workshop Leaders, University of Kentucky
1982 - “The New Plastics: Fiber in Today’s Technology”, Travelling, 1982-1984, The Visual Arts Center of Alaska
- “Linear Abstractions”, The Visual Arts Center of Alaska
ARTICLES/REVIEWS
2025 Streetlight Magazine, Oct 3, Feature Article “Barbara MacCallum’s Androgynous Art” by Elizabeth Howard.
2024 “The Beauty of Choice: on Women, Art and Freedom” by Wendy Steiner, Columbia University Press.
2017 Catalog for Solo Show “Barbara MacCallum: Appropriating Science”, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art,
University of Oregon
2000 The Surface Design Journal, Summer, Vol. 24, No. 4. Feature article with photographs, "A Marriage of Art
and Science" by Cheryl Kolak Dudek.
1999 Art Papers, Jan/Feb. Feature article with photographs, "The Ambient O2: The Twinned Atmosphere of Art
and Science" by Dinah Ryan and Paul Ryan.
1998 - Sculpture, Jan., Vol.17, No. 1. Review of "A Permeable Edge: Body Figure" by George Howell.
- Fiberarts, Summer, Vol. 25, No. 1. Review with photograph of "A Permeable Edge:Body/Figure" by Laura
McGough.
- The Surface Design Journal, Spring, Vol. 22, No. 3; Review of "A Permeable Edge: Body/Figure" by Kristen
Hileman.
1997 - Articulate Contemporary Review, April, Vol. 3, Issue 3. Special Supplement. Review with photograph of
“Domesticity: Nostalgia and Memory” curated by Saul Ostrow while critic-in-residence at 1708 Gallery
- El Sol, Lima, Peru. Mon Jan 13. Review with photograph of solo show at Instituto Cultural Peruano
Norteamericano Gallery
- El Comercio, Lima, Peru. Fri Jan 10. Review with photographs of solo show at Instituto Cultural Peruano
Norteamericano Gallery
- Gestion, Lima, Peru. Tues Jan 7. Review with photographs of solo show at Instituto Cultural Peruano
Norteamericano Gallery
1996 - Art Papers, March/April, Review with photo of solo show at the Anderson Gallery, Virginia
Commonwealth University, by Dawn Latane
- The Surface Design Journal, Spring. Feature article with photo, “Material Matters”, by Patricia Malarcher
1995 The Richmond Times Dispatch, Sun Nov 12. Review with photo of solo show at the Anderson Gallery,
Virginia Commonwealth University, by CeCe Bullard
1994 Fiberarts, September/October, Vol. 21, No. 2. Feature article with photograph, “Creative Transformation”,
by Patricia Malarcher
1993 - Fiberarts, November/December, Vol. 20, No. 3, “New Works”. Photograph and statement.
- Crafts (UK), July/August Review with photograph of “Contemporary American Quilts” at British Crafts
Council, London
- The New Art Examiner, March, Vol. 20, No. 7. Review with photograph of solo show at University Gallery,
Baylor University, Waco, Texas, by Janice McCullagh
- Art Papers, January/February. Review with photograph of solo show at University Gallery, Baylor University,
Waco, Texas, by Joe Kagle
1992 Art Papers, November/December. Feature article with photographs, “A Crafting collaboration”, by Linda
McGreevy
1991 The Surface Design Journal, Vol. 16, No.1. Feature article with photographs, “Barbara MacCallum, Quilting
as Collaboration: The Sculptural Transformations”, by Linda McGreevy
1990 - The New Art Examiner, Summer. Review of a solo show at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center, by Linda
McGreevy
- Fiberarts, Summer, Vol. 17, No. 1. “Political Fiber: A Portfolio”, photograph and statement.
- Portfolio Magazine, March 13, Review of solo show at The Peninsula Fine Arts Center, “Recent
Constructions: MacCallum Translates Quilts to a New Medium”, by Linda McGreevy
1989 The Honolulu Star-Bulletin & Adviser, Sun, May 7. Review of a solo show at the Contemporary Museum,
“Recent Work by Barbara MacCallum”, by Marcia Morse
1988 The New York Times, Sun, Mar 27. Review of solo show at Montclair State College Gallery, “Extending
the Concepts of Fiber”, by Patricia Malarcher.
1987 - “Interlacing: The Elemental Fabric”, a book by Jack Larsen and Betty Freudenheim. Photograph and
discussion of work
- Fiberarts, Vol 14, No. 3, “New Work” section. Photograph and review by Lida Gordon
- The New York Times, Thurs, May 28. Review of “Constructs”, Gayle Wilson Gallery, “Wire and Plastic
Fabrics at Gallery”, by Betty Freudenheim
- The Wall Street Journal, Fri, May 1. Review of “Interlacing”, American Craft Museum, “Form and Fiber”, by
Barbara Jepson
1986 - American Craft, December/January “Portfolio” section. Photograph and review.
- Dialogue: An Art Journal, May/June. Review, “Connections: Works in Fiber”, by Sarah C. Nichols
1985 - The New York Times, Thurs, Aug 29. Review of solo show at the Gayle Wilson Gallery, Southhampton, NY,
“Fiberart: The New Twist in Weaves”, by Betty Freudenheim
- Fiberarts, July/August. Review with photographs of solo show at the Marvin Cone Gallery, Coe College,
Cedar Rapids, IA, by Naomi Schedl
- Fiberarts, January/February. Photograph and discussion of work, “Plastics in Fiber”, by Patricia Malarcher
1984 - Fiberarts, September/October. Article with photographs, “The New Brunswick Craft School: Hosting a
Workshop by Barbara MacCallum”, by Nancy Bauer
- The News and Observers, Raleigh, NC, June. Photograph and review, “Creative Fiber at NCSU”, by Steven
Litt
- The Crafts Report, August/September. Photograph and report on the American Craft Council’s
Southeastern Conference
1983 Fiberarts, March/April. Feature article with photographs, “Structure and Surface: The Work of Barbara
MacCallum”, by Janet Koplos
PUBLIC LECTURES ON MY WORK
2017 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
1998 Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
1997 - Trinity College, Hartford, CT
- Art New England, Bennington College, VT
1995 Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts, Richmond, VA
1994 The Challenge Quilt Group, Washington, DC
1993 Fiber Arts Study Group, Washington, DC
1992 Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY
1991 - The Textile Study Group of New York
- Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
1990 - SECAC, Atlanta College of Art. Joint presentation with critic Linda McGreevy
- The Textile Arts Festival, Bradford, England
1988 - The Textile Museum, Washington, DC
- William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ
- Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ
- Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ
1987 Contemporary Directions in Fiber, Watertower Art Association, The University of Louisville, KY
1986 - California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
- University of California, Davis, CA
- University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
- Kauai Society of Artists, Kauai, HI
1985 - Surface Design Association National Conference, Asilimar, CA
- Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ
- Fiberworks, John F. Kennedy University, Berkely, CA
- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1984 - Coe College Public Event Series, Cedar Rapids, IA:
“Evolution in My Work: 1973-83”
“Fiber Arts Today: A Contemporary Approach”
1983 - Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
- New Brunswick Craft School and Centre, Fredericton, N.B, Canada
1982 - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1981 - Bayly Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA, “Contemporary Art in Fiber”
- New England Weaver’s Seminar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1980 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
WORKSHOPS TAUGHT/RESIDENCIES
2004 SymbioticA, University of Western Australia, Perth
2003 SymbioticA, University of Western Australia, Perth
1997 Art New England Workshop, Bennington College, VT
1988 Arrowmount School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
1984 American Craft Council’s S.E. Craft Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
1983 - New Brunswick Craft School and Centre, Fredericton, N.B, Canada
- Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
1982 University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1980 - Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
- Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
1979 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
1978 - Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
- Richmond Craftsman’s Guild, Richmond, VA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1980-2000 Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA:
Professor of Art, Head of Art Program
1997-1998 Sabbatical Leave of Absence:
Worked in own studio, NYC
1996 (Spring) Educational Leave of Absence:
Worked in own studio, NYC
1991-1992 Educational Leave of Absence:
Worked in own studio, NYC
1988 (March) Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ:
Visiting Artist, Art Department, New Jersey Governor’s Challenge Grant for Excellence
1986 (Spring) University of Hawaii at Monoa, Honolulu, HI:
Visiting Professor, Art Department
1981-1982 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL:
Visiting Artist
1977-1980 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA:
Visiting Lecturer: Summers
1978-1980 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA:
Assistant Professor, Humanities Division, School of Engineering and Applied Science
1973-1975 Longwood College, Farmville, VA:
Assistant Professor, Campus School
1972-1973 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA:
Instructor, Art Department
1971-1972 Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA:
Assistant Professor, Art Department
1970-1971 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL:
Teaching Assistant
1965-1970 Bloomfield Collegiate, Belfast, N. Ireland:
Head of Art Department