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CV: ROBERT SHAW

BOOKS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGS
• American Quilts: The Democratic Art, 1780-2007. New York: Sterling Publishing, Inc. 2009.

• Hand Made, Hand Played: The Art and Craft of Contemporary Guitars. Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 2008.

• Art Quilts: A Celebration. Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 2005.

• Classic Guitars. Petaluma, California: Pomegranate, 2004.

• 30 Distinguished Quilt Artists of the World 2003. Tokyo: Executive Committee for the Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival, 2003.

• 30 Distinguished Quilt Artists of the World 2002. Tokyo: Executive Committee for the Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival, 2002.

• Contemporary Art Quilts from the Collection of John M. Walsh III. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, 2001.

• American Baskets. New York: Clarkson Potter, Inc. 2000.

• The Art Quilt. Southport, CT: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates. 1997.

• Great Guitars. Southport, CT: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates. 1997.

• Hawaiian Quilt Masterpieces. Southport, CT: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates.1996.

• Quilts: A Living Tradition. Southport, CT: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates. 1995.

• America's Traditional Crafts. Southport, CT: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1993.

• Call to the Sky: The Decoy Collection of James M. McCleery, M.D., Houston. Houston Museum of Natural Science/Gulf Publishing Co., 1992.

BOOKS: SELECTED INTRODUCTIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
• "Humanizing the Mundane," "Boxes and Baskets,""A Child's World: Academy and School Work," and ""United as This Heart You See: Memories of Friendship and Family," Innocence and Eloquence: The Katcher Collection of American Folk Art. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006.

• Forward, QuiltArt 20. Edinburgh, Scotland: QuiltArt, July, 2005.

• Introduction, Rooted in Tradition: Art Quilts from the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Virginia Beach, Virginia: Donning Company Publishers, June, 2005.

• "America's Mythic Instrument." The Birth of the Banjo. Katonah, New York: The Katonah Museum of Art, 2003.

• "Quilts and Community," The Nevada Quilt Odyssey. Reno, Nevada Historical Society, 2002.

• "Introduction," Amish Quilts 1880-1940 from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Art Museum, 2000.

• "The McCleery Collection" and "American Bird Decoys," American Waterfowl Decoys: The Distinguished Collection of Dr. James M. McCleery. New York: Sotheby's, 1999.

• Contributor, The Twentieth Century's Best American Quilts. Golden, CO: Primedia Special Interest Publications, 1999.

• Consultant, Sotheby's Guide to American Folk Art. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1994.

• Forward, Decoys, Linda and Gene Kangas. Paducah, KY: Collector Books, 1992.

• Introduction and "Collecting Decoys," The Great Book of Wildfowl Decoys. San Diego: Thunder Bay/Abbeville, 1990.

• Contributing author, An American Sampler: Folk Art from the Shelburne Museum. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1987.

SELECTED ARTICLES
• "John M. Walsh III: Passionate Patron of the Art Quilt," Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, January 2006.

• "Five Decades of Unconventional Quilts." Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, five part series, 2004.

• with Szego, Peter. "The Early Banjo." The Magazine ANTIQUES. December, 2003: 82-89.

• "The Art Quilt in 2003." FiberArts. November/December 2003: 37-44. (Interview of Robert Saw by Sunita Patterson, editor, FiberArts.)

• "Tools of Deception: A History of American Bird Decoys." Wildfowl Art. Winter 2003: 3-7.

• "Contemporary Quilts: The John M. Walsh III Collection." FiberArts. January/February, 2002.

• "New England Baskets." The Magazine ANTIQUES. August 1998.

• "Cobalt-decorated Stoneware." Early American Homes. August 1998: 8-12.

• "Joel Barber: The Lost Birds," Decoy Magazine. September/October 1994.

• "The Shelburne Museum: The Folk Sculpture," "The Historic Structures " (with Ralph Nading Hill), and "A Pictorial Sampler." The Magazine ANTIQUES, February 1988.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
• "Radka Donnell: The Work of Touch," New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts, April-July 2009.

• "Three American Masters: Kate Adams, M. Joan Lintault, and Susan Shie," Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival, January 16-24, 2009, Tokyo, Japan.

• "Ogden M. Pleissher: The Sporting Grand Tour," American Museum of Fly Fishing, Manchester, VT, June-October, 2008.

• Juror, ArtQuilt Elements, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, 2007.

• "Elements," The Front Range Contemporary Quilters., The Loveland Museum and Gallery, Loveland, Colorado, November 2003, currently traveling t through Exhibits USA

• "The Birth of the Banjo." Katonah (NY) Museum of Art, November 2003- February 2004.

• Juror, "Quilt National 2003," traveling, cataloged organized by The Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens, Ohio

• "30 Distinguished Quiltmakers of the World 2003." Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival, Tokyo, Japan, January 2003

• "Kaleidoscopes and Quilts." Fall International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas, October 2002.

• "A Mediterranean Odyssey: Art Quilts." Patchwork & Quilt Expo VIII, Barcelona, Spain, April 2002

• "30 Distinguished Quiltmakers of the World." Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival, Tokyo, Japan, January 2002.

• "Amish Quilts 1880-1940 from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown." University of Michigan Art Museum, July-September, 2000, traveled to the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Spencer Gallery at the University of Kansas, and Denver Art Museum.

• Selection panelist and curator, "The 100 Best American Quilts of the 20th Century." International Quilt Festival, Houston, October 1999.

• "Call to the Sky: The Decoy Collection of James M. McCleery, M.D." Houston Museum of Natural Science, fall 1992.

• "Naive Visions: Children's Playthings from the Index of American Design and the Shelburne Museum." National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, December 1987.

• "An American Sampler: Folk Art from the Shelburne Museum." National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, opened November 1987, traveled to five other institutions.

SELECTED LECTURES
• "American Quilts: The Democratic Art," Symposium at the DeYoung Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, December 2009.

• Keynote address: "The Evolution of the Art Quilt," Symposium organized by the Contemporary QuiltArt Association and presented by the Washington State History Museum, Tacoma, November, 2007.

• Keynote address: "Pushing the Envelope: 25 Years of Art Quilts," Symposium: Rooted in Tradition: The Art Quilt, Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado, June, 2005

• Keynote address: "A History of the Art Quilt," Boothbay Harbor Quilt Festival, Boothbay, Maine, October, 2004.

• "Quilts Today," Historic Arkansas Museum, 2003.

• "The Art Quilt," University of Kentucky Art Museum, September 2001

• "The Quilt." Illinois State Museum, June 2000.

• Keynote address: "Tools of Deception: American Bird Decoys." , Sotheby's
Symposium, New York, January 2000.

• "Art Quilts." The Museum of American Folk Art, June 1998.

Other lecture venues include:
• American Craft Museum (now Museum of Arts & Design), New York
• American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California, San Francisco
• Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth
• Cleveland State University
• Dallas Museum of Natural History
• Dallas Society of Antiques and Fine Arts
• Frog Hollow State Craft Center, Middleubry, VT
• Fuller Art Museum, Brockton, MA
• Houston Museum of Natural Sciences
• Museum of Our National History, Lexington, MA
• New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA
• Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
• Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
• San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
• South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
• Schweinfurth Museum, Aurora, NY
• Ward Foundation Museum of Wildfowl Art , Salisbury, MD

EDITOR AND/PRODUCER
• Editor, Classic Guitars (calendar). Petaluma, California: Pomegranate, 1998-2011.

• Editor, Quilts, (calendar). Petaluma, California: Pomegranate, 2006.

• Editor and producer, The McCleery Auction. Dallas, Texas: Lake Emma Press, 2001.

• Editor, Folk Art Baskets (calendar). Shelburne, VT: Chapters Publishing, Ltd., 1995-1996.

• Editor, Antique Toys (calendar). Shelburne, VT: Chapters Publishing, Ltd., 1995.

• Editor, Wild Bird Eggs (calendar). Shelburne, VT: Chapters Publishing, Ltd., 1995.

• Editor and producer, Robinson, Charles A. Vermont Cabinetmakers and Chairmakers Before 1855: A Checklist. Shelburne, VT: The Shelburne Museum, 1994.

• Producer, The Shelburne Museum. Shelburne, VT: The Shelburne Museum, 1992.

• Editor, American Folk Art (paintings calendar). New York: et Neuter Publishing Company, 1990.

• Editor, Kelly, Rob Roy. Trivets and Stands. Lima, OH: Golden Era Publications, 1990.

• Editor and producer, A Pictorial History of the Shelburne Museum (third, revised edition). Shelburne, VT: The Shelburne Museum, 1988.

• Editor and producer, Wildfowl Decoy Masterpieces (calendar). Shelburne, VT: The Shelburne Museum, 1986-1993.

HONORS
• "Fifty Books by Fifty Alumni of the Last Fifty Years." Starr Library, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, 2000.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
• Associate Fellow, International Quilt Study Center & Museum

• Former board member, The Alliance for American Quilts

• Former board member, Studio Art Quilt Associates

EDUCATION
B.A. English Literature, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, 1973

EMPLOYMENT
• Independent curator, author, consultant, lecturer and appraiser, 1994-

• Executive Director, The Alliance for American Quilts, 2004.

• Consultant, Sotheby's, "American Waterfowl Decoys: The Distinguished Collection of James M. McCleery, M.D.," New York, July 1999- January, 2000.

• Consulting curator, Quilts, Inc./International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas, 1998-2003.

• Consultant, Early American Life magazine, 1994-1995

• Curator, The Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, 1981-1994.

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