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elaine longtemps
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ANNOUNCEMENTS AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
"FLINT" was selected by SAQA for a global traveling exhibition
Art Evolved: Intertwined which will premiere at Yellowstone Art Museum Billings, Montana June 30 - October 22, 2023.
My large piece "Extension/Velocity" was featured in Fiber Art Now Vol 11 Issue 2 Spring 2022 and was included in the exhibition Excellence in Fibers 2022 at the Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, New York May 28 - August 14, 2022
My work was also featured in an eight page article in ARTEMORBIDA Textile Arts Magazine, April 2022 n.07 in both Italian and English printed editions of the magazine as well as an introduction to my Alzheimer's Project' in their online magazine.
I have been invited by Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh to make a presentation of my work March 15, 2023 2:00 PM Eastern Time
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RECENT SOLO EXHIBITION
2018 When Boundaries Begin To Fade, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri
Catalog with Forward by Patricia Malarcher
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GROUP AND INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2022 Excellence in Fibers, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, New York
2022 Variations, Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead, Massachusetts
2022 Fantastic Fibers 2022, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky
2021 New Members Exhibition Silvermine Arts Center Gallery, New Canaan, Connecticut
2020 Elemental: Earth, Fire, Water, Air Curve Gallery, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, Maryland
2020 FIBER 2020, Silvermine Arts Center Gallery, New Canaan, Connecticut
2020 The Gold Standard of Textile and Fiber Art at Westbeth Gallery in New York City
2019 Between The Threads; Webster Arts, St. Louis, Missouri
2019 Rope Unbound: Contemporary Rope Art; Highfield Hall & Gardens, Falmouth, Massachusetts
2019 Fiberart International 2019; Brewhouse Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2019 Third Annual Invitational; NoHoM55 Gallery; New York City
2019 Fiber Now Invitational; The Rye Art Center, Rye, New York
2019 Twisting fibers: An Art For All Reasons; Valley Tourism Center Art Gallery and Gallery 175, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
2018 Water Works; Maryland Federation of Art Curve Gallery, Online Exhibition
2018 RED + ONE; International Bojagi Forum 2018, SETEC, Seoul, South Korea
2017-2018 RED; NoHo M55 Gallery, New York City
2016 Soapbox; Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri
2016 Fiber Options: Material Explorations; Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, Maryland
2016 Korea Bojagi Forum; Suwon IPark Museum of Art (SIMA), Suwon, South Korea and Chojun Textile Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2015 International Fiber Arts VII; Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California
2014 SQUARE; Narthex Gallery, Citicorp Complex, New York City
2014-2015 FOCUS: FIBER 2014; Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania, Sponsored by The Textile Art Alliance of The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
2014 Fiber Fever; Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri
2014 Art From The Boros II; Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York City
2014 Viewpoints 2014; Aljira, Center For Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey
2014 Academy of Fine Arts National Juried Art Exhibition; Lynchburg, Virginia
2014 Day By Day, the Twelve 2013 Artist of the Month Winners; Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway, New Jersey
2013 Spoken Threads; invitational, ArtRage, The Norton Putter Gallery, Syracuse, New York, Curators: Rose Viviano/Kimberley McCoy
2013 Artist of the Month Web Exhibition; Arts Guild New Jersey, www.agnjartistofthemonth.wordpress.com
2013 National Fiber Directions Exhibition 2013; The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
2012 Fiber Options: Material Explorations; The Maryland Federation of Art Circle Gallery, Annapolis, Maryland, Juror: J. Susan Isaacs, Critic
2012 Prismatic; invitational, Art Guild New Jersey, Rahway, New Jersey, Curator: Rachel Faillace
2012 Salon des Refusés; Hudson Guild Gallery, New York City
2012 Made in NY 2012; Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, New York
2012 Crossing Lines: The Many Faces of Fiber; Three World Financial Center, New York City; Juror: Rebecca A. T. Stevens, Consulting Curator Contemporary Textiles, The Textile Museum, Washington D.C.
2011 Green: The Color and The Cause; The Textile Museum, Washington D.C. Jurors: Lee A. Talbot, Associate Curator, Eastern Hemisphere Collections; Rebecca A.T. Stevens, Consulting Curator, Contemporary Textiles
2011 Northeast Regional Contemporary Fiber Exhibition; Rochester Art Center, Rochester, New York
2011 National Fiber Directions Exhibition 2011; The Wichita Center For The Arts, Wichita, Kansas
2011 Fiber Plus; The Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, New York
2011 Uncommon Threads; Invitational, Trenton Artworks, Trenton, New Jersey, Curator: Carol Schepps
2011 25th International Juried Show Silver Anniversary; Visual Arts Center, Summit, New Jersey, Juror: Joan Young, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Solomon R. Gugenheim Museum
2010 Fiber: Twentyten; Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, Missouri
2010 GALEX 44 National Competition; Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, Illinois
2009 Bearing Witness: Art as Social Action; Hosted by ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago, Illinois Juror: Barbara Fish, professor Dept of Psychiatry University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art Institute of Chicago
2009 Katharine Butler Gallery 4th Annual National Juried Exhibition; Sarasota, Florida, Juror: Roy Slade, Former Director, The Corcoran Gallery of Art
2009 CONTINUUM; George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey
2009 Visual Art Center of New Jersey 23rd International Juried Show; Summit, New Jersey, Juror: Adelina Vlas, Assistant Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
2009 Allentown Art Museum's 30th Juried Show; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
2008 59th Annual Art of The Northeast; Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut, Juror: Thom Collins, Director, Neuberger Museum of Art
2008 Surface: Layered; Coconino Community College, Flagstaff, Arizona
2008 Bend, Fold, Manipulate For Peace; ACA Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2008 Contemporary Fiber; The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut
2003 Fiber Directions 2003; Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas, Juror: Jason Pollen
2000 The Butler Institute of American Art 64th Annual Midyear Exhibition; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, Juror: Keith Sonnier
1997 Carving the Forces of Change: Celebrating Women in the Arts (Women's Caucus for Art 25th Anniversary Exhibition); Artemisia, Chicago, Illinois, Juror: Faith Ringgold
1997 Creative Arts Guild 10th Annual Fiber Arts Competition and Exhibition; Dalton, Georgia
1996 New Directions '96; Barrett House Galleries, Poughkeepsie, New York, Juror: Beth Venn, Associate Curator of Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art
1996 25th Juried Show; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
1995 Ana 24; The Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana, Juror: Lloyd Herman, Founding Director, Smithsonian Institute's Renwick Gallery
1995 Color Now; Main Line Art Center, Haverford, Pennsylvania, Juror: Terrie Sultan, Curator of Contemporary Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art
1994 40th National Juried Exhibition; San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, California
1994 Contemporary Artists Center All-Media Summer Exhibition; Berkshire School of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts, Jurors: Clare Bell, Curator, Solomon R. Gugenheim Museum/Ivan Karp, Director, OK Harris Works of Art, New York City
1993 Momento Mori: Remembering in the Age of AIDS; Open Space Gallery, Allentown, Pennsylvania
1993 Mixed Media; Multi-Media Art Gallery, New York City
1971 22nd New England Exhibition; The Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan, Connecticut
1970 Frontal Images '70: Mississippi Art Association 60th Annual National Competitive Exhibition; Jackson, Mississippi
1968 Eighteen Young Artists; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
1968 Solo Exhibition; Fort Hays Kansas State College, Hays, Kansas
1968 Chautauqua Exhibition of American Art; Chautauqua Gallery of Art, Chautauqua, New York
1968 Aspects Gallery, New York City
1968 Aegis Gallery, New York City
1966 6th Annual Mercyhurst National Exhibition of American Drawing; Erie Art Center, Erie, Pennsylvania
1964 Hinckley and Brohel Gallery; New York City and Washington DC
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COLLABORATIONS
Inversions visuals by Elaine Longtemps, computer music and new notation composed by Sean Longtemps
Musicgraphics visuals by Elaine Longtemps, The Song of the Gopis music composed by Mona Hector
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Arte Morbida, Textile Art Magazine, Roma, Italia, numero 7, April 2022
Excellence in Fiber Art VII, Fiber Art Now Magazine, April 2022
Textiel Plus, Kleurrijke touwsculpturen: Elaine Longtemps geeft vorm aan gebeurtenissen, Textiel Plus, Netherlands, Zomer 2020
The Language of Making, Visual Voices From The Textile Study Group of New York, 2019
Artistry in Fiber, Vol 2, Sculpture, Schiffer Publishing 2017
Winners of Entwined: Rope in Fiber Art & Mixed Media; Fiber Art Now, Vol. 7, Issue 2, Winter 2017
Be Inspired, The Annual by Be Creative with Workbox, Vol. 5, Devon, England, "Twisted Tales", October 2016
Foundry Art Centre blog, "Artist Spotlight: Elaine Longtemps/Soapbox Award Winner", October 28, 2016
Be Creative With Workbox magazine, "Gallery", Issue 155, Devon, England, May/June 2016
Fiber Art Now magazine, "Bojagi: A Living Tradition, 2016 Bojagi Forum" by Mara Tegethoff, Fall 2016
Surface Design Magazine, "In Review, New York, NY, Crossing Lines: The Many Faces of Fiber, World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery", Nell Znamierowski, Winter 2013
RISDXYZ, Fall/Winter 2012-13
"Fiber Plus", book published by Blue Door Gallery, 2011
Rochester City Newspaper, NY, "Peacefulness and politics" by Rebecca Rafferty, April 13-19, 2011
Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY, March 31, 2011
Surface Design Magazine, "Creative Exploration of Fiber and Fabric, Exposure", Winter 2010
In A New York Minute, "New York State--Fertile Soil for Fiber Art", Jeanne Raffer Beck, New York State Representative for The Surface Design Association, Sept 23, 2008
Connecticut Post, "Beauty of Fiber," Phyllis A.S. Boros, April 27, 2008
Fiber Art News, January 2003
RISD Views, Summer 2003, Fall 2000, May/June 1995, March/April 1995
Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago, Pamphlets, Call No P-29728
The Morning Call, PA, "Juried Show A Vision of Delights Restored," Geoff Gehman, January 21, 1996
The Philadelphia Inquirer, "A Haverford Center's True Colors Emerge in Contemporary Exhibit," Victoria Donohue, Inquirer Art Critic, April 1995
Main Line Art Center Juror's Statement for Color Now, Terrie Sultan, Corcoran Gallery of Art, April 1995
Berkshires Week, "A Cornucopia of Fine Arts," Daniel Grant, June 9, 1994
The Transcript, "Beaver Mill Site Gallery Season to Open," Rosemary Jette, June 9, 1994
Contemporary Artists Center Press Release, Brandon Graving, June 1994
Phoenix, "American Street Art," Brooklyn, New York 1976
Phoenix, "Children See Things From A New Perspective," Carroll Sugg, Brooklyn, New York, 1973
The Tablet, "This Jungle Is Safe," New York, April 22, 1971
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PUBLICATIONS
Click Here to Download a PDF "Twisted Tales" a magazine article by "Be Inspired by WORKBOX VOL. 5"
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Click Here to Link to TSGNY Blog "Elaine Longtemps: Music and Message" A interview with Jeanne Heifetz of the Textile Study Group of New York, August 26, 2013
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Click Here To Download a PDF "In Review: Crossing the Line" by Surface Design Journal
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SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
Honorable Mention for Earth Entrapment: Predictions for 100 Years, Maryland Federation of Art, 2020
Winner of "Entwined: Rope in Fiber Art & Mixed Media", for FLINT, R&W Rope, Fiber Art Magazine
Juror's Choice Award for FLINT, Maryland Federation of Art
Going Solo Award for Trail of Tears/The Long Walk, Foundry Art Centre
Juror's Choice Award for Trail of Tears/The Long Walk, Maryland Federation of Art
Honorarium, 23rd Annual International, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey
Honorarium, Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, Georgia
The John McKee Memorial Award, San Diego Art Institute for Cross By The Side Of The Road
Recognition by McDonald's Corp as curator for the show Main Street, USA
Juror's Merit Award, Mississippi Art Association for Minuend
Max Beckman Scholarship Program, Brooklyn Museum Art School
European Honors Program, Rhode Island School of Design
Sidney Richmond-Burleigh ScholarshipPROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, New York
Surface Design Association, Sebastopol, California
Textile Study Group of New York, New York City
American Craft Council, New York City
Alumnus of The U.S. Experiment in International LivingEDUCATION
BFA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Rhode Island School of Design European Honors Program in conjunction with The U.S. Experiment in International Living, Rome, Italy
Pratt Institute Graphic Art Center, New York City, work scholarship
Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, New York, Max Beckman Scholarship Program
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