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You can see my work here:
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Swish

​Quilt National 2025
Dairy Barn Arts Center 
Athens, Ohio
May 23 - September 2025
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​Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA
March 24, - April, 27

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Frolic


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Nexus Group


​Thinking Outside
 the Block


​Diane Melms
Solo Show
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 Bunnell Street Art Center, Homer, Alaska 
April 5, 2024




​International Gallery


of Contemporary Art

Anchorage, Alaska

The International Gallery will be
hosting an exhibit of members work

March 1 - 31, 2023

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In Good Company


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Frolic





​Alaska

Biennial


Anchorage Museum

Anchorage, Alaska

​November 4, 2022 - October, 2023



​Quilts=Art=Quilts


Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center
Auburn, New York

​October 29,2022 - January 8, 2023

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The Block and Beyond

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Half Square and More



​Thinking
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Outside
 the
Block


​Diane Melms
Solo Show
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Visions Art Museum
Contemporary Quilts & Textiles
San Diego, California
​April 16, 2022 - July 3, 2022
You can view individual pieces at
Visions Museum website
visionsartmuseum.org/thinking-outside-the-block/



Visions Interpretations
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2021

Visions Art Museum
Contemporary Quilts and Textiles
San Diego, California
October 16, 2021 - January 2, 2022
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Thinking Outside the Block

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Quilts=Art=Quilts

Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center
Auburn, New York
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October. 23, 2021 - January 9, 2022
                                                                           Thrill Ride

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Vivid Disposition
Quilt National 2021
Dairy Barn Arts Center 
Athens, Ohio
May 28 - Sept 6, 2021

​San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
​San Jose, California
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October 16, 2022 - January 8, 2023
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Wayne Arts Center, Wayne, PA presents
An Online Exhibition
May 14 - July 9, 2021
See online exhibit here:
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In Jest

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Thinking Outside the Block
SHAPE  PLAY
A solo exhibition of textile work by
Diane Melms
September 4 - 29, 2020
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Georgia Blue Gallery
Anchorage, Alaska

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SAQA  Alaska is a diverse group of artists who share the love of making art with cloth and stitch.  The thirteen works in this exhibit represent a wide range of artistic styles and run the spectrum, from whimsical to dynamic, to contemplative.
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Gather

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Made to Measure 
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UPCYCLE   
SAQA Global Exhibition 
International Quilt Festival, Houston Texas: October  2019
Original Sewing & Quilt Expo, Chicago, Illinois: June  2021 
Original Sewing & Quilt Expo, Cleveland, Ohio: July  2021
Original Sewing & Quilt Expo, Raleigh, North Carolina: August  2021 
Original Sewing & Quilt Expo, Fredericksburg, Virginia: Sept.   2021
Original Sewing & Quilt Expo, Novi, Michigan: November  2021
BlackRock Center for the Arts, Germantown, Maryland:  
​September 17 - October 29, 2022

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Visions Art Gallery

INTERPRETATIONS 2019: RHAPSODY

SanDiego, California 

October 19, 2019 - January 5, 2020 

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Thrill Ride


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Summer Light Brigade

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CONNECTING
​OUR NATURAL WORLDS

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
​SAQA Global Exhibition
-a traveling exhibit-
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October 5, 2019 - January 5, 2010
(more venues to come)


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Season After Season 
SAQA Global Exhibit

​Texas Quilt Museum
La Grange, Texas
​ January 10 - March 24, 2019

European Patchwork Meeting
Sainte-Marie Aux Mines, France,
September 12 - 15, 2019
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Prague Patchwork Meeting
Prague, Czech Republic,
April 3-5, 2020

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Winter Solstice


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Life Dance 
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Quilts = Art = Quilts
Auburn, New York
Oct. 27, 2018 - Jan. 6, 2019
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Art Quilts Extraordinaire
August 1 - 31, 2018
A Judged Exhibit 
Jurors: Linda Robinson and Anne Louise

Kenai Fine Arts Center, Kenai, Alaska

Chroma Stack #1 was awarded
Best of Show!
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Chroma Stack #1

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Artist as Quiltmaker XVIII 
​Ma
y 12 - July 29, 2018

FAVA's 18th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Quilts
http://www.favagallery.org/aqm-artist-as-quiltmaker.html​

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Mirage 
Firelands Association for the Visual Arts,  39 South Main Street,  Oberlin, Ohio 

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Brain Storm

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Art Quilt Elements 
Wayne Art Center

413 Maplewood Ave.
Wayne, Pa   March 16-April 28 
www.wayneart.org


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Jubilo

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​My piece Jubilo was selected for the
Studio Art Quilt Association's 
MODERN INSPIRATIONS 
 a special exhibition shown at
QUILTCON 2018
 in Pasadena, CA 

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  • Modern Quilts – Designs of the New Century & Modern Inspirations
  •  Art quilts from 1970s through today
  • April 28 - June 17,2018

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Watermelon Dreams 

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Rejoice
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​HANDS ALL AROUND

INTERNATIONAL QUILT FESTIVAL
George Brown Convention Center
Houston, Texas.    Nov. 2 - 5, 2017


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Mirage
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QUILTS=ART=QUILTS
Schweinfurt Art Center
Auburn, New York
Oct .28, 2017 - Jan. 7, 2018


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With These Hands
Ross Museum of Art
Delaware, Ohio
May 19 - June 30, 2017
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Brain Storm
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Life Dance

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Fresh Salsa
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Complex Cloth
Diane Melms - Solo  Show
Bunnell Street Art Center, Homer, Alaska
March 3 - 31, 2017

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Undulating Blocks #2




Circular Abstractions

Bull's Eye Quilts - Traveling


Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
August 2 6 - November 30, 2016
Decorative Arts Center of Ohio, Lancaster, OH

February 4 - April 23, 2017
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
May 13 - October 22, 2017
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
June 3 - August 20, 2017
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI

Sept. 23, 2017 - Jan 21, 2018
Westmoreland Museum of American Art
Dec. 15, 2018 - March 10, 2019


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Organized by the Muskegon Museum of Art -guest curator Nancy Crow
This touring exhibition showcases some of the best machine piecing and quilting being done today.  The Exhibition features 50 quilts by an array of artists that improvise around the Bull's Eye pattern: a four quadrant design with a bull's eye at the center of each quadrant.
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Working on my piece SYNERGY which is in this exhibit.

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CRISSCROSS
SAQA  Alaska is a diverse group of artists who share the love of making art with cloth and stitch.  The twenty works in this exhibit represent a wide range of artistic styles and run the spectrum, from whimsical to dynamic, to contemplative.


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CROSSING PATHS
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EXHIBITION: March 18 - April 30 2016
Opening Reception will be April 2nd
Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA  [email protected]

My piece "Crossing Paths" will be in this exhibit.  I am going to the opening and am so excited. Wahooo!!!!

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Artist as Quiltmaker XVII
FAVA's 17th Biennial Exhibition of
Contemporary Quilts
May 15 – July 31, 2016
The Artist as Quiltmaker is the second-longest-running
  art quilt exhibition in the world.


Firelands Association for the Visual Arts , Oberlin, Ohio
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PROXIMITY

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CHROMIUM (36" X 22")
Radical Elements
My piece "CHROMIUM" is in this unique traveling exhibit which is still booking venues in the US.
CURATORS STATEMENT:
For this exhibition, each of the selected artists created a new work influenced by an element from the periodic table. Inspirations came from anything relating to that element, whether it is a play on the name, its color or the products made from it. Both representational and abstract works were welcomed.
The artists were also asked to move quilting beyond the usual materials of fabric and thread, exploring the function and decorative properties of different surfaces and stitching materials. This exhibition was the first to embrace the newly expanded definition of an art quilt and is a signature exhibition for SAQA.

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CHROMIUM (detail)
 EXHIBITION SCHEDULE:

Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, Montgomery College, Silver Spring, Maryland: April 1 - May 9, 2014

National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Ave, Washington, DC: May 18, 2015 - October 19, 2015

Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts, Melbourne, Florida: May 28 - August 27, 2016

International Museum of Art and Science (IMAS), McAllen, TX - September 24, 2016 through January 8, 2017. 



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Seasonal Palette
My piece "BEHOLD" is in this exhibit which is traveling internationally.
Thirty-seven artists were selected to create art quilts celebrating the seasons. The resulting pieces, all sized at 78” tall and 32” wide, create a unique exhibit that moves us through the seasons using texture, light, color and masterful design.
 

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BEHOLD (Detail)

EXHIBITION  SCHEDULE:

Premiere at International Quilt Festival - Houston, November 1-4, 2012
Texas Quilt Museum, La Grange, Texas, January 10 - March 31, 2013
International Quilt Festival - Cincinnati, Ohio, April 2013
International Quilt Festival - Long Beach, California, July 2013
National Quilt Museum, Paducah, Kentucky, September 12 - December 2, 2013
The Original Creative Festival at the Sharonville Convention Center, Sharonville (Cincinnati), Ohio, June 12-14, 2014
Festival Internacional de Patchwork e Arts Afins, Curitiba, Brazil, August 27 - 30, 2014
New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts, April 5 – July 26, 2015
J. Wayne Stark Galleries at Texas A&M University - August 6-October 4, 2015
Taiwan International Quilt Exhibition 2016, National Tainan Living Art Center, Tainan City, Taiwan - April 30-May 29, 2016
Gerald R. Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, MI - July 1, 2016 through August 31, 2016
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BEHOLD (78" X 32")


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