You can see my work here:
Swish
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Quilt National 2025 Dairy Barn Arts Center Athens, Ohio May 23 - September 2025 |
Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA March 24, - April, 27 |
Frolic
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Nexus Group
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Thinking Outside the Block Diane Melms Solo Show Bunnell Street Art Center, Homer, Alaska April 5, 2024 |
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In Good Company |
Frolic
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The Block and Beyond
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Half Square and More
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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/ |
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Visions Interpretations
2021 Visions Art Museum Contemporary Quilts and Textiles San Diego, California October 16, 2021 - January 2, 2022 |
Thinking Outside the Block
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Quilts=Art=Quilts
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center Auburn, New York October. 23, 2021 - January 9, 2022 |
Thrill Ride
Vivid Disposition
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Quilt National 2021
Dairy Barn Arts Center Athens, Ohio May 28 - Sept 6, 2021 San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles San Jose, California October 16, 2022 - January 8, 2023 |
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
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SHAPE PLAY
A solo exhibition of textile work by Diane Melms September 4 - 29, 2020 Georgia Blue Gallery Anchorage, Alaska |
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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Thrill Ride |
Summer Light Brigade |
CONNECTING
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Season After Season
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Winter Solstice |
Life Dance
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Quilts = Art = Quilts
Auburn, New York Oct. 27, 2018 - Jan. 6, 2019 |
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! |
Chroma Stack #1
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Artist as Quiltmaker XVIII
May 12 - July 29, 2018 FAVA's 18th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Quilts http://www.favagallery.org/aqm-artist-as-quiltmaker.html |
Mirage
Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, 39 South Main Street, Oberlin, Ohio
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Brain Storm |
Art Quilt Elements
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Jubilo |
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Watermelon Dreams
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Rejoice
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Mirage
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QUILTS=ART=QUILTS
Schweinfurt Art Center Auburn, New York Oct .28, 2017 - Jan. 7, 2018 |
With These Hands
Ross Museum of Art Delaware, Ohio May 19 - June 30, 2017 |
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
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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. 
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!!!! |
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 |
PROXIMITY
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CHROMIUM (36" X 22")
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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. |
CHROMIUM (detail)
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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. |
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 |
BEHOLD (78" X 32")
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