Resume
UPCOMING & CURRENT EVENTS
Selected works currently on exhibit at Norwood on the Washdemoak B&B, Cambridge Narrows,
New Brunswick
EDUCATION
1993 Masters of Fine Art, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1982 Bachelor of Fine Art, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1977 Diploma, Fabrics Major, Sheridan College, School of Craft and Design, Mississauga, Ontario
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
July 2012 – Present. Associate Professor Emerita (retired), Department of Art and Design,
College of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Aug. 2001 – June 2012 Assistant / Associate Professor, Department of Art and Design, College of Design,
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Aug. 1999 - spring 2001 Head of Textiles Studio, New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Aug. 1995 - May 1998 Coordinator, Fibres Programme, Studio Arts Department, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
SELECT SOLO & 2 PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 Recognition, Perry Gallery, Art Gallery of Burlington, Ontario, Canada
2021 Vita Plume: Patterns & Portraits, UNB Arts Centre, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
2021 Commemoration: Woven Stories, Mary Black Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2021 Remembrance Day: Fallen Soldiers: Canadian, NB Military History Museum, Base Gagetown,
New Brunswick, Canada
2019 Commemoration: Vita Plume, New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
2012 & 2014 Vita Plūme: Noaustie Stāsti (Woven Narratives), solo exhibitions, Madonas Museum of
History & Art, Madona & Aizkraukles History & Art Museum, Aizkraukle, Latvia
2013 Vita Plume: Doris Ulmann’s Appalachian Spirits, Traylor Galleries, Berea College, Kentucky, USA
2012 In Response: Weaving by Ann Roth & Vita Plume, Gregg Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
2011. Fabrications, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2011 Narration, Two person exhibition, Materia, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
2006 Catharine Ellis & Vita Plume, two person exhibition, Grand Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
2002 Woven Works, solo exhibition, The Carnegie Building, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
2002 Cultural Journeys, the Woven Work of Ramona Sakiestewa and Vita Plume, invitational exhibition,
The Gallery of the College of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A.
1997 Retaining....desire, two person exhibition with Buseje Bailey, Observatoire 4, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1995 Traces of Translation, solo exhibition, Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
1992 Vita Plume: Weaving, Solo Exhibition, Iisalmi Cultural Centre, Finland
1992 Starp svesumu un majam / From Away, travelling solo exhibition, Cesis Museum, Cesis;
Museum of Jekabpils, Jekabpils; Madona Museum of History & Art, Madona; Bauska Museum of Art, Bauska; Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Refocus on Fibre Art, Sunbury Shores, Saint Andrews New Brunswick, Canada
2020 Fibre Art Network: Craft 2020: Reflections, UNB Art Centre, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
2018 Māksla nešķir, māksla vieno! (Art Unites!) Latvian Art Centre, Cēsis, Rīga, Latvia
2017 First/50 Alumni Exhibition, The Gallery, Sheridan College, Trafalgar Campus, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
2016 Spectrum, Travelling exhibition, NB Crafts Council, Canada
2014 Changing Appalachia: Custom to Cutting Edge, Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
2013-14 Quiet Stories / Klusi Stāsti: Textile work by Inese Jakobi, Vita Plume, & Inese Birstins,
Latgale Museum of Culture and History; Krustpils Museum of Art; Rēzeknes Museum of History
and Art; Alūksnes Art School; Valka Museum of Art, Latvia
2013 Sorrows of War, Rust Hall, Memphis College of Art, Tennessee, USA
2012 Textiles Today, Redefining the Medium, Durango Arts Center, Colorado, USA
2010 Binary Fiction: Digital Weaving 2010, Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, Lincoln Nebraska, USA
2009 & 2010 Lieu de mémoire: Biennale du lin, Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay, Montreal, Quebec, Canada & La Chevrotiere Mill, Deschambault-Grondines, Quebec, Canada
2008 Tattered Cultures: Mended Histories, curator: Mary Babcock, Academy Art Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
2008 Weaving & Resist, curator: Catharine Ellis, Art Gallery, Hillsborough Community College,
Tampa, Florida, USA
2008 Facing South: Portraits by NC Artists, Green Hill Center for NC Art, Greensborough,
North Carolina, USA
2007 - 2008 Materialize, The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Frederciton, NB; Gallery 360, Nepisiguit Centennial Museum & Cultural Centre; Saint Johns Art Center; Andrew & Laura McCain Gallery, Florenceville; Owens Art Gallery, Sackville; Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre, Saint Andrews, Canada
2007 Textile Monuments, curator: Edie Carpenter, Green Hill Center for NC Art, Greensborough,
North Carolina, USA
2006 About Jacquard, invitational exhibition, Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2006 Jacquard Weaving: Works by American Weavers, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, USA
2006 Explorations in Fibers, curator: Lisa Kriner, Doris Ulman Galleries, Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, USA
2005 Textile Catalysts: Shibori Shaping the 21st Century, International Juried exhibition, Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2005 Recursion: Material Expression of Zeros & Ones, curator: Carol LeBaron, Museum of Design, Atlanta, Georgia; George Caleb Bingham Gallery; University of Missouri, Columbia; Eastern Michigan University, USA
Contemporary Crafts, National juried exhibition, Juror: Sandra Blain, ArtSpace Gallery, Raleigh, NC, USA- AWARD: Honourable Mention
2004 2nd European Textile & Fibre Art Triennial: Tradition and Innovation, Museum of Decorative Art, Riga, Latvia
2004 Crafts National 38, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA
Spotlight 2003, American Craft Council annual juried exhibition, Juror: Kenneth Tripp, Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
2003 Cross section: Material and Process, Slocumb Gallery, East Tennessee University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
2000 Looking Forward, Ontario Crafts Council, National Trade Centre, Toronto, Ontario and other
venues in Canada
2000 Des champs textiles, curated exhibition, Le Centre des Arts contemporains du Quebec a Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1994 Eau infinité des possibles, curated exhibition, Galerie Occurence, Le Vieux-Port, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1994 Langues, torsions et noeuds, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1993 7th Montreal Biennial of Tapestry, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1992 Speaking in Tongues: Ethnic Influences in Contemporary Tapestry & Fiber Art, Centre for
Tapestry Arts, New York, New York, USA
1992 Political Textiles, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1991 Tekstil - 91, Latvian & Norwegian textile artists, Kristiansand, Norway
1990 International Exhibition of Latvian Art,/Vispasaules latviesu makslas izstade, Museum of Decorative Art, Riga, Latvia
1989 5th Exhibition of Latvian Fibre Art, juried exhibition, Peter's Church, Riga, Latvia
1988 2 Cities / 2 Countries - Lublin/Halifax Exchange, curated exhibition, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland and The Centre for Art Tapes and Eye Level Gallery, Halifax,
Nova Scotia, Canada
1988 Out of Canada, curated exhibition, International Gallery, San Diego, California
1987 Latvian Artists from Four Continents, curated exhibition, Gallery of Foreign Art, Riga, Latvia, USSR
SELECT LECTURES / PRESENTATIONS:
Artist Presentations: Lakeshore Weaver’s Guild, Pointe Claire, Quebec; Burlington Weavers Guild, Burlington, Ontario; NY Textile Study Group, New York; Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia; Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (NSCAD), Halifax, Nova Scotia; Baltic Artists Association, Montreal, Quebec; Latvian Craft Guild, Toronto Latvian Center, Toronto; Fondazione Lisio Arte della Seta, Florence, Italy; School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Fibers Department, Chicago, Illinois; Triangle Weavers, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, Fredericton, New Brunswick; School of Human Ecology, University of Madison, Madison, Wisconsin; Haywood Community College, Clyde, North Carolina; School of Fine Arts, East Carolina State University, North Carolina; Department of Art & Design, East Tennessee State University; University of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas, SOFA Chicago; College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, California; Textile Society of America, 10th Biennial Symposium; Centre for Contemporary Textiles, Montreal, Quebec; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia; School of Textiles and Materials, Philadelphia University, Philadelphia; SECAC & Tri State Sculptors Conference, Raleigh, North Caroline; The 7th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference of the Women’ Studies Program, Valdosta State University, Georgia
SELECTED WORKSHOPS:
Lakeshore Weavers Guild, Pointe Claire Quebec; Sunbury Shores, Saint Andrews, New Brunswick; Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, Maine; East Carolina State University, North Carolina; Prague Institute, North Carolina State University, The Czech Republic; Asheville Weavers Guild, Asheville, North Carolina; New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, Fredericton, New Brunswick; The Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina; Triangle Weavers, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Haywood Community College, Clyde, North Carolina; University of Madison in Wisconsin; American Center of the University of Maine in Orono
SELECT AWARDS / GRANTS
2012 Wake Country Project Grant, Raleigh, North Carolina
2010 - 2011 North Carolina Arts Fellowship
2010 Faculty Research and Professional Development Award (collaboration with Jan Ru Wan),
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
2006 - 2007 Canada Council for the Arts – Creations B Grant
2001 Creation Grant, N.B. Arts Board
2000 Travel Grant, N.B. Arts Board
1997 Canada Council Short Term Grant
1996, 1992, 1990, 1989 Canada Council - Travel Grants
1992 Joseph Beuys Scholarship, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Sept. 2019 John Willard Fibre Arts Residency, Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington Ontario
June 2004 & 2005 String Fever Gallery Artist Residency, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Sept. 1999 - March 2000 Artist in Residence, N.B. College of Craft & Design, Fredericton,
New Brunswick., Canada
Sept. 1993 - May 1994 Artist in Residence, Department of Studio Arts, Fibres Programme,
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Winter 1991 Neo-Mythic Art Making, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Fall 1990 Norwegian / Latvian Textile Symposium, Riga, Latvia
Summer 1990 Summer Residency on Border Cultures, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff,
Alberta, Canada
Fall 1989 3rd International Fibre Symposium, Riga '89, Latvia
COLLECTIONS
Canada: University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick; Nova Scotia Art Bank;
Latvian Cultural Centre, Toronto
USA: Berea College, Kentucky; North Carolina State University, College of Design, Raleigh, North Carolina
Latvia: Museum of Decorative Art, Riga; Aizkraukles Vēstures & Mākslas Muzejs (Museum of History & Art), Aizkraukle; Latvian Art Centre, Cēsis, Latvia
Private collections
SELECT RELATED ACTIVITES
2013 - present Director, Preservation and Interpretation & Weaving Consultant, Queens County Heritage, Gagetown, New Brunswick
2021 Juror, Quilt Grand National, Fibre Exhibition, Canada
2019 - 2020 Past President, Textile Society of America: https://textilesocietyofamerica.org/about-us/
2016 - 2018 President, Textile Society of America
2014 - 2016 Incoming President, Textile Society of America
2014 Juror, Canada Council for the Arts, Crafts Jury
2014 Juror, ArtsNB, Craft
1998 - 1999 Member of the Board, Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, New Brunswick
1996 - 1998 Member of the Board, Centre des métiers d'art en construction textile, Montreal, Quebec
1996 Jury Member, Selection of Scholarship recipients, Ontario College of Art and Design,
Toronto, Ontario
1995 Jury Member, Canada Council, Explorations Grant
1990 Canada Council B Grant Jury Member



