Tamar Stone
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Amherst - Library, Archives and Special Collections, Amherst. MA
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA
The Banff Center - Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives, Alberta, Canada
Baylor University - Crouch Fine Arts Library, Special Collections, Waco. TX
Boise State University - Albertsons Library, Boise, ID
Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library, Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland Institute of Art - Gund Library, Cleveland, OH
Denison University - Doane Library, Special Collections, Granville, OH
Duke University - Rare book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Sallie Bingham Center
for Women's History and Culture, Durham, NC
Indiana University/Purdue University - Herron Art Library, Artist Book Collection, Indianapolis, IN
Long Island University - Library, Special Collections, Brooklyn, NY
Museum of Modern Art - Library, Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection, New York. NY
New York Public Library - Special Collections, New York, NY
Oberlin College - Clarence Ward Art Library, Special Collections, Oberlin, OH
Otis College of Art and Design - Otis Library, Los Angeles, CA
Printed Matter Inc. Bookstore, New York, NY
Ringling College of Art and Design - Special Collections, Sarasota, FL
Rochester Institute of Technology - Wallace Library, Rochester, NY
Skidmore College - Lucy Scribner Library, Saratoga Springs, NY
Tate Britain, Library - Artists' Book Collection, London. UK
Temple University - Paley Library, Philadelphia, PA
San Diego Museum of Art - Library and Archive, San Diego, CA
UCLA - Arts Library/Dickson Art Center, Los Angeles. CA
Union College - Schaffer Library, Schenectady, NY
University of North Carolina - Jackson Library Special Collections, Greensboro, NC
University of Tulsa - McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Tulsa, OK
University of Washington - Special Collections and Preservations Division, Seattle, WA
University of Wisconsin - Kohler Art Library, Madison, WI
Victoria Albert Museum - National Art Library, London, UK
Walker Art Center - Library, Minneapolis, MN
Washington University - John M. Olin Library, Department of Special Collections, St. Louis, MO
Winchester School of Art/University of Southampton - Art Library, Winchester, UK
Wellesley College - Margaret Clapp Library, Wellesley, MA
Yale University - Libraries: Arts of the Book Collection and The Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT
Public Collections
Group Exhibitions
Art Awards
Education
2024
The Medium is The Message: Lived Experience is the Story, Special Collections –
Allen Library, Universary of Washington, Seattle,
March 18, 2024 - September 19, 2024
2023
Unset Texts, Tang Teaching Museum & Gallery, Scribner Special Collections - Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.
September 2, 2023 - December 30, 2023
2022
Shapes of Things To Come, Sherry Grover Gallery, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA.
October 14, 2022- February 15, 2023
2020
All Sorts (No Licorice!), Sherry Grover Gallery, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA.
Summer - December 31, 2020
Show video: Conventional Burdens crinoline cage can be seen in here at the 7:55 mark
Bronte 200, Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth, West Yorkshire, UK. February 1 - January 1
Anne Bronte: Amid the Brave and Strong, 2020 - 2022
Emily Bronte: Making Thunder Roar, Curator, Ann Dinsdale, 2018 - 2019
Branwell Bronte: Mansions in the Sky, Curator. Simon Armitage, 2017 - 2018
Charlotte Bronte: Charlotte Great and Small, Curator, Tracy Chevalier, 2016 - 2017
2019
Historically Hysterical, Maryland Institute College of Art - The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture,
Baltimore, MD. April 11 - 28, 2019
OPEN SESAME! The Magic of Artist Books Revealed, Sherry Grover Gallery, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art,
Bainbridge Island, WA. March 1 - June 9, 2019
2018
The Art of the Book, Seager/Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA. May 1 2018 - May 31, 2018
Silent Sentinels, Ann Street Gallery - Safe Harbors Of the Hudson, Newburgh, NY. Nov 4, 2017 - Jan 20, 2018
2015
Artist's Books Chapter Five: Woman Now and Then, Sherry Grover Gallery, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art,
Bainbridge Island, WA. June 27 - Sept 27, 2015
The Storied Stitch, Azarian-McCullough Art Gallery, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, NY.
March 31 - April 19, 2015
2014
Under the Wings of Artemis: The Crossroads of Scholarship and Art, Themes from the Academic Works of the University of
Washington Classics Faculty Reflected In Modern Art Books, Special Collections, Allen Library, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA. Oct 14, 2013 - Feb 21, 2014
New York Bound: International Book Art Biennial, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY. Sept 22, 2013 - Dec 29, 2014
2013
Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA. March 2 - July 7, 2013
Down to Sleep - Essex Art Center, The Chester F. Sidell Gallery, Lawrence, MA. March 1, 2013 - April 12, 2013
2012
Feminist Art Base, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art , Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY. January 2012 - on going
Text and Textiles {A SAMPLER}, Trahern Gallery, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN. Feb 13 - March 2, 2012
2010
Elements of Style: Fashion and Form at tha Beinecke, Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library,
New Haven, CT. Jan 19 - March 27, 2010
Beware of Embroidery, PM Gallery & House, Ealing (London), UK. Jan 15 - Feb 27, 2010
2009
Threads: Interweaving Textu[u)al Meaning, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. July 8 - Sept 12, 2009
2008
Tamar Stone and Christine LoFaso: Women's Bodies of/as Work, Philip and Muriel Bennan Museum of Art Ursinus College, Upper Gallery, Collegeville, PA. Sept 14 - Dec 6, 2008
Fun & Games (and Such ... ), The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. July 9 - Sept 13, 2008
Practical to Poetic: Fiber Invitational, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL. May 23 - August 16, 2008
Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. Nov 8, 2007 - April 27, 2008
2004
Triennial 9 Form and Contents: Corporal Identity - Body Language,
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. November 14, 2003 - May 15, 2004
Museum fur Angewandte Kunst (MaKu), Frankfurt, Germany. June 18 - August 31, 2003
2000
ADressing The Body, Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, Ill. July 14 - August 31, 2000
1997
No Boundaries: A Collection of Artists Books, Cambridge Artists Cooperative, Cambridge MA. March 6 - April 16, 1997
1996
2nd Annual Wexford Artists' Book Exhibition, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland. August 9 - September, 1996
Page Turners, Benedicta Art Center, College of St. Benedict, St. Johns. MN. March 3 - April 27, 1996
Guest Speaker & Presentations
New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship 2001, Printmaking/Drawing/Artists' Books
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me: tamarstone@pipeline.com
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts [The Maurice Kan bar Institute of] Film and Television/Graduate Film & TV,
New York, NY. MFA, Film Production. 1986-1990
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. BFA, Photography. 1985
Washington University, School of Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO. 1980-1982
CV
"The Art of Narrative: Meet the UW Librarian of 50 Years Who Oversees a Collection of Rare Artists' Books"
KCTV 9, Arts Blog. February 28. 2018. Aileen Imperial
"In a Bodice. The corset books of Tamar Stone," Textiel Plus, June 2016, Dorolhe Swinkels
"Artist, Tamar Stone, tells the story behind the creation of Charlotte's bed," Enhanced Classics Blog,
May 2016. Video interview with Lori Wark.
"The Storied Stitch, Tamar Stone,'' Carlaesthetic, Blog, April 2015, Carla Bellisio
Strange Material, Storytelling Through Textiles, Arsenal Pulp Press. 2014, Leanne Prain
Inspiration of the Book, Art Power International. 2014, Mo Tingli, Editor
"Tamar Stone's Art: Rewriting the Female Body," Transatlantica, Revue d'etudes Americaines.
American Studies Journal March 2014, Candela Delgado-Marin
"Tamar Stone: Book Artist," Library Company of Philadelphia, Blog
March 4, 2014, Tamar Stone, guest blogger in honor of Women's History Month
An Inspiration to All Who Enter, Fifty Works from Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2013.
Edited by Kathryn James et al. #17: "Asylum - Institution - Sanitarium" [doll bed] 2004
"Printed Books Are Alive and Sometimes Weird," The New YorkTimes, November 15, 2013. Aileen Jacobson
"Sign@lement," Textiel Plus, December 2010
"Book Arts, Seduction & The Classroom" - New in the Library/The University of Washington Special
Division, College Book Art Association Newsletter, September 2010, Number 5, Sandra Kroupa
"Future Heirlooms - Unbound," Mr X Stitch Contemporary Embroidery & Needlecraft, Blog.
June 30, 2010, Joetta Maue
"The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge - Tamar Stone's Dress vs Woman," Mr X Stitch Contemporary
Embroidery & Needlecraft, Blog. June 17, 2010. Jamie Chalmers
"Art: Beware of Embroidery at Ealing's PM Gallery," Mirror.co.uk, Blog. January 19, 2010. Martin Newman
"Tamar Stone On Inspiration," Ululating Undulating Ungulate, Blog. January 4, 2010, Deanna Dahlsad
"The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge -Tamar Stone," Mr X Stitch Contemporary Embroidery & Needlecraft, Blog
October 1, 2009, Jamie Chalmers
"The Incredible Art of Tamar Stone," Kitsch Slapped, Blog. September 30, 2009, Deanna Dahlsad
"Readers' Photos: Call Forwarding," The New York Times, Lens Blog. July 10, 2009, David W. Dunlap
Ken doll Photo
"Echoing the Binding Experience of Women for Centuries," Gilding the Lily, Blog. April 6, 2009
"Book artist: Tamar Stone," Layers Upon Layers web site/Blisstree Blog. March 4, 2009, Cyndi Lavin
"Tamar Stone: Telling Women's Stories," Ampersand, Winter 2009, Vol. 26, No. 2, Deborah Kogan
"Corset Books - And Why Not?" Designers Block, UK Blog. December 17, 2008. Di Overton
"Women's Work," Art Matters, November 1, 2008, Ellen Slupe
"A Look at Quilt Work and Women's Work," Philadelphia Inquirer, October 17, 2008, Victoria Donohoe
"Common threads, Fiber-based art shows weave across the Bay area," Creative Loafing
May 28, 2008, Megan Voeller
"Art In Review - New York Antiquarian Book Fair," New York Times, April 4, 2008, Karen Rosenberg
"On West 53rd Street, MoMA Has No Monopoly on Art," Tha Wall Street Journal,
Feb 14, 2008, Matthew Gurewitsch
"Pricked: Extreme Embroidery," American Craft, Feb/March, 2008, Andrea Dinoto
"Extreme Embroidery: Art and Craft Meet On the Verge," Studio International, Dec 21, 2007, Cindi Di Marzo
"Let's Get Stitched: A radical take on an old art, 'Pricked' needles the traditional craft of embroidery,"
The Village Voice, Nov. 20, 2007, Leslie Camhi
"Bound to the Bingham Center: Pink Corset Book" and "An Interview with Artist Tamar Stone,"
Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, Newsletter, Issue 9, Spring 2006
"A Showcase of Clothing as Form," FiberArts, Web Exclusive Tamar Stone's Corset Books Photo Gallery
January/February 2006
"Making Books on Lingerie," Somerset Studio, July - August 2005
"The Bed Project" Dog Eared Magazine, Books Arts Gallery, A Journal of Book Arts
Issue 15, Big Books. October 2005
"The Art of Tamar Stone" Dog Eared Magazine, Books Arts Gallery, A Journal of Book Arts
Issue 7, Sculptural Books. October 2002
"your/my... insecurities are my limbs ..." Umbrella Magazine, Vol. 18, March 1995
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