Education

BFA with Honors, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 1970

Honors and Awards

Luis A. Guendelman Award to Outstanding Tehiyah Teacher
1976 Fulbright-Hays Scholarship for study in West Africa
1975 CETA Artist
1974 Grant from DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA

One Woman Shows

1988-1990 Kurland/Summers Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca
1973-1992 Julie Artisans Gallery, New York City, NY, & Obiko, San Fransico, CA
1982- Mobilia, Cambridge, MA
1979-Palo Alto Cultural Center, "African Influence"

Selected Group Shows

2022
Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA, "The Wild Side"
O'Hanion Gallery, Marin, CA, Online Exhibit "Red"
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, "Right Here, Right Now"

2021
Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA, "50/50"

2020
Abrams Claghom Gallery, Albany, CA, "The Ground Upon Which We Stand"

2019
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, "Off the Wall, American Art to Wear"

2017
MAD Museum of Art and Design, NYC, NY
"Counter-Couture: Fashioning Identity in the American Counter Culture"

2015
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, "Counter-Couture: Fashioning Identity in the American Counter Culture"
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, "Body as Agent"

2014
San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, "Metamorphosis"

2007
Gallery Gen, New York, NY,"Woolen Magic"

2006
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, "Wear Art…Now and Then", "Joy" was featured on shoe announcement and 40' banner

2005
Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, "Artwear, Fashion, Anti-Fashion"
Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, "Kimono Variations
Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens, Ohio, "Quilt National"
Surface Design, Kansas City, KS, "Taking Flight"
UC Davis Design Museum, Davis, CA, "Cut, Slash, Burn"
St. Martin's College of Art and Design, London, England, "Fashions Memory"

2003
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, "Iconic to Iconic: Fashioning California Identity"
Julie Artisans Gallery, New York, NY, "Thirty Year Retrospective, Artwear"

2001
San Jose Museum of Quilts, San Jose, CA, "Kimono Kinship"

1999-2000
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, "Made in California, Art, Image, Identity 1999-2000"

1999
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA

1996
The Textile Art Museum, Washington DC, "Kimono Inspiration"

1994
Julie Artisans Show, New York City, "Twenty Year Anniversary Show", NY, "Twenty Year Anniversary Show"

1992
American Crafts Museum,, New York City, NY, " A Decade of Crafts, Recent Acquisitions"
American Crafts Museum, New York City, NY, "Crafts USA (continuing European tour), and "Wearables"
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, "Out and About Art"
The Navy Pier, (represented by Mobilia Gallery), Chicago, IL "International New Art Forms Exposition"
Sun Gallery, Hayward,CA, "Off the Wall"
Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, "Celebration of the Nude"

1991
Crochet Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA, 'Art Wearables"


1990
Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus Ohio, "Computer Art"
The Art Ginza Space, Tokyo, Japan: Gulbenkian Museum,Lisbon, Portugal, (Sponsored by Whittenborn-Hollingsworth ,"Art Forms and the Body"
American Crafts Museum, New York, NY, "Wearables"
American Crafts Museum, New York, NY, (traveling show), Europe, "Crafts USA" (1990-1994)
Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA, "Elements os Design"
The Hand and the Spirit Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, "Art to Wear"

1989
Kurland/Summers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Artwear"
Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY

1988
Hibberd McGrath Gallery, Breckenridge, CO, "Group Exhibit"
Design Museum, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, "Group Exhibit"
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, "Group Exhibit"

1987
Cleveland Center or Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, "Group Exhibit"
Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH, "Group Exhibit"
The Textile Council of the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN, "Group Exhibit

1986
Redding Museum and Art Center, Redding, CA, "Group Exhibit"

1984-1986
USIS (United States Information Service) sponsored an Art to Wear Show that travelled to 8 Asian countries)
  Publicity poster and Catalog cover were images of Janet Lipkin's Artwear

1985
Obiko, San Francisco, CA & NYC (Bergdorf Goodmans), Winter collection shown at Bergdorfs; Spring collection at the "Galleria":
"Two Woman Show" and Window at Bergdorf Goodman
Cambridge Art Council, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, "Threads"
California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA, "Bay Area Art to Wear"
Fashion Group, Hearst Theater, San Francisco Modern Museum, San Francisco, CA, "Art to Wear"
Janis Studio, Chicago, IL, "Art to Wear"
International Gallery, San Diego, CA, "The Body Adorned"

1983-1985
American Crafts Museum, New York, NY, Travelling Show, Ohio, Louisiana, Maryland, Rhode Island, Arizona, West Virginia, Michigan, California, Wisconsin

1984
Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR, "Group Show"
Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, "Group Show"
Fiberworks, Berkeley, Ca, "Group Show

1983
American Crafts Museum, New York,NY
The Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Fashion Group, San Francisco, CA
Bernaka Artisan Boutique & Gallery, Coconut Grove, FL
Fiberworks, Berkeley, CA
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
San Jose Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA

1982
Pacific Basin School of Textiles, Berkeley, CA

1982
Convergence, Seattle, WA
Carol Hooberman Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Gayle Wilson Gallery, South Hampton, NY
Au Courant, Ketchem, ID
Michael Himovitz Gallery, Carmichael, CA
Van Duson Green, Encino, CA

1981
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (Muriel Newman's collection)
Barbara Gilman Gallery, Miami, FL
Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Au Courant, Ketchum, ID
80 Landston Street, San Francisco, CA
Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
Asian Art to Wear, La Jolla, CA
Meyer Brier Weiss, San Francisco, CA

1979
United States State Department, Washington DC, "African Influence"

1977
USIS (United States information Service), Accra, Ghana, Africa

1976
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, "Body Costume"
Academy of Sciences, Wattis Hall of Man, San Francisco, CA, Painting of Mexican Costumes

1974
Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA
Oakland Museum, "Body Wear: Clothing as an Art Form", Oakland CA
Fairtree Gallery, New York, NY

Published Works

Books

2021
Off the Wall, American Art to Wear, Yale University Press, New Haven and London

2012
Textiles, Mary Schoeser, Thames & Hudson

2008
Knitting Art, (150 innovative works, from 18 contemporary artists), Searle, Voyageur Press

2007
Craft in America, Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton, Random House

2005
Artwear, Fashion, Anti-Fashion, Melissa Leventon, Thames & Hudson Quilt National, Lark Books

1999
Made in California, Art, Image, Identity 1900-2000, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA

1997
Who's Who of American Women, 20th edition

1996
The Kimono Inspiration- Art + Art-to-Wear in America, Textile Museum

1987
California Designers, Douglass Bullis, Peregrine Smith Books

1986
Art to Wear, Julie Schafler-Dale, Abbeville Press

1975
The Crocheter's Art, Del Pitt Feldman, Doubleday
Crochet, (Sunset Book), Lane Publishing
Creative Crochet, Nikki Edson and Arlene Stimmel, Watson-Guptill
Weaving, Shirley E. Held, Holt, Rinehart and Winston

1972
Crochet: Discovery and Design, Del Pitt Feldman
Articles

1975-1997
Fiberarts, Vol.22, Nov. 5 1996, (feature article); Surface Design, (cover), Vol.13, No. 1, Fall 1988; Surface Design Assn. chose to reproduce postcards; Ornament, Vol. 12, No 3, Spring 1989 (feature article); New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Daily California, Vogue, Seventeen, Women's Wear Daily, Newark Star Ledger, San Francisco Chronicle, Miami Tribune, Berkeley Monthly, Lobe' Special Report, Pennisula Times-Tribune, Time Magazine, Contra Costa Times, United Airlines Magazine

Collections

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA,
Museum of Design and Art, New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Sheridan College od Art and Design, Ontario, Canada
Westinghouse Museum, Pittsburg, PA
Merton Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Julie Schafler-Dale (Julie Artisans Gallery), Private Collection
Private Collections in Europe, Canada, Ghana, Africa, and the United States

Television

KQED, TV documentary, "Artwear, The Body Adorned", aired locally and nationally
People Are Talking, Channel 4, San Francisco, "Art & Fashion", four person show

Selected Workshops

2001-2016
Pleiades Palette Art Camp for Girls, (Co-owner with Laura Raboff)

1994
Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA, "Surface Design"

1993
Ball State University, Muncie IN, "Women's Day"
Sewing Workshop, San Francisco, CA

1980-1991
Valley Stitches Weaving Guild, Fresno, CA
Fresno Fiber Guild, Mendocino, CA
Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA
Sacramento Weaving Guild, Sacramento, CA
Selected Lectures
Ball State University, San Francisco State University, San Francisco City College, Northern California Weaving Guild, Sacramento Weaving guild, Valley Stitches Weaving Guild, Mendocino Art Center, Napa Art Wear Guild, Sewing Workshop (San Francisco), Museum of Quilts and Textiles,(San Jose)