About me
Statement
From 1980-2005, I used the ancient technique of knotted netting with resist-dyed linen or cotton threads.
The ikat and braided-resist processes separate color. They create ambiguous or floating values, something that happens through the white space breaks.
I used linen and cotton because they are intrinsically structural and can be both bleached and dyed. This knotted work comprised a series of ideas involving time & space metaphysics, and symbolism.
The elemental characteristic of this work was structural, without mass and weight, on the edge of being physically supportable, a structure of transparent weightlessness.
Structure was achieved through the use of lines that became planes, at times parallel and layered, at other times connecting and intersecting perpendiculars.
Since 2005 my work uses digital prints on cotton or organza, embroidered with silk floss and/or glass beads.
The work continues an earlier interest in spirals and mazes as well as my visualization of the cosmos.
Through the materials and processes I am interpreting celestial maps, starlight, and galaxies.
Much of this work uses a box format because it contrasts the concept of containment with the limitless expanse of outer space.
Biography
Rebecca Medel has a background in three-dimensional design and fiber art. Her B.F.A. degree in Environmental Design from Arizona State University informed her use of space-time as a central element in her work. Several years after receiving her undergraduate degree, Medel began fiber studies at Pacific Basin School of Textiles Arts, and Fiberworks, Center for the Textile Arts in Berkeley, California. It was at these schools that she learned two historical processes, ikat and knotted netting, that she was to use in creating her work for two and a half decades. The conceptual basis and development of her major professional works occurred during her graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she earned an M.F.A. in Art, Sculptural Fibers.
During her graduate education Medel developed a personal off-loom technique using the processes she learned in Berkeley to knot large structural multi-planed square grid nets with ikat and braid resist threads. These resist processes separated color and created ambiguous or floating values of color. Medel singled out the use of linen and cotton thread because they are intrinsically structural and can be both bleached and dyed. During the many years that Medel used these processes her work comprised a series of ideas involving time & space, metaphysics, and symbolism. The elemental characteristic of the work was an exploration of light through the grid structure, without mass and weight, on the edge of being physically supportable, and creating transparent weightlessness. Structure was achieved through the use of lines that became planes, at times parallel and layered, at other times connecting and intersecting perpendiculars; against the wall or coming out in relief. These structures supported other concurrent ideas that spoke of voids, of tensions and distortions, of universal symbolism and the beauty of mathematics through an underlying geometry and the use of such mathematical principles as Sacred Geometry, the Golden Proportion, and the Fibonacci series.
In 2005 Medel changed directions ending her work using the materials and techniques she had used for two and a half decades. However, she continues many of the themes of her netted work. These include the exploration of luminous light, the universal symbols of the spiral and the maze, and a personal visual interpretation of the universe and the phenomena of the cosmos. Although the work itself is not physically multi-dimensional, it implies dimensions through content. Medel now uses digitally printed images of her themes on opaque cotton or translucent organza, adding surface applications of embroidery with silk floss and glass beads to highlight her ideas.
Medel has exhibited her work in numerous solos, juried, and invitational shows throughout the world. Her work is in many private and public collections including the Denver Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Racine Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Stedelijik Museum, and others. Medel is a Fellow of the American Craft Council and has received many awards including several Mid-Atlantic Creative Artist Fellowships and National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowships, and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts.
Medel has taught at Tennessee Technological University, UCLA, University of North Texas and is a Professor Emeritus at Temple University, Tyler School of Art.
Rebecca Medel maintains a studio in Riverside, California.
C.V.
EDUCATION
1993-94 UC San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, California, 3D Alias Program
UCLA Extension Computer Graphic Center, Los Angeles, California, Graphic Design Programs
Art Center School of Design, Pasadena, California, 3D Alias & Graphic Design Programs
1979-82 University of California Los Angeles, M.F.A. Art
1972-73 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Art Specialist Teaching Certificate
1971-72 University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, Post Graduate Art Study
1965-70 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, B.F.A. Environmental Design
SUPPLEMENTARY STUDY
1978-79 Fiberworks Center for Textile Arts, Berkeley, California, Special Studies Certificate
1978 Ellie Fidler, Tapestry Weaver, Berkeley, California, Weaving and Dyeing Apprenticeship
1978 Pacific Basin Textile School, Berkeley, California, Special Studies
1976 Arcosanti, Cordes Junction, Arizona, Architectural Construction Workshop
1972 Tucson Art Museum School, Tucson, Arizona, Beginning and Intermediate Weaving
EMPLOYMENT
1995-2011 Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park & Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Area Head, Fibers and Material Studies, currently BProfessor Emeritus
1994-95 University of North Texas, School of Visual Arts, Denton, Texas
Lecturer
1991-94 Joshua Tree, California
Studio artist
1989-91 University of California Los Angeles, California
Department of Design, Lecturer
1983-88 Tennessee Technological University, Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, Tennessee
Assistant Professor, Head of Fibers
1981-83 Professor Susan Peterson, Hunter College, NYC, New York and Pasadena, California
Research Assistant
1979-81 University of California Los Angeles, California
Department of Design, Teaching Assistant
1979-81 Tomasello Fabric Showroom, Los Angeles, California
Assistant Manager
1979 Berkeley, California
Weaving Assistant to Yoshiko Wada
LECTURE • WORKSHOP • VISITING ARTIST • JURY PANELS
2005 Lecture / Visiting Artist, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
2004 Lecture: SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
Sponsored by: Friends of Fiber Art International
2003 Lecture: Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2002 Juror, Smithsonian Institution Craft Show 2003, Washington D.C.
2001 Juror: Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship in Crafts, Chicago, Illinois
American Craft Council Emerging Artist Grants, New York, New York
2000 Lecture: The Textile Arts Council of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1997 Lecture: SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
Sponsored by: Friends of Fiber Art International
1996 Workshop and Lecture
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Oklahoma Arts Institute, Quartz Mountain, Oklahoma
1995 Lecture: Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
1992 Lectures
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
San Diego State University, San Diego, California
State University of New York at Purchase, New York
1988 Workshop and Lecture: Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1986 Lectures
Penland School, Asheville, North Carolina
Textile Study Group, New York, New York
California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, California
San Jose State University, San Jose, California
American Center, Kyoto, Japan
City Center, Sapporo, Japan
1985 Visiting Artist University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, California
Racine Museum of Art, Racine, Wisconsin
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fondation Toms Pauli,, Lausanne, Switzerland, Pierre and Marguerite Magnenat Collection
Elvehjem Museum, Madison, Wisconsin
Musee Jean Lurcat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, Angers, France
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland
Musee de la Tapisserie, d'Aix-en-Provence, France
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
PRIVATE COMMISSIONS
2003-04 Private collector: Los Angeles, California, through Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999-2000 Private collector: St. Louis, Missouri, through Snyderman-Work Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1994-95 Private collector: St. Louis, Missouri, through Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1992-93 Private collector: Encino, California
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Celestial Intangibles, Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2003 Continuity and Change: New Works, Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1996 Recent Work, Brown/Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut
1992-93 Transcendental Constructs, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
1985 Threads In Space: An Environmental Installation, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
1991 Sky Windows, Bellas Artes Gallery, New York
1984 Kokoro, Maya Behn Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1987 Heath Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1986 Maya Behn Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
GROUP/INVITATIONAL/JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2013 Materials Hard and Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, Texas
2012 Craft Spoken Here, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Distinguished Educators Exhibition, Fiber Philadelphia, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
High Fiber, Recent Large Scale Acquisitions in Fiber, Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin
2011 Focus Fiber 2011-2012, Canton Museum of Art. Canton, Ohio (catalog), Juries
Sleight of Hand, Denver Art, Museum, Denver, Colorado
2010 Sessions, KCC Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Cut the Edge/Weave the Line/Textile Arts, Mobilia Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2008 Grid, Mobilia Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Beyond Boundaries, Contemporary Fiber Art, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
5th Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2007 Selections from the Contemporary Textile Collection, Denver Art Museum, Colorado
(Installation of Nierika, DAM acquisition: 2003)
Exhibition of their Collection: 1986-2006, La Tapisserie a Angers: Patrimoine et Creation, Angers, France
2006 Material Difference: Soft Sculpture and Wall Works, Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois, catalog
Art and Infinity, Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2005 5th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fiber: A New World View, National Gallery of the Irish Craft Council of Ireland, Kilkenny, Ireland
2004 SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
Representation: Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Blue, Mobilia Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
4th Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2003 SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
Representation: GrottaArts, Wilton, Connecticut
Transcending Process: Contemporary Fiber, Brookfield Craft Center, The Lynn Tendler Bignell Gallery, Brookfield, Connectcut
The Common Thread: Finding Fiber in Contemporary Art, Westport Arts Center, Westport, Connecticut
The Art of Containment, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey
2002 15th Anniversary, Part I, BrownGrotta Arts, Wilton, Connecticut, (catalog)
Small Works in Fiber (catalog)
LongHouse Reserve Ltd., East Hampton, New York
SOFA Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
A-POC AOYAMA, Issey Miyake’s Design Store, Tokyo, Japan
Fiber Survey 2002, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (catalog)
VII Triennale Internationale des Mini-Textiles, (catalog) Juried
Musee Jean Lurcat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, Angers, France, St. Gall Museum, Switzerland
2001 Form in Fiber: Transcending the Traditional, R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
The Beaded Prayers Project, Madison Municipal Building, Madison, Wisconsin
Fiberart International 2001, Society for Contemporary Craft
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, (catalog) Juried
2000 Made in California: 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, (catalog)
Surface-Strength-Structure: Pertaining to Line, Snyderman-Works Galleries Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (catalog)
St. Louis Collects: Contemporary American Craft, The Sheldon Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Biennial 2000: Art at the New Millennium, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois Representation: R. Duane Reed Gallery
1999 The 7th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Manoa Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii, (catalog) /traveling for two years to thirteen museums (2nd catalog)
SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois Representation: R. Duane Reed Gallery
Weaving The World, Contemporary Art of Linear Construction, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, (catalog)
The 20th Century Textile Artist: New Acquisitions, The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Focus on Fiber Art, R. Duane Reed Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Threads, Barbican Centre Concourse Gallery, London, England, (catalog)
1998 United States Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, Residence of Alexander Vershbow, Ambassador to NATO
Brussels, Belgium, Four-year loan: March, 1998 - March, 2001 (catalog)
SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, Representation: R. Duane Reed Gallery
Modus Operandi A Survey of Contemporary Fiber, Snyderman /The Works Gallery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Textiles of Scale, Montclair State University Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey (catalog)
SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York Representation: Brown/Grotta Gallery
Florida/Colombia Fibers, Florida State University Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida, Bogota, Medellin, and Calle, Colombia, (catalog)
Tom Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut
1997 The 10th Wave: Part I: New Baskets & Freestanding Fiber Sculpture (catalog): Brown/Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut
The 10th Wave: Part II: Textiles & Fiber Wall Sculpture (catalog): Brown/Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut
Perspectives: Contemporary Work in Textiles, Massillon Museum, Massillon, Ohio
Threads: Fiber Art in the 90s, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey
1996 SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois Representation: Brown/Grotta Gallery, The Wetsman Collection
Life Work Individual Expressions in Fiber, South Bay Center for the Arts, El Camino College Gallery, Torrance, California
Breaking Barriers: Recent American Craft, American Craft Museum, New York (catalog)
Miniartextil Como -Tra Mare e Terra, Studio Mimmo Totaro, Como, Italy (catalog) Juried
Breaking Barriers: Recent American Craft, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, Madison Art Center, Madison Wisconsin;
Albany Museum of Art, Albany, Georgia
Facets of Fiber, Texas Women’s University Gallery, Denton, Texas
1994 Arduous Happiness, Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Knots & Nets Universal Connection, Art Shows International, Sarasota, Florida, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, California (catalog)
1993 Fiber Sculpture, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1992 The New Narrative, North Carolina State University Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, (catalog)
Knots & Nets: Spiritual Connections, USIA traveling exhibition to Africa, (catalog)
Fiber Sculpture National, Nazareth College, Rochester, New York, Juried
The Dyer's Art, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, California, Juried
1991 Maya Behn Galerie, Zurich Switzerland
1990 Fascinatie Textiel, Museum Van Bommel-Van Dam, Venlo, Netherlands
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, California
Textile Arts Festival Exhibition, Salts Mill, Bradford, England
1989 Fiber Concepts, University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona (catalog)
1989 14th International Biennial of Tapestry, Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, (catalog) Juried
Gitter Und Netze, Bellerive Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
1988 Fibres et fils, Musee D'Art et D'Histoire, Belfort, France (catalog)
The Art of Craft, Textile Arts Centre, Chicago, Illinois
Mostly Black &White, Gayle Wilson Gallery, Southampton, New York
Knots & Nets, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, (catalog)
1987 Interlacing, American Craft Museum, New York
California Classics, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California
Masterworks, Gayle Wilson Gallery, Southampton, New York
Tennessee Technological University Evins Center Gallery, Smithville, Tennessee
1986 Poetry of the Physical, Inaugural Exhibition, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
traveling exhibit through U.S., (catalog)
Southern Arts Federation Fellowship Winners Traveling Exhibition in the Southeastern United States, (catalog)
Contemporary Fiber Art Exhibition, Slide Portion on American Fiber Art, Tapei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, (catalog)
1985 Maya Behn Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Softly Stated Spaces, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, New York
Focus/Galerie Patric Roy, Lausanne, Switzerland
5th International Triennale of Tapestry, Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland, (catalog), awarded Bronze Medal, Juried
Textile as Sculpture, 12th International Biennial of Tapestry, (catalog), Juried
Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Kunst Museum, Aalborg, Denmark
F15 Gallery, Moss, Norway
Likjevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
1984 Carol Hooberman Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Faculty Exhibit, Tennessee Technological University Art Gallery, Tennessee
Vehta Biennale, Romanesque Church at Vichte, West Flanders, Belgium, (catalog)
1984 The Presence of Light, The Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas, Modern Master Tapestries Gallery, New York, (catalog)
Six From the Fiber Biennial, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1983 Maya Behn Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1983 Fibre Espace, 11th International Biennial of Tapestry, Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, (catalog)
BIBLIOGRAPHY - BOOKS
Nets Through Time, The Technique and Art of Knotted Netting, Jacqueline Davidson, Maine Authors Publishing, Rockland, Maine, 2012: 140-143.
Craft & Concept: The Rematerialization of the Art Object, Matthew Kangas. Midmarch Arts Press, Seattle, New York, 2006 publication, Jacket cover photograph of 1000 Kannon detail, text pages 55, 180.
Weaving: A Handbook of the Fiber Arts, Third Edition, Shirley E. Held, Wadsworth Group/Thomson Learning, Belmont CT, 1999: 65.
Nouvel Objet III, Design House Publication, Seoul, Korea, 1997.
Textile Art, Michel Thomas, Rizzoli, NY, 1985: 223, 226.
BIBLIOGRAPHY - SELECTED ARTICLES: LAUSANNE BIENNIALS
14th Biennial, Lausanne, Switzerland
Deutsches Textilforum, Hannover, Germany, September, 1989: cover, 6-9
Le Courrier des Metiers D'Art, Paris, France, October 1989, Numero 86-6
Handwoven, May/June, 1990: 14
Tages-Anzeiger, Kultur, Zurich, Switzerland, July 7, 1989
Fiberarts, Asheville, North Carolina, November/December, 1989: 51
American Craft, New York, NY, October/November, 1989: 54-59
Textiel, Netherlands, September, 1989: 6-9
Textilkunst, Hannover, Germany, September, 1989: 115-117
Surface Design Journal, Oakland, CA, Fall, 1989: 14-21
12th Biennial, Lausanne, Switzerland
Le Courrier des Metiers D'Art, Paris, France, October, 1985: 4-5
Art Press, Lausanne, Switzerland, October, 1985
American Craft, New York, NY, October/November, 1985: 34
Fiberarts, Asheville, NC, November/December, 1985: 50-54
La Liberte, Friborg, Switzerland, June 29, 1985
Radio TV, Lausanne, Switzerland, June, 1985: 10-11
International Herald Tribune, Paris, France, Arts/Leisure, June 23, 1985
Shuttle, Spindle, Dyepot, Hartford, CT, Spring, 1986: 43
11th Biennial, Lausanne, Switzerland
American Craft, New York, NY, October/November, 1983: 2-6
Textile/Art 9, Paris, France, Autumn, 1983: 35-36
Shuttle, Spindle, Dyepot, Hartford, CT, September, 1983: 21
Deutsches Textilforum, Hannover, Germany, September, 1983: 15
Togesanzeiger, Zurich, Switzerland, July 14, 1983
Femina, Geneva, Switzerland, July 7, 1983: 16
Trends, Tokyo, Japan, April, 1984: 24
Projkt, Warsaw, Poland, 2'84/155: 16-22
BIBLIOGRAPHY - SELECTED GENERAL ARTICLES
2004 Shuttle, Spindle, & Dyepot, Suwanee, Georgia, Summer, 2004: 32-37
2003 American Craft, New York, New York, August/September 2003:74
The, Santa Fe’s Monthly magazine of the Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 2003: 65
Pasatiempo, The New Mexican, Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 23-29, 2003:6, 50-51
Fiberarts, Asheville, North Carolina, January, 2003: 49-52
2000 American Style, Baltimore, Maryland, Winter, 2000: 58-63
American Style, Baltimore, Maryland, Fall 2000: 53-60
Surface Design Journal, Fall 2000, 52-61
Surface Design Journal, Winter 2000: 38-42
American Style, Baltimore, Maryland, Winter 2000: 58-63
Fiberarts, Asheville, North Carolina, Mar/Apr 2000: 41-45
1999 Ryusei, Japan, no. 473, September 9, 1999: 21
British Crafts, January/February, 1999, London, England, no. 156, 63
1998 Textiel Plus, December, 1998, Woerden, Netherlands, no. 166, 42-43
Fiberarts, Asheville, North Carolina, Summer, 1998: 30-35
1993 American Craft, New York, NY, April/May, 1993: cover, 50-53, 66
1991 Fiberarts, Asheville, NC, September/October, 1991: 36-39
1990 Artweek, Oakland, CA, September 13, 1990: 15-16
Tallahassee Democrat, Tallahassee, Florida, October 12, 1990: 16D
1989 Hampton Chronicle News, Southhampton, NY, November 30, 1989: B1
1987 Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, GA, October, 1987
1986 Fiberarts, Asheville, NC, May/June, 1986: 50
1985 Fiberarts, Asheville, NC, March/April, 1985: 72-73
Grand Forks Herald, Spotlight Section D, Grand Forks, North Dakota, March 29, 1985
1984 Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich, Switzerland, Kultur, Mittwock, September 26, 1984
1983 Craft International, New York, NY & LA, CA, December, 1983: 37-38
BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS
Who's Who in American Art, 2012, 32nd edition
Who’s Who in the World, 25th edition, 2011
Who’s Who of American Women, 2010-11, 28th edition
Who’s Who in America, 2011
International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women
The World Who’s Who of Women
Who's Who of American Hispanics
HONORS AND AWARDS
2010 Aileen Osborn Webb Award, Fellow of the American Craft Council, New York
Dean’s Research Grant, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
2007 Individual Creative Artist Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
2005 Research Study Leave, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
2003 Pew Fellowship in the Arts GAP Grant, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Special Opportunity Stipend
2001 Fiberart International 2001 Josephine Cohen People’s Choice Award, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Individual Creative Artist Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
2000-01 Research Study Leave, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
2000 Jeanne A. McRight Award for Contemporary Art, Delaware Art Museum Biennial
1999 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1996 Faculty Research Grant, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
1988 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship
1986 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship
1985 Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship for Emerging Visual Artists
Bronze Medal, Triennial of Tapestry, Lodz, Poland
1980-81 Alfredo Orselli Memorial Scholarship, University of California Los Angeles
Graduate Advance Placement Program, University of California Los Angeles
President, Graduate Design Association, University of California Los Angeles
1979-81 California State Graduate Fellowship, University of California Los Angeles
1976 National Endowment for the Arts Scholarship to Arcosanti, Arizona
VIDEOS OF INTERVIEWS AND EXHIBITIONS
Modus Operandi: A Survey of Contemporary Fibers
Snyderman/Works Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
November, 1998
Group exhibition video
Contemporary American Fiber Artist Maker Profile
“Rebecca Medel: This leading American maker is seen in her studio working and talking about her ideas, inspiration and techniques”
A video by Graham Eccles & Irene Edwards
London, England, Odyssey Video, 1998, 2003 (update)
Solo video
Contemporary American Fiber Artists
Ten makers Working & Talking About Ideas & Techniques
A video by Graham Eccles & Irene Edwards
London, England, Odyssey Video, 1998
Group exhibition video
Visual Art s Center: NCSC Student Center
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
1992
Group exhibition video
Interview by Sandra Gottlieb for Art Around and Around: Scarsdale NY station 35, A Government Access Television
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
1992
Solo video
Kokoro
Galerie Maya Behn, Zurich, Switzerland
ein video von: Tula Roy und Christoph Wirsing, Berlin, Germany
Musik: Co Streiff, composer, Zurich, Switzerland
1985
Solo video