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