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ABOUT
Sheri Schumacher is a textile-based artist and designer. Her studio practice explores narratives about cultural landscapes and records a sense of place through observation and material investigation. Informed by relationships between interior and exterior conditions, her textiles move beyond being just a cloth surface and become a space with defining enclosure systems such as boundaries, edge and territory.
Discovery through the act of making is integral to her work, finding beauty in imperfection from discarded garments and linens with a history of use. The repurposed cloth provides a site for conversation between surface and support, intention and unpredictability and resistance and fragility. Dialogue with the cloth’s tendencies is explored through hand sewing, piecing and mending, a choreography between maker and material.
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Experience | education
Associate Professor Emerita, Interior Architecture, Auburn University School of Architecture, Auburn, AL
MFA 3D Design, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
EXHIBITIONS
upcoming 2025, Onna House, invitational textile exhibit — East Hampton, NY
upcoming 2026, Wiregrass Museum of Art, invitational textile exhibit — Dothan, AL
upcoming 2026, Santa Cruz Art League, ‘Back and Forth’ invitational exhibit — Santa Cruz, CA
Signature Contemporary Craft Gallery, invitational exhibition ‘Wall to Wall’ and representation — Atlanta, GA
Hoover Public Library Galleries, solo exhibition ‘Cultural Landscapes’ — Birmingham, AL
International Quilt Festival, invitational exhibition ‘Structure & Solidity’ — Houston, TX
Shelby County Arts Center, invitational exhibition ‘Stories: Repeat after me’ — Columbiana, AL
QuiltCon International Modern Quilt, juried exhibition 'Resilience’ — Atlanta, GA
Harvest Roots Ferments, solo exhibition ‘Cloth Fieldwork’ — Birmingham, AL
Gadsden Museum of Art, solo exhibition ‘Spatial Dualities in Cloth’ — Gadsden, AL
Usak Museum of Archeology, invitational exhibition ‘Blended’ — Usak, Turkey
Kyoto Shibori Museum, invitational exhibition ‘Blended’ — Kyoto, Japan
Carnegie Visual Arts Center, duo exhibition ‘Material Surroundings’ — Decatur, AL
Kyoto International Community House, invitational exhibition ‘Ongoing Conversation: Recall, Recollect, and Reconstruct’ — Kyoto, Japan
Wiregrass Museum of Art, solo exhibition ‘Textile | Assemblage | Place’ — Dothan, AL
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, juried exhibition ‘Alabama Cityscape’, ‘Blue Fields’, ‘Margins’ — Montgomery, AL
QuiltCon International Modern Quilt, juried exhibition, 'Alabama Cityscape' and ‘Homage to Malevich’ — Pasadena, CA
New Legacies, juried exhibition ‘Cultivated Ground’ — Ft Collins, CO
collections | Commissions
GWCC/Signia Hilton, Atlanta, GA — ‘Coastal Plain Threshold I and II’ wall textiles
Heitz Winery, St. Helena, CA — ‘Nuance’ wall textile
Harpeth Barn residence, Nashville, TN — ‘Harpeth’ wall textile and ‘Headwaters’ quilt
Montana residence — ’Drawing the Horizon’ wall textile
Alabama Gulf State Park cottages — ‘Coastal Plain Series’ 11 wall quilts
Awards
Chuck Whitehead Award and Foy Gilmore Goodwyn Memorial Fund Award — textile works
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL
Alabama State Council On The Arts — Community Arts Grant, two Design Fellowships
Articles
https://createwhimsy.com/projects/spotlight-sheri-schumacher-textile-artist/
https://newsouthfinds.com/sheri-schumacher/
https://wiregrassmuseum.org/get-to-know-artist-sheri-schumacher