RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2009
Fiber Invitational, Iowa Artisans Gallery, Iowa City, IA
Surface Matters, SDA Members' Exhibition, Kansas City, MO
Art Quilt Invitational, four-person show at Olson-Larson Gallery, West Des Moines, IA
2008
Craft USA 2008, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
Art Quilt Elements, Wayne, PA
9th Quilt Nihon Exhibition, Japan, Touring Exhibition, Nihon Vogue-Sha Co. Ltd Award. This show will visit the Quilt Art Study Center, Lincoln, NE, in 2009
Form Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie, New Harmony, IN
Art Quilt Invitional, Earlville Opera House Gallery, Earlville, NY, group art quilt exhibition
2007
Quilt National ’07, Athens OH: A Momentary Place was chosen for this show.
Astrid Hilger Bennett, Brian Roberts & Joel Smith, Quad City Arts, Rock Island IA
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY, Best of Show award
Quilts: Fiber for Thought, Plains Art Museum, Fargo ND
2006
Showcase: An Exhibition by Surface Design Association Representatives, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
12th Biennial Artist as Quiltmaker Exhibition, FAVA, Oberlin OH, Innovation Award
2005
Iowa Crafts 37, MacNider Museum, Mason City IA Jurors’ Special Mention, fiber
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Morrisville NY
Uncovering the Surface, Surface Design Association Members’ Exhibition
Midpoint, Kansas City MO
Crafts National 39, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University
Sacred Threads, Reynoldsburg OH
2004
Crafts National 38, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University
Penland Instructors’ Exhibition, Galleries Downtown, Iowa City IA
2003
Master Quilts Past & Present: Preserving the Voice of America’s Quiltmakers, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College IA
Large Works, Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids IA
Iowa Craft: 36, MacNider Museum, Mason City, IA Second Award, Fiber
Fiber Focus 2003, Art St Louis, St Louis MO
Constants & Variables, SDA Membership Exhibition, Kansas City MO
Art Quilts at the Sedgwick, Philadelphia PA
Works by Astrid Hilger Bennett & Connie Roberts, Rochester Art Center MN
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Charles H. MacNider Museum of Art, Mason City, IA
2000 Playclothes, collaborative theme clothing, with Connie Roberts, Arts Iowa City, IA
1997 Arts on Grand, Spencer, IA
1996 Iowa City Senior Center, Iowa City, IA
1996 Luther College, Decorah, IA
1994 Earlham College, Richmond, IN
1993 University of Iowa, Mabie Theatre Building, Iowa City, IA
1993 Cedar Falls Civic Center, Cedar Falls IA
1993 Iowa Wesleyan College, Mt. Pleasant, IA
1991 Art Guild of Burlington, Burlington, IA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics’ Project Art; Henry Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa; Indiana University at Gary; Iowa City Public Library: Kirkwood Community College
PUBLICATIONS
2010 Quilting Arts, February-March issue, Featured Artist Profile
Alliance for American Quilters’ has an oral history of Astrid’s work as part of the SOS (“Save our Stories”) on their website, www.centerforthequilt.org
Fiberarts Design Book VI (1999): The India Cafe was used as the cover illustration and Three Conversations was used on the endpapers of Fiberarts Design Book VII.
2000 East Meets West in an Iowa Cornfield, Fiberarts, about the University of Iowa’s papermaking facility at Oakdale
1998 Profile of Mary Merkel-Hess, American Craft magazine
1997 Carmon Slater, review in Surface Design
1993 David Dahlquist: Public Art, Ceramics Monthly,
1993 Informed Sources, Surface Design Journal
1993 Finding Art in the Inner Details, profile of book conservator Pamela Spitzmueller, Iowa Woman
1993 Contemporary African Batik; Marie-Lure Ille (two reviews) Fiberarts
EDUCATION
BFA in Printmaking, Indiana University (1975)
Additional coursework: College of Wooster, OH: Rhode Island School of Design; Penland School of Crafts; University of Iowa