RECENT EXHIBITIONS

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

Plains Art Museum, Fargo ND, group art quilt exhibition

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

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 ArtHenry Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa; Indiana University at Gary; Iowa City Public Library: Kirkwood Community College

PUBLICATIONS

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.

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