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CONDENSED RESUME
1939 Framingham, Massachusetts
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I.
Red Cinder Creativity Center, Na'alehu, Hawaii 2006
Djerassi Artists Residency Program, Woodside, CA 1997
Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA: Residency 1997
Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY: Residency 1992
Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX: Studio Residencies 1987, 1989
2007 - Images of Compassion, Magpie Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999, 2001 - Window installations, Fenix Gallery, Taos, NM
1994 - 1995 - Traveling Survey Exhibition
Sas Colby: Twenty Years of Book Thinking The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Mills College, Prieto Gallery, Oakland, CA; Aura Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1986 - The Photographers' Gallery London, England
1983 - Bookworks, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
1982 - Books and Snapshots, CAState University, Fresno, CA
1979 - Meyer, Breier and Weiss San Francisco
1978 - The Gargoyle Aspen, Colorado
1972 - The Egg and The Eye Los Angeles
1971 - Scarabaeus New York
2006/07 - The Book As Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
2006 - Juried Paper Works Exhibition, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN
2005 - 30th Anniversary Broadside Exhibition, Center for Book Arts, New York
National Members Juried Exhibition, Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Springs, MD
2005 - Collaboration as a Medium: 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Pyramid Atlantic at Pepco Edison Gallery, Washington, DC
2004 - On-line exhibition: www.pursestories.com. Gallery: Suitcases by Sas Colby
2003 - Insomnia, Landscapes of the Night, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
The Art of the Book of the Southwest, Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM
2002 - Revealing the Mysteries, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco
2000 - Learning Curve, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco
1999 - Word/Image: Image/Word, Harwood Museum of the Univ. of N. M., Taos, NM
1998 - Boundless: Sculptural Books from the 1970s, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco
Textiles/Fibers/Threads: The Book Show Center for the Book Arts, New York
1996 - Mostra 96 Museo ItaloAmericano, San Francisco
Women Artists on the Day of the Dead, The Mayans Gallery Ltd., Santa Fe, NM
Mysterious Worlds Center for Book Arts, New York
Science Imagined Berekeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
One of a Kind: Artist's Books USIS Traelling Exhibition, Asia and South America
1995 - Book Metamorphosis, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Mass.
Museum for a New Century, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
1993, 94, 95 - The Book As Art The Edith Lambert Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1992-94 - New Painted Books, The Fenix Gallery, Taos, NM
Books As Art IV, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
1991 - Books As Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Boundless Vision, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
Photographic Book Art in the United States, University of TX at San Antonio, TX
Bay Area Bookmaking, CACollege of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1991-92 - Cross Currents Traveling Exhibition, University of CA at Santa Barbara
The Book and Print Show, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia and the Queensland State Library, Brisbane, Australia
1990 - Oakland Photographers '90 Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Beyond Words, Craft & Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
1987 - A Sense of Humor, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Artists' Books USA, U.S.I.S. Traveling Exhibition, India
1986 - The Photographic Book, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1985 - Livre d'Artistes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Alternatives '85 University of Ohio, Athens, Ohio
1985 - Artist's Postage Stamps, Museum for Moderne Kunst, Weddell, Germany
1984 - Book Works, Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, CA
Center for Book Arts 10th Anniversary New York
1982 - Gallery Miyazaki Osaka, Japan
Biennale de Paris, Australian Embassy, Paris, France
Copy Cat, Franklin Furnace, New York
1981 - Three Artist's Books, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York
1980 - International Artist's Books Show, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
1979 - The Book As Art III, The Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC
1977 - CACrafts X Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1974 - Bed and Board DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Baroque '74 Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York
1973 - Fairtree Crafts Gallery, New York
The National Gallery of Australia Canberra, Australia
The National Museum of Women in the Arts Washington, DC
The Bibliotheque Nationale Paris, France
Rene and Veronica Di Rosa Foundation St. Helena, CA
The Oakland Museum Oakland, CA
The Harwood Museum Taos, NM
Mills College Center for the Book Oakland, CA
Electrografia Museo Internacional Cuenca, Spain
Jean Brown Archive/Getty Trust Santa Monica, CA
Swedish Archive of Artists' Books Malmo, Sweden
The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive Miami, FL
McGill University Rare Book Library Montreal, Canada
The University of Manitoba Manitoba, Canada
Private Collections in U.S. and Europe
1993 - present: Independent workshops on Mixed Media Art in Taos, New Mexico, France and Spain
1998 - University of Massachusetts, Summer Institute, Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Art New England, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
1997 - Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, Washington
Asian Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, lecture
Libros: Metaphor and Meaning in Artists Books with Christine Hemp, Santa Fe, NM
John F. Kennedy University, Arts & Consciousness Dept., Berkeley, CA
1996 - Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO
International Center of Photography, New York
1995 - Speaker, James Renwick Alliance, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Keynote Speaker, Colorado Art Education Association Conference, Breckenridge, CO
Speaker, Studio Art Quilt Associates Conference, Arrowmont School, Gatlinburg, TN
Lecture, Center for the Book, Mills College, Oakland, CA
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
1994-95 - Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY, with Susan Seddon Boulet
1994- -Graduate Seminar, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Lecture, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1994 - Lecture, The Museum School, Boston, MA
Workshop, Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ
1993 - Split Rock Arts Program, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
1993 - Lecture, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Workshop, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1992 - Visiting Artist, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana
1991 - Visiting Artist, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
1991 - Visiting Artist, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Visiting Artist, Canberra Institute of the Arts, Canberra, Australia
Workshop, Queensland Art Teachers Association, Brisbane, Australia
Workshop, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1991, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04 - Artist's Books Workshop, Taos Institute of the Arts, Taos, NM
1988 - Members Workshop, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco
1976-77 - Workshop, Volcano Art Center, Volcano, Hawaii
1977 - Workshop, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
1973, 74, 75, 76, 78, 82, 88, 89, 94 - The Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CN
1978, 87, 89, 90 - Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
1982, 89, 91, 95 - Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
1978, 79, 81, 82, 89, 90, 91, 93, 96 - Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
1984, 87, 89 - Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX
1990, 91, 92, 95, 00 - Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD
1995, 98, 03 - Art New England, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Freeman-Zachary, Rice, LIVING THE CREATIVE LIFE, North Light Books, Cincinatti, OH, 2007
Aldridge, Adele and Harms, Valerie, Ed. CELEBRATIONS, Magic Circle Press, Westport, CT, 1973.
Balsamo, Dean. "Gallery Hopping," New Mexican, "Pasatiempo," March 11, 1994
Bassin, Joan. "The Mail Species," Kansas City, April 1979, p. 40.
Clark, Virginia. "Taos News Diary" A Chronicle of Local Life, The Taos News, Tempo, Taos, NM, August 22, 2002, p. 16
Courtney, Cathy. SPEAKING OF BOOK ART, Anderson Lovelace Publishers, Los Altos Hills, CA., 1999 p. 70-83.
Curtis, Cathy. "Connecting Fragile Thoughts," Artweek, April 10, 1982, p. 16.
Franklin V, Benjamin, Ed. RECOLLECTIONS OF ANAIS NIN, Ohio University Press, Athens, OH. 1996, p. 108-112.
Freeman-Zachary, Rice, "Juxtaposed Objects Reverberate," Somerset Studio, Nov-Dec. 2004.
Golden, Alisa, UNIQUE HANDMADE BOOKS, Sterling Publising Co., Inc., New York, 2001, pp.8, 79, 80, 157.
Greenwood, Phaedra. "Face in the Mirror," The Taos News, Tempo, Taos, NM, July 26, 2001, p. 15-17.
Hemp, Christine. "The Book As Art," THE Magazine, Santa Fe, NM, April 1994, p. 51, and April 1995, p. 55.
Kossy, Barbara. "The Story of X," Express, July 6, 1984, p. 18.
Kropper, Jean, HANDMADE CARDS AND BOOKS, Davis Publications, Worcester, MA, 1997
Laliberte, Norman. MASKS, FACE COVERINGS AND HEAD GEAR, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY, 1973.
Laliberte, Norman. ART IN BOXES, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY, 1974.
Lewis, Jo-Ann. "Galleries," The Washington Post, March 17, 1979, p. B-7.
Lippard, Lucy. MIXED BLESSINGS, Parthenon Books, NY, 1990, p. 232
Lloyd, Ginny. BLITZKUNST, Kretschmer & Grossman, Frankfurt, Germany, 1983.
Malarcher, Patricia. "Sas Colby: New Painted Books," Fiberarts, June 1995, p. 20.
Nin, Anais. VOLUME SEVEN, THE DIARY OF ANAIS NIN, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, NY, 1982, p. 216.
Pixley, Jennifer Craig. "Artists' Books and the Book Arts in Maine," Preview!, July 19, 1991, p. 8.
Roth, Moira, Ed. CONNECTING CONVERSATIONS, Eucalyptus Press, Oakland, CA, 1987, pp. 36-42.
Smith, Christie. "Revealing Masks," The East Bay Guardian, May 1991, p. 26.
Talley, Charles. "Sas Colby," Fiberarts, Sept.-Oct. 1981, pp. 29-31.
Tamblyn, Christine. "Women Recording Themselves," Artweek, April 16, 1988.
Tompkins, Calvin. "The Art World," The New Yorker, January 25, 1982, p. 75. Print Collector's Newsletter, September-October 1979, p. 131.
Selected Textile Bibliography
Aiken, Joyce and Laury, Jean Ray. CREATING BODY COVERINGS, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY, 1973.
Chase, Pattie. THE CONTEMPORARY QUILT, E.P. Dutton, NY, 1978.
Fanning, Robbie and Tony. THE COMPLETE BOOK OF MACHINE QUILTING, Chilton, Radnor, PA, 1980.
James, Michael. THE QUILTMAKER'S HANDBOOK, Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood, VCliffs, NJ, 1978.
Meilach, Dona Z. CREATING ART FROM FIBERS & FABRICS, Henry Regnery, Chicago, IL, 1972.
Newman, Thelma and Jay Hartley. THE CONTAINER BOOK, Crown Publishers, Inc., NY, 1977.
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