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Selected Exhibitions
2011
Quilt National, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, Ohio, Best of Show award
Rio Patchwork Design, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil
Color Improvisations, Museum of Modern Art, Verona, Italy
Chance Encounters, Lynnwood Convention Center, Lynnwood, Washington
Oregon: State of Diversity, Heritage Station Museum, Pendelton, Oregon
2010
Color Improvisations, Haus der Wirtschaft, Stuttgart, Germany
Interpretations 2009, Visions Art Quilt Gallery, San Diego, California
Text, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland Oregon
2009
Quilt National, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, Ohio
Form, not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie, Carnegie Center for Art and History, New Albany, Indiana
Line Dance:  New Work by High Fiber Diet, Umpqua Valley Art Center, Roseburg, Oregon
2008
10th Northwest Contemporary Art Quilt Invitational, American Art Company, Tacoma, Washington
Fourth Annual Fiber Arts Festival & Fiber Show, Sixth Street Gallery, Vancouver, Washington
The Quilted Surface IV, Ross Art Museum, Delaware, Ohio
2007
Evolution of the Art Quilt, Washington State Historical Museum, Tacoma, Washington
Simple Elegance: High Fiber Diet Art Exhibit, Japanese Garden, Portland, Oregon
Hands at Work: Textiles from the Columbia Stitchery Guild, Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Portland, Oregon
2006
Alaska Fiber Festival, Anchorage, Alaska
2002
The Quilted Surface, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio and Palais Rastede, Oldenburg, Germany
2000
The Artist as Quilt Maker IX, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, Ohio
1999
Earth, Fire and Fibre XXII, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska
Forest Products, Snow City Café, Anchorage, Alaska
When Women Work Together, Snow City Café, Anchorage, Alaska
1998
Handwerk: Quilts and Fabric Art by Bonnie M. Bucknam, Ptarmigan Arts Gallery & Studios, Homer, Alaska
Quilts by Bonnie M. Bucknam, Snow City Café, Anchorage, Alaska
1997
Work of Our Hands: Art Quilt Network North, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, Alaska
Invitational 1997, Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, Ohio
Earth, Fire and Fibre XXI, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska
1996
Visions: Quilt Art, San Diego Museum of History & Art, San Diego, California
Improvisations, The Gallery at Studio B, Lancaster, Ohio
• Spring Quilt Market exhibit of quilts from Roberta Horton’s An Amish Adventure, Portland, Oregon
Earth, Fire and Fibre XXI, Anchorage Museum of History & Art, Anchorage, Alaska
Go Figure, Campus Center Gallery, University of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska
1995
Quilts:  Stitching a New Tradition, four-artist show with Pat Sims, Susan Schapira, and Linda Farr, Anchorage Museum of History & Art, Anchorage, Alaska
Small Wonders:  Embellished Mini Quilts, Embellishment International Bead and Button Show, Netherlands Congress Center, The Hague, Holland.
Earth, Fire and Fibre XX, Honorable Mention, Anchorage Museum of History & Art, Anchorage, Alaska
1994
• Oil, University of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska
1993
Earth, Fire and Fibre XIX, Anchorage Museum of History & Art, Anchorage, Alaska
1992
Story Quilts, New Pieces Gallery, Berkeley, California. (show of selected quilts from Mary Mashuta's book, Story Quilts: Telling Your Tale in Fabric)
Hearts and Hands, Quilt Festival Tokyo, Japan
1991
American Quilter's Society Show, Paducah, Kentucky
Earth Fire Fibre XVIII, Anchorage Museum of History & Art, Anchorage, Alaska
1990
• Visions:  Quilts of a New Decade, San Diego Museum of History & Art, San Diego, California
1989
One of a Kind Quilts, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska
Earth, Fire and Fibre XVII, Honorable Mention, Anchorage Museum of History & Art, Anchorage, Alaska
1987
Quilt National 1987, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, Ohio
American Quilter's Society Show, Paducah, Kentucky
1980
Quilts in Women's Lives, University of California at Santa Barbara Women's Center Museum, Santa Barbara, California

Artwork published in books & periodicals (selected)
Quilt National 2011: The Best of Contemporary Quilts, Lark Books & The Dairy Barn Arts Center (Lark Books 2011), page 42.
• Quilt National 2009: The Best of Contemporary Quilts, Lark Books & The Dairy Barn Arts Center (Lark Books 2009), page 40.
• Contemporary QuiltArt Association: 20th Anniversary, (Contemporary QuiltArt Association 2008), photo on page 168.
Quilting As An Art Form, by Naomi Warren Klouda in Art/Quilt Magazine, Issue 8, 1997, feature article with photos on pages 42-43.
Visions: Quilt Art, Janet Rogers, ed. (Quilt San Diego, C&T Publishing, 1996).
• An Amish Adventure: A Workbook for Color in Quilts, Roberta Horton (2nd Edition, C&T Publishing, 1996), photo on page 40.
• Story Quilts:  Telling Your Tale in Fabric , Mary Mashuta (C&T Publishing 1992), work shown and discussed on pages 21, 45, 56. 62, 66-67, 79.
• Hearts & Hands, Vol. 1, (Hearts & Hands, 1992, Japan)
• Award-Winning Quilts and Their Makers, Vol. II:  The Best of American Quilter's Society Shows 1988 - 1989, Victoria Faoro, Ed. ( American Quilter's Society 1992), page 160-161.
• Lady's Circle Patchwork Quilts, (Lopez Publications), work shown in Jan/Feb 1992, pages 46-48; March/April, pages 10, 40-41; May/June, page 74.
Visions:  Quilts of a New Decade, Deborah Bird Timby, ed. (C&T Publishing 1990), page 51.
Fit to be Tied, Judy Hopkins (That Patchwork Place, 1990), page 66.
Creative American Quilting, Better Homes & Gardens (1989), page 247.
One of a Kind Quilts, Judy Hopkins (That Patchwork Place 1989), cover photo and page 42.
Fiber Expressions:  The Contemporary Quilt, Quilt National (Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 1987), page 15.

Publications
• "Where We Live," Quilts Japan, January 1995

Awards
Best of Show, Quilt National 2011, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, Ohio, 2011
Viewer's Choice Award, Rio Patchwork Design 2011, Rio de Janeiro, 2011
• Artist Development Grant, Alaska State Council on the Arts, 2001
Honorable Mention, Earth, Fire and Fibre XX,  Anchorage Museum of History & Art, Anchorage, Alaska, 1995
• Honorable Mention, Earth, Fire and Fibre XVII, Anchorage Museum of History & Art, Anchorage, Alaska, 1989
• 3rd Place, Professional Wall Quilt Category, American Quilter's Society Show, Paducah, Kentucky, 1989

Public Collections
• State of Alaska Art Bank
• Sand Lake Elementary School, Anchorage, Alaska

Education
1980-1981 Anchorage Community College and University of Alaska, Anchorage.  Emphasis: Law Science
1972-1975 California State University, Long Beach. Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, June 1975. Major: Anthropology, Minor: Geology
1969-1973 Long Beach City College, Long Beach, California. Main courses of study:  Art and anthropology
1969 Art Center College of Design



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