Education:

BA Studio Art, San Jose State University, 2009, Summa Cum Laude
BA Speech Pathology & Audiology, San Jose State University, 1982

Exhibits

San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, Lines, Angles & Spaces. 3 Woman show of architectural quilts.

October -November, 2016

Featured Artist, Morgan Hill 10th Anniversary Quilt and Fibers Arts Show, 2013
Artist in Residence, Empty Spools, Asilomar, California, May, 2012
Solo Gallery Exhibition; San Jose State University, San Jose, California, October, 2010
Exhibition in the Office of the President, San Jose State University, San Jose, California,

November, 2010-May, 2011

Juried:

Art Show Case: Carnegie Art Center, Turlock, July-August, 2020. Pear Still Life, Award of Merit
Junctures: San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. October 20-November 26, 2017
Art Quilts-Works by Members of Studio Art Quilt Associates. California Heritage Museum,

December 9, 2017-March 18, 2018. Carnegie Arts Center April 5-May 27, 2018.

Concrete & Grasslands: Studio Art Quilt Associates. Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, OR.

June 10-July 29, 2016. Will tour England and Ireland in Fall 2017.

California Inspirations II: Studio Art Quilt Associates, SJ Quilt Museum May-July 2016, Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA October-November 2016
Maloof Foundation and Craft in America, California Handmade: State of the Arts, June 7, 2015-January 2, 2016. Maloof Foundation, Alta Loma, CA
Olive Hyde Art Gallery, 47th Annual Textile Exhibition, June 19-July 18, 2015.
San Luis Obispo Museum of Art and the Central Coast Craftmakers, Dimensions 2014, Juried by Carol Sauvion, Creator & Executive Producer of Craft in America. 2014
San Francisco Public Library, Contemporary Quilt and Fiber Artists, Primal Green II, 2014
International Quilt Show Houston, Texas, SAQA Seasonal Palette, Juried by Kathleen McCabe & Vicki Mangum, 2012
Texas Quilt Museum, La Grange, Texas, Juried by Karey Bresenhan, January-March 2013, (Seasonal Palette)
National Quilt Museum, Paducah, Kentucky (Seasonal Palette). My work was chosen to represent Autumn in a collage of the four season on show merchandise, 2013
International Quilt Festival, Long Beach, California, (Seasonal Palette) August 2013,
New Quilts of Northern California; Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, California, Juried by Northern California Quilt Council into shows 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2013
Stitched and Layered; Blue Line Arts Gallery, Roseville, California, Juried by Merle Axelrad, UC Davis, June-July, 2013
Put Your Best Foot Forward; Creative Framing & Gallery, Oakland, California, Juried by Heather Piazza, April-May, 2013
Art of the Blues, Cinema Place Gallery, Hayward, California, Juried by the Hayward Arts Council, June-July, 2011
Fabric Art: Art Quilts Plus; Cinema Place Gallery, Hayward, California, Juried by the Hayward Arts Council, September-November, 2011
National Small Art Quilt Works; Main Street Gallery, Groton, New York, 2007
Expressions: The Art Quilt; Ricky Tims Art Quilt Studio & Gallery, La Veta, Colorado, Juried by Ricky Tims, September, 2006-January, 2007
Museum of the American Quilter’s Society Paducah, Kentucky, 2007 Machine Quilters Exposition: Manchester, New Hampshire, 2007
American Quilters Society Quilter’s Exposition; Nashville, Tennessee

Group Shows:

Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA. Studio Art Quilt Associates featuring four Northern California Fiber Artists, June-July, 2014
San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. FiberShots Community Challenge in conjunction with Tasty! too: Food Inspired Quilts, January-April 2014
Festival Internacional de Patchwork e Arts Afins, Curitiba, Brazil, August 27-30, 2014
New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts, April 5- July 6, 2015
Carrefour European du Patchwork, Alsace, France, September 16-19, 2015
Vicenza Festival, Vicenza, Italy, October 2015
Taiwan International Quilt Exhibition 2016, National Tainan Living Art Center, Tainan City, Taiwan, April 20-May 29, 2016

Public Space Art:

Santa Clara County Headquarters Building, Executive floor
Silicon Valley FACES, community assistance program office

Invitational:

Mizuho Town Quilt Association; Tokyo, Japan, Sister Cities Exchange, 2006, 2011, 2014

Publications:

2019

Geri Patterson-Kutras A Community Expresses Itself Through Quilting, Quilting Arts Magazine June/July 2019, pages 83-86

2015

California Handmade: State of the Arts, Emily Zaiden

2016

Inspirations II, No. CA/Nevada SAQA, Terry Jarrard-Dimond, Juror, Dolores Miller, Currator, 2016
Concrete & Grasslands: Kristin La Flamme, SAQA, 2016

2013

Seasonal Palette; Vicki Mangum & Kathleen McCabe, SAQA, 2012
People & Portraits; Martha Sielman, Lark, 2013
Quilters Newsletter; eyeQ, June/July, 2013
SAQA Journal; Seasonal Palette, Spring issue, 2013
American Quilters Society, Art Quilt Calendar, 2009, by invitation from Klaudeen Hansen, Editor
1000 Artist Trading Cards; 2007, Patricia Bolton, Quarry Books

Lecturing and Teaching

Guest Lecturer and teacher

Other Activities:

My commitment to the Fiber Arts has lead me to serve for the past three years as the Scholarship Chairperson for the South Valley Quilt Association. In this role I have contacted colleges in the Bay Area to identify students as candidates for scholarships which help them with the cost of their academic pursuits as fiber artists. As an artist I believe in giving back to my community and helping emerging artists achieve their goals.
I have also served as the Chairperson for a children’s Quilt Camp. I helped to develop a program for children to spend a week each summer to learn the art of quilting and its forms both traditional and artistic. The camp is provided to the children at a nominal cost and scholarships are provided to those children whose families cannot afford the tuition.
As a volunteer I have taught children's art classes in both private and public school settings. It is always a rewarding opportunity to work with children and introduce them to the wonderful world of their own creativity, artists, and art work.

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