MARIE BERGSTEDT     

Selected Exhibitions

2012  Fiber Options: Material Explorations Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis          

           World of Threads Festival, a Common Thread international exhibition, Toronto/Oakville, Canada

           Outside/Inside the Box, Fiber Philadelphia international, PA

           Contemporary Women Artists XVI: Longevity, St. Louis, MO

2011   Instructors' Showcase Exhibit, The Studios of Key West, FL

           artKudos International Juried Art Competition and Exhibition

           SRAM pART PROJECT, Curated benefit exhibition to benefit World Bicycle Relief

           ArtPrizesm, Women's City Center Club Exhibit Center, Grand Rapids, MI

           14th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

            Celebrating Women, College of the Sequoias Gallery/Arts Visalia, CA

            MYSELF, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno

2010  New Fibers 2010 National, Fiber Arts Network of Michigan, Eastern Michigan Univ.

           Wearable Art/Unwearable Fashion International, VisArts, Rockville, MD

           Metaphoric Fibers: Untamed Knitting and Crochet International, Textile Center, MN

          ART: Healing Lives International, Textile Center, MN

Selected Awards:

2011

Third Place, artKudos international art competition & exhibition of artists from 23 countries

Honorable Mention: Professional Artist Magazine 2011 Portrait Cover Competition

Tenth Anniversary Collector's Edition, Kennedy Publishing web-feature of "extraordinary artists"

Selected Publications

2012 Contemporary Sculptors, curated by Danijela Kracun and Charles McFadden, Schiffer press.

2011 Fiber Plus at BLUE DOOR GALLERY, Yonkers NY

2011 Best of Worldwide Portrait and Figurative Artists, to be published by Kennedy Publishing, Williamsburg, VA.

2010  Catalog of New Fibers 2010 Exhibition, Paragraph about Marie Bergstedt's work in forward by Michele Fricke, Professor and program head of Art History at the Kansas City Art Institute, MO.

2010 and 2012  ART BUZZ, 2010 Collection, annual hardcover juried art book.

2010  "Wearable Art/Un-Wearable Fashion" Unfastens Our Finery, Rockville Central News and Views on Rockville, MD, Cindy Cotte Griffiths.