University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
B.A., History; B.A., Art History; and B.F.A., degrees granted June 1991
University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
M.A., Art History, degree awarded May 1994
Seattle Central Creative Academy, Seattle Central Colleges, Seattle, Washington
A.A.S., degree awarded June 2020
COOK: Cogean, Bremerton, Washington, November 17 through December 31, 2018
Art Exhibition, Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, October 2013 through January, 2014
Threading the Needle: Six Contemporary Artists Approach Needlework, Helzer Art Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon, October 21 through November 15, 2013
BAM Biennial 2012: High Fiber Diet, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington, October 25, 2012, through February 24, 2013
The Mysterious Content of Softness, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, September 15, 2012, through January 6, 2013. Organized by Bellevue Arts Museum
Power, Politics, and Performance for The Exquisite Uterus: The Art of Resistance, Gail Floether Steinhilber Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin—Oshkosh, September 3 through October 6, 2012; various Midwest locations through 2018
A Pattern of Warmth: Artists’ Rugs and Related Works, Gallery IMA, Seattle, Washington, March 3 through April 2, 2011
The Mysterious Content of Softness, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington, February 4 through June 26, 2011
Decorore, Port Angeles Art Center, Port Angeles, Washington, June 27 through September 26, 2004
O, Sebastian, Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle University, February 18, 2023
Counter-practice (Candlemas), Bellevue Arts Museum, October 25, 2012, through February 24, 2013
Rock Hushka, Toward a Postmodern Embroidery Practice. Seattle: EleventyThousand, 2023
Gail Clemmons, “Familiarity of Fiber Art Rendered Compelling at Bellevue ArtsMuseum’s Biennial,” The Seattle Times, January 18, 2013
Sarah Elson, “Bam’s High Fiber Diet Ties Art and Craft Together,” Bellevepath.com, December 17, 2012 (http://bellevue.patch.com/articles/bam-s-high-fiber-diet-ties-art-and-craft-together)
Alison Gates, “Rock Hushka: A Prick of the Needle,” Surface Design Journal vol. 36, no. 4 (Summer 2012), pp. 38–41
Sylvie Joseph-Julie. “La France en reference au Bellevue Arts Museum Biennale 2012 «High Fiber Diet», Atelier d’Ichere, October, 2012
“Fiber Art: An Exhibition at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum Explores the Power of Textiles,” Orlando Arts Magazine (November/December 2012): pp. 32-33
Karen Fleur Tofti-Tufarelli, “Art, AIDS, America,” Art & Understanding vol. 20, no. 5 (May 2011), pp. 42–43
Trudi Van Dyke. “Bellevue Arts Museum Biennial 2012: High Fiber Diet,” Fiber ArtNow vol. 2, no. 2 (Winter 2013), pp. 16–17
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Stefano Catalano, Seattle, Washington
Laura and Sandy Denser, Olympia, Washington
Layne Goldsmith, Snohomish, Washington
Dale G. Hall and Susan Russell Hall, Lakewood, Washington
Prudence Roberts, Portland, Oregon
Private Collection, New York City
Debora Moore: Arboria, Tacoma Art Museum, January 19, 2019 through August 2, 2020. The commissioned project was juried into the 2020 Renwick Invitational, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
Art AIDS America, West Hollywood Library/ONE Gallery Museum and Archive, Los Angeles, June 1 through September 6, 2015; Tacoma Art Museum, October 3 through January 10, 2015; Bernard A. Zuckerman Art Museum, Kennesaw, GA, February 20 through May 22, 2016; The Bronx Museum, New York City, June 23 through September 11, 2016; Alphawood Gallery, Chicago, December 1, 2016 through April 2, 2017
For You!: John Arsenault, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, March 10 through April 12, 2014 Dale Chihuly’s Northwest, Tacoma Art Museum, May 21 through October 2, 2011
Threads that Bind: Works by Pacific Northwest African American Quilters, Tacoma Art Museum, December 18, 2007 through February 17, 2008
Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt, Tacoma Art Museum, September 22 through December 9, 2007 (in-house organizing curator)
Beyond the Fringe: An Exhibition of Commissioned RugsHandwoven in Nepal in conjunction the University of Washington, School of Art’s Commissions: The Artist/Client Process, Tacoma Art Museum, August 2 through 7, 2005 (co-curated with Layne Goldsmith)
SEWN co-curated with Tara Reddy, Seattle Art Museum, March 15 through July 22, 2001
Material, Process, and Object: Northwest Artists Expanding the Practice of Fiber Art, co-curated with Layne Goldsmith, Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, 2000; Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, Idaho, 2000
Rock Hushka: Toward a Postmodern Embroidery Practice. Seattle: EleventyThousand, 2023
Debora Moore: Arboria. Tacoma, Wash: Tacoma Art Museum, 2020
“The Rebecca and Jack Benaroya Collection: The Beauty of a Shared Passion,” Metaphor into Form: The Rebecca and Jack Benaroya Collection, Tacoma Art Museum,Tacoma, Wash.: 2019
“Dale Chihuly’s Art and the Northwest Landscape,” Chihuly: Garden and Glass, Chihuly Workshop, Seattle, Wash.: 2012. Second edition, 2013; Third edition 2016
“A Lifetime of Inspiration: Dale Chihuly and Tacoma,” in Dale Chihuly: A Celebration. New York: Abrams, 2011
“Subjective Objects: Psychoanalyzing Jewelry,” in Metalsmith 30 (Autumn 2010)
“Commissions for Credit,” Fiberarts 23 (April/May2006): 48–51
“TapestryCommentary,” Tacoma Reporter, May24 through 30, 2002
“Lanny Bergner: Un/Natural World, Whatcom Museum,”Fiberarts 27 (2000)
SEWN with Tara Reddy. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2001.
”When Our Protection Poisons Us: The Installations of Erin Shie Palmer,“ Fiberarts 25 (1998)
“Reconstructing Memory: Sanctuary &Desire: Lou Cabeen at the Bellevue Art Museum,” Fiberarts 24 (1997)
“NorthwestTapestry,” with Layne Goldsmith, Fiberarts 20 (1993)
Seattle Art Museum Supporters, 2022 “Wrapping Up Everything Contemporary: A Brief History of Fiber Art,” December 7, 2022
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Georgia, panel discussion “Celebrating Queer Artists,” June 18, 2020
Tufts University, Boston, Visiting artist talk, Advanced Painting: Picturing the Anthropocene, April 14, 2020
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, “The Art of Social Change,” Visiting Artist, April 28, 2014
Bellevue Arts Museum, “The Politics of Cloth,” November 2, 2012
Seattle Art Museum, The Brychtová Forum, panel moderator for “Established Artists” with Jenny Pohlman, July 16, 2010
Salon SOFA, New York, “Hold Objects: What It Means to Wear Jewelry: The Psychoanalytic Mechanisms,” April 16, 2010
Tacoma Art Museum, “Holding Objects: What It Means to Wear Jewelry: The Psychoanalytic Mechanisms” for the symposium “Facets of Meaning,” June 28, 2009
Northwest Designer Craftsmen, Seattle, panel discussion “The Role of Museums in Contemporary Craft,” March 17, 2009, and Tacoma Art Museum, July 23, 2010
Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Ore., panel discussion, ”Extending theConversation: A Call and Response Exhibition,” January 19, 2008
Seattle Art Museum, “Degas to Mike Kelley with Lessons for Seattle,” for Sewn Together: A Forum for Considering the Newest and Oldest Artistic Traditions, April 28, 2001
University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, “Cloth as Irritant: Cloth and the Avant-Garde, anIntroduction to Materials, Process, and Object,” March 3, 2000
Seattle Art Museum, “Fiber Art and Related Work in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum,” January 8, 2000
University of Washington, Seattle, “Reading and Re-reading the Text: An Overview of Critical Writing in Fiber Art” May 28 and 30, 1997
Co-juror, Fiber Fusion, Washington State Surface Design Association, 2016
Advisory Committee for the University of Washington Extension Certificate in Fiber Arts Program, 2007 through 2009
Artist Trust, Seattle, “Professional Practices” portfolio reviewer 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007
Surface Design Association International Conference, Perspectives from the Rim, secretary for the organizing committee, 1989 through 1991
