Joan maintains a career that has expanded over a number of decades; below is an excerpt of her resume highlighting her achievements and contributions to contemporary quilts and fiber arts.
Selected Exhibitions
Joan Schulze—Celebrating 80, Fresno Art Museum, California, solo show.
Quilt National ’89,’ 91, ’93, ’95, ’97, ’03, ’09, ’13, ’17, ’19, ’21; Dairy Barn Center for the Arts, Athens, Ohio.
Visions 2008, 2010, 2018, 2020, Visitons Art Museum, San Diego, California.
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and Society for Contemporary Craft, Fiberart International 2013.
Contemporary International Craft Exhibition, “1895” Cultural & Creative Industrial Park, Nantong City, PR China.
Beyond Function, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, 2012.
Poetic License: The Art of Joan Schulze, Retrospective, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, 2010.
Skylark Prize Exhibition, Los Angeles, 2009.
Taiwan International Quilt Exhibition, Tainan City, Taiwan 2009.
Art by Women, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2009.
Realm of Diversity and Equality, International Exhibition of Seven Contemporary Artists,
Shandong University Gallery, Jinan, China.
Elements: ‘the art of collage’, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO, 2009.
iQUILT- iDRAW: The original fiction of Joan Schulze, Ararat Regional Gallery, Australia, 2007, solo show.
Joan Schulze-QUILTS, National Exhibition Centre, England., 2005, solo show.
International Fiberart Biennale: Beijing 2000; 2002; 2008; 2014; 2018; 2021; Shanghai 2004; Suzhou, 2006; Henan, 2010; Nantong, 2012; Shenzhen 2016
2005 Biennale Internazionale Dell”ARTE Contemporanea, Florence, Italy., 2005.
Of Time and Place: Layered and Stitched Textiles, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.
Contemporary Art Quilts, The Best of California Quilts, Santa Barbara Historical Society. 2006.
Art Quilts, Philadelphia Art Alliance 2007.
Six Continents of Quilts-The American Craft Museum Collection. New York City, traveling.
“SAMPLE Exhibition”, UK & Netherlands, 2002-2004.
Contemporary Abstraction by Ten Women Printmakers, The Print Center, Philadelphia.
Objects of Desire, The Danish Textile Museum, Herning, Denmark, 2000, solo show;
Galerie Smend, Cologne, Germany, 1999, solo show.