CINDY HICKOK

523 Briar Path Dr., Houston TX  77079, 281-493-2525

cynthiahickok@sbcglobal.net; www.artists-galleries.com

EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION

A studio artist who uses thread as her medium, the needle as her paintbrush, the sewing machine as a tool, she earned a BS in Applied Art at Iowa State University in 1959, apprenticed in mosaic at Denwar Ceramics, California.

CURRENT & PENDING EXHIBITIONS

Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, works by 40 International artists, curated by David McFadden.  Museum of Arts & Design, New York City, Nov. 8 - Mar. 8.

Texas Master:  Cindy Hickok.  Solo Exhibition, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, to June 17, 2007.

Still Life.  Pfaff International Embroidery, juried.  Knitting & Stitching Show, London, and other venues, 2007 – 9.

SOFA Chicago, Jane Sauer Thirteen Moons (Santa Fe) booth; November 1 – 4, 2007.

Solo Exhibition, Knitting & Stitching Show, England & Ireland, 2009.

RECENT JURIED & INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

Reduced Gardens.   VIII Triennale Internationale des Mini-Textiles.  Musee Jean Lurcat, Angers, France.  Juried.  2002, 2005.  Museum purchase.

Material Difference Too.  SOFA Chicago, Friends of Fiber Arts Intl..  2006.

Portrait Gallery, Pfaff International Embroidery.  Juried.  Image on invitation.  England, Sweden, France.  2005 – 2007. 

Craft Houston ’06.  All-Texas juried crafts exhibition.  Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.

20/20.  Twenty works each by international artists Hickok & Moulton.  Voirrey Embroidery Centre, Wirral, England.  2006.

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Modern Design Collection, New York City, New York.

Musee Jean Lurcat et de la tapesseries contemporaine, Angers, France.  (two works)

Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin.

Szombathelyi Keptar, Szombathelyi, Hungary.

Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas.

SBISD Altharetta Yeargin Museum of Art, Houston, Texas.

Temple Cultural Arts Center, Temple, Texas.

PUBLICATIONS

My Table, cover story.  December, 2007 (pending).

Quilting Arts, profiled artist.  Summer, 2005.

Fiberarts Design Books II, III, V, VI, VII.  Juried compendium.  Lark Books.  1983 – 2004.

Numerous other magazines, books.

WORKSHOPS, LECTURES

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.  Workshop, lecture, 2007.

SOFA Chicago, lectures.  2002, 2006, 2007.

Featured speaker, Embroiderers Guild AGM, England, 2001.

Workshops taught in the United States, England, the Netherlands.