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Surface Design Magazine article (Winter 2012)

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Artsake nano interview - September 2011

Massachusettes Cultural Council

Featured Artist in the National Basketry Organization's Summer 2011 newsletter!

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Recipient of Massachusetts Cultural Council 2009 Fellowship for Crafts

Elizabeth and her State Representative Stephen Kulik at the Cultural Council Fellowship Awards Ceremony, Massachusetts State House, Boston, November 19, 2009.

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State Fellowships Honor Exceptional Artists
50 Filmmakers, Composers, Craft Artists, Playwrights, Sculptors, Photographers Win Grants

(BOSTON, MA) -- The Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) has recognized 50 Massachusetts artists for creating work of exceptional quality in a range of disciplines. MCC’s Artist Fellowship Program will award $10,000 unrestricted grants to 33 artists, and distinguish 17 others as finalists with $1,000 grants. These outstanding artists were selected from more than 1,200 applicants in the disciplines of film/video, music composition, photography, sculpture/installation, playwriting and crafts.

MCC’s Artist Fellowships recognize the unique contribution made by artists to the cultural vitality of the Commonwealth. The fellowships provide direct assistance to Massachusetts artists to recognize excellence and creative ability, and to support further development of their talents. MCC chronicles the impact of these awards in the Fellows Notes section of its blog ArtSake.

“Artists are the backbone of Massachusetts’ creative economy,” said MCC Executive Director Anita Walker. “These fellowships give talented individuals the freedom to develop work that will be shown, sold and performed all over the world.”

Crafts Fellowships include Brookline’s Janet Echelman, who creates large-scale nylon and steel public works that allow wind to be seen by the human eye; and Elizabeth Whyte Schulze of Worthington, whose contemporary baskets made of organic materials are currently on display at Cambridge’s Mobilia Gallery in the exhibition Cut the Edge, Weave the Line: Textile Arts 2009.

Elizabeth and Don Whyte

This is a photo of my father, Don Whyte and myself with Scripto and Scripto II June 2008. Together we made a donation of Scripto to the Racine Art Museum (RAM) for their collection of fine basketry. RAM has an outstanding collection of fine craft and has two of my earlier works given by Dale and Doug Anderson in 2000. I made the smaller version called Scipto II for my father to have in his Racine home. I grew up in Racine and as a child my parents took me to Saturday art classes at the Charles A. Wustum Museum now know as RAM.

In the fall of 2008 I traveled to Australia with my husband Steve and my brother Gordon. Together we made an extensive trip from Alice Springs to Uluru via the Mereenie Loop Road. We climbed Kings Canyon hiking over a 300 million year old seabed to the edge of jaw dropping cliffs. Views of the vast desert plain contrasted sharply with the lush green palms growing in the crevasses of the canyon 800 feet below. Further south is Uluru (Ayers Rock Ningaloo ) located in the Uluru – Kata Tjuta National Park. We spent several days exploring the great monolith known to the local aboriginal people as Uluru. I saw a variety of rock art paintings hidden in various cavities around Uluru’s 6 mile circumference. The color of this giant sandstone formation and its special sites and its special significance has given me a wealth of inspiration.
The sculpture NINGALOO is the first artwork that I have completed since returning from Australia. I have attempted to express in the form and surface design many of the images and ideas I experienced on my travels. My work in 2009 will be a continuation of this attempt. I am very excited about my new work and I look forward to sharing the completed pieces in early 2009.

Upcoming Shows:

Spotlight New Work, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge MA, February 16th-March 17th - Click here to read the newsletter

Teaching:

Baskets: Coiled, Covered and Embellished - Snowfarm, Williamsburg, MA, May 19th-25th - Click here to read about the class

Lectures & Events:

Elizabeth Whyte Schulze Artist Talk - Friday, November 9, 7 pm at the Worthington Historical Society, Worthington MA

Awards:

Recipient of Massachusetts Cultural Council 2009 Fellowship for Crafts

Publications:

"Painting in the Round", Patricia Malarcher, Surface Design Magazine, Winter 2012

NBO 2011 Summer Newsletter, cover photo and article, NBO, 2011

500 Baskets, Lark Books, 2006

Baskets A Book for Makers and Collectors, Billy Ruth Sudduth, 1999

Reviews:

Journeys: Elizabeth Whyte Schulze, solo show, Fiber Art Center FIBERARTS 2007, Nancy Moore Bess
"Artist implements basic methods, materials for her work", Gregory Morell, The Recorder, Greenfield, MA, February 12, 2004
"Getting More Fiber", Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Pittsburgh, PA, April 28, 2004
"'Crossings' In Time", Larry Parnass, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, MA, February 20, 2004
"New Forms in Fiber", Patricia Harris and David Lyon, Fiber Arts Magazine, Summer 2002
"Drawing on Lascaux", Rick Reiken, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, MA, October 1996

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