Karen Searle
Collections/Exhibitions/Curating
Exhibitions, continued
Invitational
Crochet: Ancient Craft, Contemporary Art, Fine Line Center, St.
Charles, IL, Winter 2001.
Chain Reaction: Crochet Show, Textile Arts Center, Chicago, IL and
McHenry College Gallery,
Crystal Lake, IL, Fall, 2000.
World Contemporary Craft Now, First International Biennale, Cheongju,
Korea, Fall 1999. (Invited Foreign Artist)
KnitWits, Target Gallery, The Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA,
Winter 1998.
Breaking Patterns: Contemporary Hand Knitting in the United States,
Harmony Hall Arts Center,
Washington, DC. Fall 1997.
WARM Mentor/Protégée Show, Northrup King Building, Minneapolis, and New York
Mills, MN, Fall, 2006;
Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI, Fall, 2004;
DiStilo Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Fall 2002;
Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN, Fall, 2000;
Nash Gallery, U of MN Minneapolis, MN, Fall 1998.
Juried
Silent Conversations, Craft Alliance, St, Louis, MO, Spring, 2007.
New Fiber 2006: Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI,
Summer, 2005 and traveling.
Art of the Doll, Pump House Arts Center, LaCrosse, WI, Summer,
2006.
Beyond Fibers: New Forms, Winter, 2006, Bliss Center for Arts,
Steamboat Springs, CO. (Juror's Award)
Gems, Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN,
Spring, 2004
Rhythm of Crochet, McHenry College, Crystal Lake, IL, Fall, 2003, traveling in
IL and MA through Summer, 2004.