BIO
Molly Elkind is a mixed-media fiber artist living and working near Atlanta. Her small-scale, mostly abstract art quilts and mixed media collages gain their vivid color from artist-dyed cotton and silk and hundreds of hand-embroidered glass beads. Molly's work is inspired by the beauty of the natural landscape and by the intimate, meditative quality of medieval icons.
Molly's art quilts, handmade paper sculptures, and mixed media work have been exhibited in juried shows locally and nationally, and she has been published in Arts Across Kentucky and Needlearts magazines. She received an Artist Enrichment grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Norman Kohlhepp Prize at the Louisville Water Tower Annual. Her work is in several private collections. Molly takes commissions and also does liturgical work.
Molly's art practice is devoted to sharing art as well as creating it. Molly brings over twenty years of teaching experience to her art workshops in schools, museums, community art centers, quilt shows and guilds, and private classes.
Molly earned an MA in Studio Art, with a concentration in Fiber, from the University of Louisville in 2002. She also holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English. She is a member of the Surface Design Association, The Embroiderer's Guild of America/Fiber Forum (juried in), the Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild, and the Handweavers Guild of America.
RESUME
GRANTS AND PRIZES
2002 Kentucky Foundation for Women. $1,000 Artist Enrichment Grant.
2000 Norman Kohlhepp Prize, Water Tower Annual, Louisville Visual Arts Association.
SOLO EXHIBITION
2009 Dodd Creek and Other Places Brown Gallery, Mercer University, Atlanta, GA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 World of Art 2008 (juried), South Cobb Arts Alliance, Mableton, GA
2008 Artist as Quiltmaker XIII (juried), FAVA, Oberlin, OH
2008 3rd Annual National Juried Exhibition, Katherine Butler Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2007 Footsteps (juried), Temple Gallery, Decatur, GA
2007 Art Beyond Borders, Alpharetta, GA
2006 Some Restrictions Apply (juried), Shorter College, Rome, GA
2006 National Small Art Quilt Works (juried), Honorable Mention, Main Street Gallery, Groton, NY
2006 South Cobb Arts Alliance 19th National Juried Art Exhibition, Purchase Award, Mable House, Mableton, GA
2005 Louisville Fiber and Textile Artists (juried), Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
2004 Infusion, 4th Annual Women's Caucus for Art/GA Member's Exhibition, Defoors Art Center, Atlanta, GA.
2004 Handmade Paper and Small Sculpture (juried), Artlink, Inc., Fort Wayne, IN.
2003 Invitational Fibers Exhibit (invitational), East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN.
2003 Woven Together-Art & Community (juried), Nazareth Arts Gallery, Nazareth, KY.
2003 Tree of Life, Louisville Visual Arts Association, Louisville, KY.
2002 Arts on Main Juried Art Exhibition, Shelbyville, KY
2002 Hiking A Paper Trail, M.A. Thesis Exhibit, University of Louisville
2001 Mazin Art Exhibition: First Biennial Juried Show, Jewish Community Center, Louisville, KY.
2001 Word/Text/Language: images and the written word (juried), Morehead State University, Morehead, KY
2001 Baskets, Beads, & Fiber. . . Oh My! An Invitational Exhibition of Fiber-Related Art, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN.
2000 Uncommon Threads: Contemporary Regional Textiles (juried invitational), Museum in the Community, Hurricane, WV.
2000 Up and Coming (juried), exhibit of student work at Surface Design Association Conference. Opie Gallery, Kansas City, MO.
2000 Environment 2000 (juried), Galeria Mesa, Mesa, AZ.
2000 Water Tower Annual (juried), Louisville Visual Arts Association, Louisville, KY
1999 Through the Needle's Eye (juried), 15th Annual Exhibit of the Embroiderers' Guild of America, Louisville, KY and national traveling exhibit through 2000.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Fiber Forum Jurying, Needlearts (Embroiderers' Guild of America), September 2009.
"Pulp to Paper, Paper to Art," by Molly Elkind, Arts Across Kentucky, Spring 2004.
"'Water Tower Annual' works are linked by their complexity," review by Diane Heilenman, [Louisville] Courier-Journal, March 26, 2000.
Cover of Needlearts, March 1999.
"Through the Needle's Eye" by Lida Gordon. Review of the 15th Annual Exhibit of the EGA in Arts and Crafts Across Kentucky, Summer 1999.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Workshop Leader, 2009-present.
Teach classes through the Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild. Teach classes in various fiber and surface design techniques to guilds and in private lessons in my studio.
Workshop Leader, Fulton County School Arts Program, 2003-2008; Kentucky Arts Council Artist Roster, 2002-2003.
Juried into programs that facilitate artist workshops and residences in public schools. Taught workshops in bookmaking to Atlanta-area middle and high school students.
Art Educator, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Kentucky Department of Education, Frankfort, KY; Jefferson County Public Schools, Jefferson County, KY, 1999-2003.
Developed and presented over a dozen professional development sessions about artists and museum exhibits to teachers. Subjects ranged from medieval to contemporary art, including European, African, and American art. Researched and wrote materials for classroom use.
Workshop Leader, Kentucky Museum of Arts + Design, Louisville, KY, 2002-2003.
Artist's book workshops for adults and elementary school students. Two-week artist's book residency at school for at-risk teenaged girls.
Adjunct Professor of English, Jefferson Community College, Louisville, KY, 1994-97; Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD, 1990-92
Department Chair and English Teacher, Regina High School, Silver Spring, MD, 1984-87
EDUCATION
M.A. in Studio Art (Fiber), University of Louisville, 2002. Hite Graduate Scholarship, 1999-2001
M.A. in English Literature, University of Virginia, 1984. President's and duPont Fellowships, 1982-84
B.A. in English, summa cum laude, Kenyon College, 1978. Phi Beta Kappa, National Merit Scholar.
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