Selected Resume
Edwina Bringle: Professor of Art Emerita of the University of NC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
After 24 years of teaching at the University of NC at Charlotte, NC, Edwina Bringle has enjoyed being a studio artist since 1997. As a fiber artist she is known for her use of color and design in the creation of her woven textiles and mixed-media pieces. Having enjoyed photography for many years, the colors and designs seen through the lens often become part of her unique textiles.
Invitational Exhibitions
2011 Farm to Fashion Juried Show, Handmade in America, Asheville, NC
2009 Conversations: Exhibition by South East Fiber Educators, East Carolina University, Wellington B. Gray Gallery
2008 Celebrating the Bringle Sisters: Clay & Textile Mentors, Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Asheville, NC
2005 Penland School of Crafts Resident Artist Exhibition, Main Gallery Folk Art Center, Southern Highland Craft Guild, Asheville, NC,
2004 NC Craft 04: A Celebration of Penland's 75th Anniversary, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, Eastern Carolina University, Greenville, NC
2004 Members Exhibition, Folk Art Center Gallery, Asheville, NC
2004 75th Anniversary Show, Penland School of Crafts, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
2003 Invited Artist, A Stitch In Time, Transylvania County Arts Council, Brevard, NC
2003 Southeastern Fiber Invitational 2003, Blue Spiral I Gallery, Asheville, NC
2003 Exhibition, Transylvania Arts Council, Brevard, NC
2002-03 Point of View, Luski Collection, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
2002 Craft Trails Exhibition, Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Hendersonville NC
2002 New Traditions, Folk Art Center, Asheville, NC
2002 Honoring Women, University of North Carolina, Asheville NC
2001 Black & White, Folk Art Center, Asheville, NC
2001 Southern Women of Influence, Kentucky Arts Council, KY
2000 Six and Six Fiber Show, Blue Spiral I Gallery, Asheville, NC
2000 A Woodland Reverie: Flora and Fauna in Craft, Folk Art Center, Asheville, NC
1999 Campbell House Galleries, Southern Pines, NC
1999 Craft Museum of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
1999 "Focus Gallery* Exhibition, Folk Art Center, Southern Highlands Craft Guild, Asheville NC
1999 The Southern Highlands Craft Guild: An Appalachian Perspective (Traveling Show).
Exhibitions at Georgia College, Milledgeville, Georgia; Davidson County Museum of Art.
Lexington, NC; Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, Danville, Virginia.
1999 Members Exhibition, Southern Highland Craft Guild, Folk Art Center, Asheville, NC
1999 Exhibition, Gallery WDO, Charlotte, NC
1999 13 North Carolina Artists, CPCC Art Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1998 Solo Exhibition, Explorations in Color, Chelsea Gallery, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
1998 - 99 Exhibition, Appalachian Regional Commission, Washington, DC
1997 "Cynthia Bringle, Clay: Edwina Bringle, Fiber," Cordova Cellars and Winery, Cordova, Tennessee. Exhibitions in November 1997, November 1998, and November 2000
1997 Fall Color VII: The Harvest, Blue Spiral I, Asheville, NC
1997 Members Exhibition, Folk Art Center, Southern Highland Craft Guild, Asheville, NC
1996 50th Anniversary Celebration, St. Andrews/Sewanee, Sewanee, TN
1996 Exhibition, Accounts Southeast: Craft Function and Tradition, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC
1996 'Crafts of the Southern Highlands,' Abington, VA
1996 Fall color VI, Blue Spiral I Gallery, Asheville, NC
1996 Members Exhibition, Folk Arts Center, Southern Highlands Craft Guild, Asheville, NC
1995 'Context,' Visual Arts Center, Charlotte, NC
1995 "The Nature Conservancy," 50th Anniversary Collection, Sandra Blain Gallery, and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
1995 Mapping A New Millennium, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg TN
Publications
Surface Design Journal, Volume 21, Number Two, page 34
The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience, 2004, page 121
Marbling, author Laura Sims, 2002, page 75
American Craft, September 1999, Creative Loafing, Charlotte, NC
Fiber Arts, Summer 1998, “New Works”
Juried National Shows
1997 Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio
1997 Spotlight 97, Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC
1997 Reflections: Contemporary Fiber Images, Etowah Art Gallery, Cartersville, Georgia
1996 One of 12 pieces accepted (from 660 entries), Lagrange National Biennial XIX, Lamar Dodd Art Center, Lagrange, GA
1996 Honorable Mention, BASF National Fiber Competition, Dalton, Georgia
Teaching, Speaking & Jurying
2013 Instructor, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
2013 Speaker, Chattahoochee Weavers Guild, Atlanta Georgia
2012 Speaker, Colorado Weavers Day Biennial Conference, Golden, Colorado
2010 Instructor, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
2008 Instructor, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
2006 Judge, Florida Craftsman, Bradenton, Florida
2005 Speaker, "Women Artist Lecture," Lebanon Valley College, Danville, Pennsylvania
2004 Invited Participant, Instructor Week, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
2004 Judge, Atalaya Arts Festival, Huntington Beach, South Carolina
2004 Instructor, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
2003 Juror, Scholastic Art, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
2003 Instructor, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
2002 Instructor, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2001 Instructor, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2000 Speaker, Alumni Weekend, Hutchison School, Memphis Tennessee
2000 Workshop Instructor, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, Georgia
2000 Instructor, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
1999 Instructor, Elderhostel: Tapestry Class, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
1998 Judge, The Gumtree Festival, Tupelo, Mississippi 27th Arts Festival
1996 Weaving Demonstrator, "Celebration of Textiles," The Textile Museum of Washington DC
1996 Judge, Blue Ridge Handweaving Show, Asheville NC
1996 Visiting Artist, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Works in Private and Public Collections
Bank of America, Charlotte, NC
Fielderest Cannon, Kannapolis NC
Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Greg Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
The North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, NC
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
Rhodes College, Memphis TN RJ Reynolds/Nabisco, Winston-Salem, NC
The Smithsonian, Washington DC
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte NC
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC