Origin and Synthesis: Selected Weavings by Janice Lessman-Moss 1994-2004

Janice Lessman-Moss
Born	April 30, 1954, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Employment	Professor, Crafts/Textile Art, School of Art, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, U.S.A
Residence	Kent, Ohio, U.S.A.
Contact	jlessman@kent.edu

EDUCATION
1979-81	M.F.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1977-79	B.F.A., Magna cum laude, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
2003	Summer Research and Creative Activity Appointment, University Research Council, KSU
2002	Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Crafts
2001	Ohio Arts Council, Professional Development Assistance Award
1999	Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Crafts
	Summer Research and Creative Activity Appointment, University Research Council, KSU
1998	Ohio Arts Council, Professional Development Assistance Award
1997	Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Crafts
1996	Summer Research and Creative Activity Appointment, University Research Council, KSU
1995	OAC/SOROS Artist Exchange Grant, Academy of Applied Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
1993	Ohio Arts Council, Professional Development Award
1992	Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Crafts
	Professional Development Award, College of Fine and Professional Arts, KSU
1990	Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Crafts
1988	Academic Year Research and Creative Activity Appointment, University Research Council, KSU
	Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Crafts
1987	Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Crafts
1986	Professional Development Award, College of Fine and Professional Arts, KSU
1984	Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Crafts
	Professional Development Award, College of Fine and Professional Arts, KSU

ARTICLES, REVIEWS AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF WORK IN PUBLICATIONS
The Fiberarts Design Book 7, Edited by Susan Mowery Kieffer, Lark Books, 2004 (photo).
Carol Westfall, "The Next Step in Jacquard Study," Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot Magazine, Summer 2003, p.27&29 (photos).
American Craft, Gallery, February/March 2003, p.94 (photo).
"Jacquard Boot Camp," Fiberarts Magazine, Summer 2002 (photos).
Dorothy Shinn, "Nice work, but show reflects big problem," The Beacon Journal, Akron, Ohio, Sunday November 10, 2002, p. E3 (photo and mention).
Virginia Davis, "Interactions," Surface Design, Fall 2001, p. 7-8 (photo and mention).
Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot Magazine, News & Information, Winter 1999/2000, p.6 (photo).
"State of the Arts Report," CD-ROM, Ohio Arts Council, 2000 (photo).
American Craft, Gallery, April/May 2000 (photo).
The Fiberarts Design Book Six, Lark Books, 1999 (photo).
Bernard Freydberg and Akiko Kotani, Profile, "Janice Lessman-Moss," Fiberarts Magazine, Sep/Oct 1998, p. 28 (article and photo).
Polly Ulrich, "Textile Arts Centre's Fiber '97," Reviews, Fiberarts Magazine, Summer 1998, p. 63 (photo and mention).
Patricia Malarcher, "Three Aproaches," Surface Design, Winter 1998, p.10-14, 56 (article with photos).
Bernard Freydberg and Akiko Kotani, "Perspectives: Contemporary Work in Textiles," Reviews, Fiberarts Magazine, Jan/Feb 1998, p. 52 and 53 (mention).
American Craft, Gallery, June/July 1997, p. 80 (photo).
Bernard Freydberg/Akiko Kotani, "Chautauqua International for Fiber Art 1996," Fiberarts Magazine, Jan/Feb'97, p. 60 (short review).
Dorothy Shinn, "KSU facultys show is one of best in years," The Beacon Journal, Akron, Ohio, Sunday December 8, '96, p. E3 (mention).
Joan Livingstone, Chautauqua International for Fiber Art, 1996 exhibition catalogue (short review and photos).
Kathleen Browne, "Janice Lessman-Moss: Clues to Being, William Busta Gallery," Surface Design, Fall 1994, p. 31 (review).
Helen Cullinan, "Weaving is a labor of love," The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio, Today Section, February 22, 1994, p. 10-E (article).
Steven Litt, "Artzak, visual Muzak", The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday, August 4, 1991, p. 3-H (mention).
"Americans Abroad", American Craft, Dec. 1990/Jan. 1991, p. 57 (quoted).
American Craft, Gallery, Fibers, Dec. 1990/Jan. 1991 p. 78 (photo).
Ann Sutton and Diane Sheehan, Ideas in Weaving, Interweave Press 1989, p.106-7.
American Craft, Portfolio, April/May 1988, p. 58 (article and photo).
Jacqueline Hall, "Gund Textile Show Woven of Opposing Forms," Columbus Dispatch, Ohio, July 3, '88, p.6H (review and photo).
The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Friday Magazine, January 29, 1988, p.29 (photo).
1988 Appointment Calendar, American Craft Museum (photo).
The Fiberarts Design Book Three, Edited by Kate Mathews, 1987 (photo).
Paul J. Smith, Edward Lucie-Smith, Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, 1986 (photo).
Catherine Ferrer, "The Emerging Artist: The Gallery and the Public," Dialogue, March/April 1985, p.6 (article).
Ann Daly, The Pittsburgh Press, February 9, 1984 (exhibition review).
Elizabeth McClelland, Fiberarts Magazine, November/December 1984, p.18 (article and photos).
Harry Schwalb, Pittsburgh Magazine, August 1983, p. 55 (review and photo).
Fiberarts Design Book II, edited by Jeane Hutchins, 1983, p.49, 63 (photos).
American Craft, Gallery, Fiber, December 1982/January 1983, p.63 (photo).
Dialogue, The Ohio Arts Journal, March/April 1982, p.59 (article).
The Fiberarts Design Book, from the editors of Fiberarts Magazine, 1980, p.70 (photo).
"HGA Scholarships '79," Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot Magazine, Fall 1979 (photo and article).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004-2005	Kent State University Museum, Kent, Ohio
2003	Museum of Fine Art and Culture, Las Cruces, New Mexico
2001	Galeria Willa, Lodz, Poland (an event of the 10th International Triennial of Tapestry)
	Gallery 138, School of Art, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
1994 & 1997	William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1990	BWA, Galeria Balucka, Lodz, Poland
	Ohio Designer Craftsmen Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
1988	Marcus Gordon Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1984 & 1985	John Davis Gallery, Akron, Ohio
1983	Richard Jacobson Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1982	Lynn Mayhew Gallery, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio

SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2004	"Fourth Fiber Biennial," Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia
	"Material Wealth, A National Crafts Invitational," Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania *
2002	"Digital Weaving," Art and Design Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
	"Digital Weaving and the Power Loom," Ford Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI *
	"Fiber," The Mansfield Art Center, Mansfiled, OH
2000	SOFA, Presented by Snyderman Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
	"Constructed Pattern: Woven Work by Janice Lessman-Moss and Pauline Verbeek-Cowart," Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
	"Surface-Strength-Structure: Pertaining to Line," Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA *
	"From Lausanne to Beijing: International Tapestry Art Exhibition," Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China *
1997	Fiber Art Exhibition, Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania
1996	"North American Weaving: Ancient Traditions/New Technology," Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
	"Images - Fiber Work," Meadow's Gallery, Denton Visual Arts Center, Denton, Texas
	"Choice Selections," FAVA, New Union Center for the Arts, Oberlin, Ohio
1995	"Fiber: Five Decades from the Permanent Collection," American Craft Museum, New York
	3rd "In Our Hands" International Competition, Nagoya Trade & Industry Center, Nagoya, Japan *
	"Facets of Fiber," Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas
	"Possibilities of Weaving," Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, Alaska
	"Images-Fiber Work," Davis Gallery, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
1993	"Coming Close," Kiryat Ha'Omanin Gallery, Kiryat Tivon, Israel *
	"Ohio Fiber Art Invitational '93," Brenda Kroos Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
	"Selections from the Ohio Fiber Invitational '93," Inaugural Exhibition, Ohio Designer Craftsmen Museum, Columbus, Ohio
1991	"Plein-air Exhibition", The Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland
	"The Contemporary Tapestry", 3 Women Invitational Ida Green Gallery, Austin College, Sherman, Texas Fine Arts Gallery, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas
1990	"Designs in Sculptural Fiber," National Invitational, Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
1989	"A Showcase for Contemporary Craftsmanship," Wilson and Gough Gallery, London, England
	"Crafts in the Corporate Interior," New York Design Center, New York
	"Woven Walls: Large-Scale Tapestries," Liberty Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
	"Fast Forward," Gayle Willson Gallery, Southampton, New York
	"Toward the Center: Ritual, Narration and Sense of Place in Fiber," University Art Gallery, Central Michigan U., Mt. Pleasant, MI
	"Retrospective/Introspection," The Gund Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
	"Computer Weavings," Frontroom Gallery, Dallas, Texas
	"Woven Structures in the Computer Age," The Fine Arts Galleries, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas
1988	"Works by Charles Lermond and Janice Lessman-Moss," The Gund Gallery, Columbus, Ohio *
	"Variations on a Theme - Fiber," Beachwood Museum, Beachwood, Ohio
1987	"New Work by Artists featured in Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical," Wita Gardiner Gallery, San Diego, CA
	"Group Exhibition," Summer Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
	"Small Works," Gayle Willson Gallery, Southampton, New York
	"Beyond Craft," Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center, Columbus, Ohio
1986	"Tapestry Invitational," Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts, Berkeley, California
	"Fibers National Invitational," Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University, Edinboro, Pennsylvania
	"Five from Kent," Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
	"Sixth Annual Group Exhibition," John Davis Gallery, Akron, Ohio
	"3 Artists: Paper/Felt/Fiber," Art Galleries, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse and Viterbo College, Wisconsin
	"The Ohio Craft Invitational Show 16," The Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio
	"Fiber Constructions," Gayle Willson Gallery, Southampton, New York
1985	"Janice Lessman-Moss and Bruce Metcalf," Fawick Art Gallery, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio
	"Have A Heart" Benefit Exhibition, The Akron Art Museum, Ohio
	"New Talent," Carr Gallery, Houston, Texas
	"Kent State University Crafts Faculty," Massillon Museum, Massillon, Ohio
	"First Annual Governor's Residence Art Collection," Columbus, Ohio
	"Fifth Annual Group Exhibition," John Davis Gallery, Akron, Ohio
1984	"Alumni Invitational Craft Exhibition," Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1983	"Seventh Annual Textile Invitational Exhibition," Weber State College, Ogden, Utah
	"Ohio Fibers, An Invitational Survey," B.K. Smith Gallery, Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio
	* denotes catalogue documentation of the exhibition
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2004	"Material World," Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA 2004
	"New Fibers 2004," Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2003	"Convergence," The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
2002	"Textiles Two Thousand Two," Center Galleries, College of Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
	"Move It! Studies in Motion," The Dairy Barn, Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH
2001	"2nd Cheongju International Craft Bienniale," Cheongju-City, Republic of Korea *
	"Fine Fiber: Art for the 21st Century," SOFA, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
2000	"Uncommon Threads: Contemporary Regional Textiles," Museum in the Community, Hurricane, West Virginia
	"Blue," Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, MI
	"Art on View 2000," The Dairy Barn, Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH
1999	"6th International Textile Competition - Kyoto," Kyoto Museum, Kyoto, Japan * (additional venue) Omiya Fureai Kobo, Tango, Japan
	"Contained Spaces," Textile Art Alliance exhibition, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
1998	"Overtones," Handweavers Guild of America Convergence Conference Exhibition, Atlanta, GA
1997	"5th International Textile Competition - Kyoto," Kyoto Museum, Kyoto, Japan *
	"Fiber97", Textile Arts Centre, Chicago, Illinois
	"Fiberart International '97," 15th Biennial Exhibition, The Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA *
1996	"Chautauqua International for Fiber Art," Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, New York *
1993	"Pattern: New Form/New Function," Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
	"The Best of 1993 - Ohio Designer Craftsmen," Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, Ohio Toledo Owens Illinois Corporate Art Center, Toledo, Ohio
1992	"3rd International Textile Competition - Kyoto," Kyoto Museum, Kyoto, Japan *
	"Third Annual Juried Exhibition," Ohio Women's Caucus for Art Emery Center Machine Shop Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1990	"Alumni Exhibition," Slusser Gallery, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1989	"The Best of 1989," Ohio Designer Craftsmen (Traveling Exhibition) Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, Ohio The Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio
	"1989 May Show," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
	"Paper/Fiber '89," Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
	"Fiberfest '89," University Art Gallery, Western Illinois University, Illinois
1988	"Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical," (Traveling Exhibition) The J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia The Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
	"About Fiber," Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois
	"May Show," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
1987	"Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical," (Traveling Exhibition) The Denver Art Museum, Colorado Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
	"Fiber Structure National V," Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California
	"May Show," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
	"Three Rivers Arts Festival," Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1986	"Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical," Inaugural Exhibition, American Craft Museum, New York *
	"Art Quest '86," Parson Gallery, Parson School of Design, New York * Brand Library Galleries, Glendale, California
	"New Connections: Works in Fiber," Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
	May Show, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
1985	"Visual Reservoirs: Objects and Images In-Of-Under-About Surface," The Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, CA
	"May Show," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
	"Crafts: National," Upton Hall Gallery, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, New York
1984	"Impulse: New Images in Fabric," Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan
	"May Show, 65th Annual Exhibition," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
	"18th Annual Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts," Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania
	"Festival Awards," Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
	"The Garden: New Form/new Function," Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
	"Fiber Structure National," Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California
1983	"Focus: Fiber," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
	"September Competition," Alexandria Museum, Visual Art Center, Alexandria, Louisiana
	"American Art Annual," Middletown Fine Arts Center, Middletown, Ohio
	"Third Anniversary Gallery Artist Exhibition," John Davis Gallery, Akron, Ohio
	"Fiber National '83," Adams Memorial Gallery, Dunkirk, New York
1982	"Lessman-Moss/Metcalf," The School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Ohio *
	"New Directions: Clay and Fiber, 1982," Gray Art Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
	"34th Annual Ohio Ceramic, Sculpture and Craft Show," The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
	"May Show," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
	"Crafts 16," Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
	"Crafts Invitational," Chautauqua Art Association Galleries, Chautauqua, New York
	"Lessman-Moss/Metcalf," Denison University Art Gallery, Granville, Ohio
	*denotes catalogue documentation of the exhibition
AWARDS
2004	Best of Show, "Material World," Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
2000	Distinguished Scholar Award, Kent State University
	Award of Excellence, "Art on View 2000," The Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH
1998	Handweavers Guild of America Award, "Overtones" exhibition at Convergence, Atlanta, GA
1996	Juror's Commendation, "Chautauqua International for Fiber Art," Dunkirk, New York
1989	Wm. Jordan Memorial Award for Excellence in Fiber,"The Best of 1989" Ohio Designer Craftsmen, Columbus Cultural Arts Center
1986	First Place, Fiber, Art Quest '86, National Art Competition
	Honorable Mention, Fiber, "New Connections: Works in Fiber," Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
1985	Horace E. Potter Memorial Award for Excellence in Textiles, The May Show, The Cleveland Museum of Art
1984	Festival Award: Crafts, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1983	Festival Award: Indoor Sculpture/Crafts, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
1982	First Prize: Fibers, "American Art Annual," Middletown Fine Arts Center, Middletown, Ohio

COLLABORATION
2001	With Tommy Parlon, Choreograper, "Bending Lucidity," Dance 2001, E. Turner Stump Theatre, School of Theatre and Dance, Kent State University (Five of my weavings incorporated into the stage set.)

WORK REPRESENTED
Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ohio Online Visual Artist Registry (www.ohioonlinearts.org)
Guild.com

COMMISSIONS
Advanced Elastomer Systems, Wadsworth, Ohio
Jacobs, Visconsi and Jacobs, Cleveland, Ohio
Marriot Hotel, Jacksonville, Florida
Squire, Sanders and Dempsey, Cleveland, Ohio
Westinghouse Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
American Council on Education, Washington, D.C. American Craft Museum, New York, New York City of Akron, Office of the Mayor, Ohio East Carolina University, School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina Ohio Building Authority, Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts, Columbus, Ohio Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, Ohio Wabash College, Wabash, Indiana

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Bank South, Atlanta, Georgia Deleware Steel Co., Balacynwyd, Pennsylvania Dellagnese Corporation, Akron, Ohio Duquesne Light, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Kaiser Permanente, Cleveland, Ohio Kennametal Inc., Latrobe, Pennsylvania Lewis and Howard, Houston, Texas Marriot Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri McGeady Sisneros P.C., Denver, Colorado Mehler & Hagestrom Inc., Cleveland, Ohio Mountain Bell, Denver, Colorado National Interstate Casualty Insurance Co., Cleveland, Ohio Nestle Corporation, Solon, Ohio Systemmation Co., Cleveland, Ohio Westinghouse Productivity and Quality Center, Pittsburgh, PA