Patricia has work in private, public and corporate collections.
Commissions
1999 E-Prime. Denver, Colorado. “If I knew then what I know now".
1995 Utah 1% for Art Commission. "Migration." Installation of five suspended hand-woven forms: 5’ x 6’, 5’ x 9’, 5’ x 12’, 5’ x 12’, and 5’ x 18’. Collaboratively installed with Utah 1% for Art. $18,000. Utah Winter Sports Park at Bear Hollow Lodge. Park City, Utah. Site of the 2002 Olympics.
l991 Colorado Association of School Boards Commission for National School Boards Association. Washington, DC. Canyon VI. 3 feet by 5 feet tapestry.
Many private commissions.
Private commissions.
Public Presentations
1997 Presentation of "Fibering into Space. A Utah 1% for Art commission. Dreaming of, Seeking, Receiving and Producing a Public Art Commission", at the Intermountain Weavers Conference, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado. August 9, 1997.
Publications: FIBERARTS. The Magazine of Textiles. Jan/Feb 2002. “An Olympic Tapestry”. Written by Carol Ventura
Exhibitions
2011 Centro de las Artes, San Luis Potosí, SLP MX. Individual.
2010 Galerías Irma Valerio. Individual. Zacatecas, Zac. MX
2009 "las mujeres hacemos historia." Centro de la Gráfico de Zacatecas.
2008 American Tapestry Biennial 7. Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida;
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, Kentucky.
High Fiber Under Five. San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. California.
"Hilo y Color Unidos por las Manos de Patricia Dunn." Exposición Instituto Municipal de Guadalupe, Zacatecas. Semana Nacional de Migración.
2006-7 American Tapestry Biennial 6. Urban Institute of Contemporary Art. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington. San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, California.
2005 “Artista y Mujer Zacatecana”. En el Día Internacional de la Mujer. Galeria “El Principio” Zacatecas, Zacatecas, México.
2004 Exposición Plástica “Girasoles alrededor de la Vida”. Galería “El Principio”. Zacatecas,
Zacatecas, México.
2003 “Mosáico Urbano” Museo de Arte de Querétaro, Querétaro, México.
Lourdes Sosa Galería, Colonia Polanco, México, DF, México.
Memorial Tapestry Project. Monique Lehman. Pasadena, California. Participant.
III Encuentro Internacional de Arte Textil en Miniatura. México
2001 “Influences of Mexico and Japan”. Duo Show. Bayeux Gallery. Denver, Colorado.
2000 Patricia Dunn Tapesties. Chamber of Commerce. Littleton, Colorado
1998 Fiber Art Show. Curtis Arts and Humanities Center.
1997 Fiber Arts Exhibition. Rule Modern and Contemporary. Denver, Colorado.
Fiber Arts Exhibition. US West. Englewood, Colorado.
14th Annual All Colorado Art Show. Curtis Arts and Humanities Center.
Greenwood Village, CO
1996 Fiber Celebration ’96. One West Art Center. Northern Colorado Weavers Guild.
Ft. Collins, Colorado. Handweavers Guild of America Award. Juried.
Vision/Revision. Loveland Museum /Gallery. Handweavers Guild of Boulder.
Loveland, Colorado. Juried.
Timeless Expressions. Convergence 96. Portland, Oregon. Juried.
Paper/Fiber XIX, Arts Iowa City, Iowa City, Iowa. Juried.
5th National Art Exhibition. Northern Colorado Artist Association. Ft. Collins, Colorado. Juried.
33rd Annual ART ZONE Exhibition. Jewish Community Center. Denver, Colorado. Juried.
18th Annual Vahki Exhibition. Galeria Mesa. Mesa, Arizona. Juried.
1995 Solo exhibit of “Migration”, the Utah 1% for Art Installation, and other tapestries.
Red Rocks Community College, Art Gallery, Lakewood, Colorado.
Fiber Arts. Core New Art Space. Denver, Colorado. Juried.
Craft America '95. Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut. Juried.
48th Central City Arts Annual. Juried. Invitation.
1994 Colorado State Fair. Fine Arts Exhibit. Juried. Pueblo, Colorado
Fiber Celebration '94. 20th Annual. Juror’s Award. Juried. Ft. Colllin, CO.
San Diego Art Institute 39th Annual International Juried Exhibition.
Central City 46th Annual Show. Central City, Colorado. Juried.
Intermountain Weavers Conference, Fiber Celebrated '93. Las Vegas, Nevada. National. Juried.
Northern Colorado Weavers' Guild. Fiber Celebration '93. Ft. Collins, Colorado. Juried.
Denver Jewish Community Center 32nd Annual Artzone Exhibition. Juried. 2nd Prize in Fiber.
l992 Central City 45th Annual Show. Central City, Colorado. Juried. Juror’s Award.
Bio
Patricia grew up on a dairy farm in upstate New York. She graduated from college with a degree in Spanish Language and Literature and attended graduate school at the University of Colorado. There she met and married Mark. They raised their two children in the mountains west of Denver, Colorado, where Patricia actively volunteered in their community.
They traveled and explored Mexico, developing an appreciation for its culture and people. Thus when Mark retired from teaching high school art, they decided to expand their horizons and move south to Zacatecas, a colonial city in the desert and mountains of north central Mexico, where they have happily resided for the last ten years.
Patricia is a woman enjoying her many roles and relationships, especially her children and grandchildren. She loves to read, listen to music, travel, explore her world, especially Zacatecas and Mexico. She finds pleasure in walking, cooking, studying cultures, mythology, and cosmology.
This weaver is partially self-taught and partially the beneficiary of many workshops offered by the Handweavers Guild of Boulder, CO and its fiber community.
Weaving tapestries and creating other fiber expressions is absolutely essential to her well-being.
Tejer tapices, teñir hilos y la creación de otras expresiones de arte textil son absolutamente esenciales para la bienestar de Patricia Dunn, artista/tejedora. Ella es autodidacta y el beneficiario de talleres ofrecidos por el Gremio de Tejedores de Boulder, CO y la comunidad de arte textil.Patricia creció en una granja lechera en el estado de Nueva York. Se graduó en SUNY Plattsburgh con una licenciatura en Lengua y Literatura Española y asistió a la escuela de posgrado en la Universidad de Colorado. Allí conoció y se casó con Mark. Ellos criaron a sus hijos en las montañas al oeste de Denver, Colorado, donde Patricia activamente participó como voluntario en su comunidad. Fue miembro fundador de la Biblioteca Pública del Condado Gilpin y fue elegida para el Gilpin Consejo Escolar.Juntos, Patricia y Mark viajaron por Nuevo México y más tarde México, desarrollando el amor por las culturas que habían sido una sola región en el suroeste de América del Norte. Cuando Mark jubiló de la enseñanza de las artes plásticas, cerámica y fotografía de preparatorio, les pareció muy natural para moverse a México. Eligieron Zacatecas, una ciudad colonial en las montañas semiáridas del centro-norte de México, donde han residido desde 1998.Patricia es una mujer disfrutando de sus muchos papeles y relaciones, en especial a su familia. Le encanta leer, escuchar música, viajar y explorar su mundo. Además de los placeres de caminar, cocinar, estudiar, la mitología y la astronomía son importantes para ella. Más que nada, Patricia entretejer los hilos en su vida logrando un lugar en donde las semillas o los relámpagos de inspiración están nutridos resultando en tapices, esculturas y harmonía con la gente la quién para ella, esté importante.
