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
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.
