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brief bio

Betty Busby played at "Arts and Crabs" with her two little sisters as a small child, and continued her obsession through graduation from the Rhode Island School of Design, with a ceramics major.

She founded and operated a ceramic tile manufacturing firm in Los Angeles, and sold it after 18 successful years in order to move to New Mexico to raise her son.

She is a published fiber artist and teacher, and maintains a busy exhibition schedule nationally and internationally.

resume

Betty Busby
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Email: fbusby3@comcast.net
Website: bbusbyarts.com

selected exhibition history

• American Quilter’s Society Paducah, Judge’s Award, 2008
• Art Quilt at the Chandler Center for the Arts, 2007, 2008
• World Quilt Show Xll, Best of United States, 2008
• International Quilt Association “Celebrate Spring”, award, 2009, 2008
• Art Quilt: Cultures, Judge’s Award, 2008
• Pacific International Quilt Festival, Honorable Mention, 2006
• Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta, first place, 2006
• Threadlines, second place, 2008
• “My World in Black & White”, Gitner-Moore Memorial Award, 2009
• “Sense of Time” SAQA show
• Northern New Mexico Quilt Fiesta, first, third place, judge’s award 2008
• Mid Atlantic Quilt Festival, Best Pictorial, 2009
• MQX, Judge’s Award, 2008
• American Quilt Expo, Des Moines, Ia, 3rd place, 2008
• Road to California, 3rd Place, 2009
• Quilt Odyssey, Judge’s Award, 2008
• National Quilting Association, Judge’s Award, 2008
• International Quilt Association, Houston, 2008, 2009
• Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta, Best of Show, Best Pictorial, Best Quilting awards 2009
• Quiltscapes at the Whistler, best in Show, 2009
• The Brush Art Gallery, 2009
• American Quilter’s Society Quilt Expo, first place, 2009

• Denver National Quilt Exhibition, second place, 2009
• Art Quilt: Transitions, 2009, 2 awards. Cary, NC.
• Fuller House Gallery, Los Alamos, Impressions Show, Judge’s Award 2009
• Gallery 101 Main in Collinsville, Connecticut
• TAQS in Taiwan
• Johnson’s of Madrid, New Mexico
• Sacred Threads, Ohio

professional organizations

• Studio Art Quilt Associates
• American Quilter’s Society
• Quilt Visions
• International Quilt Association
• Rio Rancho Art Association

publications

• AQS Calendar cover 2009
• SAQA Portfolio 15, cover, 2008
• Quilting Arts Magazine, “Beaded Trees”, 2009
• Machine Quilting Unlimited, “Reflections”, 2009
• Textile Arts, spring 2010
• American Quilter, pending

education

• Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Rhode Island
• Graduated 1974 with a BFA in Ceramics
• Kansas City Art Institute 1973

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