Bio/Resume
Kate Lenkowsky
Author -- Contemporary Quilt Art: An Introduction and Guide, Indiana University Press, 2008. Selected by Forward Magazine as gold prize winner in its Art Book of the Year competition for books published by independent publishers.
Teacher -- Indiana University Textile Studies Area, School of Fine Arts, 2009
Lecturer -- Textile Museum, Washington, DC; Dept. of Art and Art History - Textile Studies, Baylor University; Burke Lecture, Indiana University School of Fine Arts, 2011
Juror -- Form Not Function, New Albany, Indiana, 2011; Quilt Visions 2012: Brainstorms, SanDiego, California
Curator -- Dialogues: Contemporary Responses to Marie Webster Quilts, 2016, Brett Waller Gallery in the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. Co-curator Niloo Paydar, Curator of Textile and Fashion Arts. Exhibit sponsored by Studio Art Quilt Associates.
Artist -- see below
Teacher -- Indiana University Textile Studies Area, School of Fine Arts, 2009
Lecturer -- Textile Museum, Washington, DC; Dept. of Art and Art History - Textile Studies, Baylor University; Burke Lecture, Indiana University School of Fine Arts, 2011
Juror -- Form Not Function, New Albany, Indiana, 2011; Quilt Visions 2012: Brainstorms, SanDiego, California
Curator -- Dialogues: Contemporary Responses to Marie Webster Quilts, 2016, Brett Waller Gallery in the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. Co-curator Niloo Paydar, Curator of Textile and Fashion Arts. Exhibit sponsored by Studio Art Quilt Associates.
Artist -- see below
Artist -- The artist has exhibited her work in national and regional textile and print exhibits since 2001. These include biennial exhibits of The Charm Club (Indiana), Studio Art Quilts Associates, Surface Design Association, and Bloomington (Indiana) Printmakers. Her quilt, Morning in Jerusalem, was selected for an exhibit of Hoosier Women Artists in 2020 and was on display at the Indiana Statehouse from February 2020 through 2022. Remembrance of the Fallen, a memorial to victims of the first world war, was selected for the biennual Sacred Threads exhibition of 2019 held in Herndon, VA. The Call to Service, a quilt honoring volunteer service to fellow Americans, hung for 10 years at the Commission for National Service in Washington DC and is now in the collection of Indiana University, installed at its Briscoe Civic Leaders Living and Learning Center. An early applique and embroidered quilt, For Everything There is a Season, hangs at Congregation Shaarey Tefilla, Carmel, Indiana. The Torments of Jonah was produced as a result of her participation in the Religion, Spirituality and the Arts Seminar 2019-2020, sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Council of Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. In 2021, Kate was selected a J.A.W. Breakers Fellow by The Amen Institute and created Miriam's Song while studying the biblical text with Rabbi David Markus. Other quilts and prints are in private collections.