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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Set Sail: Stripe Gallery, Santa Cruz, May 2012
The Audacity of Stripes, LUX Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE, 2009
Away with Words, Blue Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2009
Dots and Stripes, Mount Madonna Gallery, Watsonville, CA 2008
Text and Leaves, Highlands Gallery, Carmel, CA 2007

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Snippets: Visual Texts Feb 4-March 24, 2012, R & F Handmade Paints, Kingston NY
Repeat! Santa Cruz County Bank, Santa Cruz 2012
The Art of the Rydell Fellowship 2006-2009, PVAC Gallery 2012
Papercuts, traveling throughout southern US, curated by Reni Gower 2011-2102
Fazination Papier 2011-2012 touring Germany, Poland, Curated by Helene Tschacher
Mini Textile Exhibition, June 2011 Kherson, Ukraine
Encaustic With a Textile Sensibility, Kimball Art Center, Park City UT Summer 2011
Paper Road, Hanji Museum, Wonju South Korea, 2010
Waxing Lyrical, Mercy Gallery, Loomis Chafee School, Windsor, CT 2010
Rydell Fellows, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA 2010
National Fiber Directions, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS 2009
High Fiber, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2009
Sculpture Is, PVAC Gallery, Watsonville, CA 2009
Wire We Here, Museo Gallery, Langley, WA 2009
ECO-Morphosis, Santa Cruz County Bank, Santa Cruz, CA 2009
Yuma Symposium, Yuma Center for the Arts, Yuma, AZ 2009
Fourth Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2009
Metamorphosis-Juried Encaustic Works, Haydon Art Center, Lincoln, NE 2009
Paper Invitational-Museo Gallery, Langley, WA 2009
Rydell Fellowships Exhibition, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA 2009
Sum of the Parts, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 2008
The Diptych Project-Wax East-Wax West, Brian Marki Fine Art, Portland, OR 2008
X-07 Director’s Choice MM Galleries SF, San Francisco, CA 2007
Waxed, Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA 2007
Stand-Rugs by Artists, Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA 2007
Hot Stuff-First National Encaustic Painting Conference Exhibit, Montserrat 2007
Here and Now Encaustics and Time, MM Galleries, San Francisco, CA 2007
Off The Grid: New Directions in Wax, Lauryn Taylor Gallery, Carmel, CA 2007
N9ne-Contemporary Wax, Las Vegas Contemporary Arts Gallery, 2007
FiberArt International 2007, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburg, PA 2007
Sum of the Parts, SDA Conference Exhibition, Kansas City, MO 2007
10th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL 2007
Exemplary Contemporary, Smith Gallery, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA 2006
The Fine Art of Textiles, PVAC Gallery, Watsonville, CA 2006
Hot Wax, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2006
Oil and Wax, Marin MOCA, Novato, CA 2005

SELECTED COMMISSIONS AND COLLECTIONS
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Atlanta, GA
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Hyatt Kuilima Hotel, Hawaii, HI
Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Blue Cross of Southern California Permanent Collection
Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Hilton Hotels Collection, Atlanta, GA and Baton Rouge, LA
J.L. Hudson, Dearborn and Novi, MI
Firemans Fund, Marin, CA
Marcel Schurman, Inc.
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
The Heart Association
The Center to Develop Women Entrepreneurs
Jantzen Inc.
KCET Public Television, Los Angeles, CA
Sanctuary Resort and Spa, Phoenix, AZ

BOOKS PUBLISHED
The Encaustic Studio-a wax workshop in mixed-media art, Interweave Press 2012
Encaustic With a Textile Sensibility, Waxy Buildup Press 2010

PUBLICATIONS
Paper in the ‘Hood, Surface Design Journal, Summer 2011
Affinities: Fiber and Wax, Surface Design Journal, Winter 2011
Daniella Woolf: Somerset Studio Magazine, January 2010
Informed Source: Daniella Woolf, Surface Design Journal, Winter 2009
Woman of Wax: Santa Cruz Sentinel, October 3, 2008
Encaustic: Translucent Layering with Wax, FiberArts Magazine, Sept-Oct 2007
Gail Rich Awards, Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 7, 2007
The Fine Art of Textiles, Santa Cruz Sentinel, May 5, 2006

CATALOGUES
Rydell Visual Arts Fellows, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz 2009
Fourth Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2009
High Fiber, Conrad Wilde Gallery,Tucson, AZ 2009
Paper Works Invitational 2009-Museo Gallery, Langley, WA 2009
Fiberart International, Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, PA 2007

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
WAX: Contemporary Encaustic Works, PVAC Gallery, Watsonville, CA Spring2012
Encaustic With A Textile Sensibiltiy, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT Summer 2011

PRESENTATIONS
Starting a School for Encaustic, IEA Conference, San Antonio 2012
Limiting Options for Increasing Creativity, IEA Conference 2010 San Francisco
Encaustic for Papermakers, IAPMA Conference, 2010, Wonju South Korea
Everything Encaustic: Yuma Symposium 2009
Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility, 2009 3rd Encaustic Conference, Montserrat
Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility, 2008 2nd Encaustic Conference, Montserrat
Encaustic: Surface Design Conference, Kansas City Art Institute 2008
Collaborati, 2007 First Encaustic Conference, Montserrat College, Boston, MA
30 Years of Work before Waxy Buildup-2006, Pajaro Valley Gallery, Watsonville, 2006
Medium for a Material Girl, 2006 Sesnon House, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA 2006