CV

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015
High Strung, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Totems, Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

2014
Paper Trail, Glendale Community College, Glendale, CA

2012
Stripes and Checks: Stripe Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

2009
The Audacity of Stripes, LUX Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE
Away with Words, Blue Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2008
Dots and Stripes, Mount Madonna Gallery, Watsonville, CA

2007
Text and Leaves, Highlands Gallery, Carmel, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019
Flashpoints: Material: Intent: Fused, Piedmont Arts, Martinsville, VA, curated by Reni Gower
Fiberarts International, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA, jurors: De Boer, Knodel, Johnson
Earth Paints
, Greenspace Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
Take Aways, PVA Gallery, Watsonville, CA

2018
Take Aways, PVA Gallery, Watsonville, CA,

2017
Collections, MAH, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
Take Aways, PVA Gallery, Watsonville, CA

2016
The Art Party, Santa Clara Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA
Collections, MAH, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
Abstract Santa Cruz
, R.Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
Take Aways, PVA Gallery, Watsonville, CA
High Fiber, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
11th Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ

2014
Visual Language, Slate Contemporary, Oakland, CA
Art Miami Basel, Queer Biennial, Hotel Gaythering, Miami, FL
Works on Paper, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
Papercuts, traveling exhibition: Purdue University, Indiana, IN
Paper, Waterstone Gallery, Portland, OR
I Can’t Believe it’s Fiber, Museo Gallery, Langley, WA,

2013
Papercuts, traveling exhibition: Florida Atlanta University, Boca Raton, FL; Hollins University,
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Roanoke, VA; The University of Akron, Myers School of Art,
Akron, OH; Tinnery Contemporary, Nashville, TN
Encaustic and Paper, Artworx Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

2012
Papercuts, traveling exhibition: Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA; Columbus State University,
Columbus, GA; Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN
Art 4 Art, R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
Snippets:Visual Texts, R & F Handmade Paints, Kingston, NY
Repeat!, Santa Cruz County Bank, Santa Cruz, CA
The Art of the Rydell Fellowship 2006-2009, PVAC Gallery, Watsonville, CA
Fazination Papier,, traveling exhibition-2011-1012, Curated by Helene Tschacher:
Kunstverein Burghausen, Germany; Forumkunstundhandwerk Mainburg, Germany;
Paper Museum and Paper Mill in Duszniki Zdroy, Poland; Odenwaldmuseum Michelstadt,
Germany; Papiertechnische Stiftung München, Germany; “Pflegschloss” Schrobenhausen,
Germany; “Le Chapelle” Le Vigan – Paper Biennial -France; Kunstverein Stade, Germany; CEPI
(European Paper Industrie) Brussels, Belgium; Unimog Museum Gaggenau, Museen
Schrobenhausen, Germany

2011
Papercuts, Space 301, Mobile, AL, curated by Reni Gower
Mini Textile Exhibition, June, Kherson, Ukraine
Encaustic With a Textile Sensibility, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT

2010
Paper Road, Wonju Hanji Museum, Wonju, South Korea
Waxing Lyrical, Mercy Gallery, Loomis Chafee School, Windsor, CT
Rydell Fellows, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

2009
National Fiber Directions, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS
Yuma Symposium Artists, Yuma, AZ
High Fiber, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Sculpture Is, PVAC Gallery, Watsonville, CA
Wire We Here, Museo Gallery, Langley, WA
ECO-Morphosis, Santa Cruz County Bank, Santa Cruz, CA
Yuma Symposium Group Show, Yuma Center for the Arts, Yuma, AZ
Fourth Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Metamorphosis-Juried Encaustic Works, Haydon Art Center, Lincoln, NE
Paper Invitational-Museo Gallery, Langley, WA
Rydell Fellowships Exhibition, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

2008
Sum of the Parts, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
The Diptych Project-Wax East-Wax West, Brian Marki Fine Art, Portland, OR

2007
X-07 Director’s Choice, MM Galleries, San Francisco, CA
Waxed, Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA
Stand-Rugs by Artists, Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA
Hot Stuff, First National Encaustic Painting Conference Exhibit, Montserrat College of Art, Boston, MA
Here and Now Encaustics and Time, MM Galleries, San Francisco, CA
Off The Grid: New Directions in Wax, Lauryn Taylor Gallery, Carmel, CA
N9ne-Contemporary Wax, Las Vegas Contemporary Arts Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Fiber Art International 2007, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburg, PA
Sum of the Parts, SDA Conference Exhibition, Kansas City, MO
10th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

2006
Exemplary Contemporary, Smith Gallery, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA
The Fine Art of Textiles, PVAC Gallery, Watsonville, CA
Hot Wax, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Oil and Wax, Marin MOCA, Novato, CA

20th CENTURY
Small Works, The Pope Galley, Santa Cruz, CA, 1995
Fiber and Photo Invitational, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA, 1987
Emerging Talent, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 1978
Fiberworks, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1977
Second International Exhibition of Mini Textiles, London, England, 1976
Seventh International Biennial of Tapestry, Musée Cantonal, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1975
Fiber Works, Scripps College, Claremont, CA 1973

SELECTED COMMISSIONS AND COLLECTIONS
Hanji Paper Museum, Wonju, South Korea
Bank of Missouri Permanent Collection, Kansas City, MO
Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
Sanctuary Resort and Spa, Phoenix, AZ
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Atlanta, GA
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Hyatt Kuilima Hotel, Honolulu, HI
Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Blue Cross of Southern California Permanent Collection, Agoura, CA
Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Hilton Hotels Collection, Atlanta, GA and Baton Rouge, LA
J.L. Hudson, Dearborn and Novi, MI
Firemans Fund, Novato, CA
Marcel Schurman, Inc., Fairfield, CA
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
The Heart Association, San Jose, CA
The Center to Develop Women Entrepreneurs, San Jose, CA
Jantzen Inc., New York, NY
KCET Public Television, Los Angeles, CA

BOOKS PUBLISHED
The Encaustic Studio-A Wax Workshop in Mixed-Media Art, Interweave Press, Ft Collins, CO, 2012
Encaustic With a Textile Sensibility, Waxy Buildup Press, Santa Cruz, CA, 2010

INSTRUCTIONAL DVDS
The Encaustic Minimalist, streaming online 2015
Encaustic With a Textile Sensibility, 2009
Encaustic + Paper, with Judy Stabile and Wendy Aikin, 2010
The Encaustic Studio-companion DVD to book, 2012

PUBLICATIONS
“Papercuts Exhibit Presented in All Three Galleries at Purdue,” July 21, 2014, The Exponent online
“Profiles in Publishing for Encaustic,” Encaustic Institute, Summer 2012
“Daniella Woolf, Artist Profile,”Textile Artist online magazine, August 2013
“Daniella Woolf, Artist Profile and Cover,” Cloth Paper Scissors, Summer 2012
“Paper in the ‘Hood,” Surface Design Journal, Summer 2011, and IAPMA Journal, Summer 2012
“Affinities: Fiber and Wax,” Surface Design Journal, Winter 2011
“Daniella Woolf,” Somerset Studio, January, 2010
“Daniella Woolf,” Surface Design Journal, Winter 2009
“Woman of Wax,” Santa Cruz Sentinel, October 3, 2008
“Encaustic: Translucent Layering with Wax,” FiberArts, Sept-Oct 2007
“Gail Rich Awards,” Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 7, 2007
“The Fine Art of Textiles,” Santa Cruz Sentinel, May 5, 2006
“Tapestry Biennial at Lausanne,” Craft Horizons, October 1975
“California Crafts,” Town and Country, May,1975
“Taking the Edge Off”, Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, Oct 27, 1974
“Redefining our Living Spaces,” Artweek, November 9, 1974

CATALOGS

Paper Trail, Glendale Community College, Glendale, CA, 2014
Rydell Visual Arts Fellows, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA, 2009
Fourth Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 2009
High Fiber, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2009
Paper Works Invitational, Museo Gallery, Langley, WA 2009
Fiberart International, Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, PA, 2007
Fiberworks, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 1977
2nd International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles, British Craft Centre, London, England,1976
7th Biennale Internationale de La Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal Des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland 1975
Fiberworks, Scripps College, Claremont, CA 1973

EDUCATION
M.A. Design (Textile Structures), UCLA, Los Angeles, CA,1973
B.A. Art, California State University, Northridge, CA,1970

AWARDS
2008 Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship
2007 Gail Rich Award for Excellence in the Arts in Santa Cruz

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
International Encaustic Artists (past board member)
International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (past board member)
Surface Design Association

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California, 2017
Cabrillo College Extension, Aptos, California, 2017
Paperworks, Tucson, Arizona 2017
Wax Works West, Corralitos, California, 2016
TAFTA Textile Forum, Geelong, Australia, 2014
Reverse Garbage, Sydney, Australia, 2014
Maiwa Textile Symposium, Vancouver, B.C., Canada 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017
Pacific Northwest Art School, Coupeville, WA, 2011, 2012, 2014
Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX, 2012
Glendale College, Los Angeles, CA, 2011
Bennington College for North Country Studio Workshops, Bennington,VT, 2010
Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA
Masseria della Zingara, Puglia, Italy
Chapman and Bailey, Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia, 2011
Parker’s Fine Art, Sydney, Australia, 2011
Fiber Arts, Ballarat, Australia, 2011
Warengah Printmakers, Sydney, Australia, 2011
Papermakers of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 2011
Art Center in Jackson Hole, Jackson Hole, WY
Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Haley, ID
Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO
Zideldings Textile School, Tilburg, The Netherlands
San Francisco State University, Surface Design Association Conference, San Francisco, CA 2010
Kansas City Art Institute, Surface Design Association Conference, Kansas City, MO 2009
Spiro Arts, Park City, UT
LUX Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE
Cabrillo Arts, Aptos, CA 2006, 2013
R and F Paints, Comprehensive Encaustic Instructor 2008-2013 CA, WA, WY, UT, CO
Wax Works West Studio, Corralitos, CA ,2006-present

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
WAX: Contemporary Encaustic Works, PVAC Gallery, Watsonville, CA, 2012
Encaustic With A Textile Sensibility, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT, 2011

PRESENTATIONS
“Unplanned Obsolescence,” TAFTA Textile Forum, Geelong, Australia, 2014
“Crossing a Line,” Maiwa Textile Symposium, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 2012
“Starting a School for Encaustic,” International Encaustic Conference, San Antonio, TX 2012
“Encaustic as a Medium,” “Encaustic Origami,” and “Collage on a Heated Palette,”
International Encaustic Conference, San Antonio, TX, 2012
“Limiting Options for Creativity,” IEA Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2011
“Encaustic With A Textile Sensibility,” Curator’s Gallery Talk, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT, 2011
“Encaustic for Papermakers”, IAPMA Conference, 2010, Wonju, South Korea
“My Life in Waxy Buildup,” Yuma Symposium, Yuma, AZ , 2009
“Waxy Buildup-EWATS,” Third Encaustic Conference, Montserrat College of Art, Boston, MA, 2009
“Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility,” Second Encaustic Conference, Montserrat College, Boston, MA, 2008
“Collaborati,” First Encaustic Conference, Montserrat College of Art, Boston, MA, 2007
“30 Years of Work before Waxy Buildup,” Pajaro Valley Gallery, Watsonville, CA, 2006
“Medium for a Material Girl,” Sesnon House, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA, 2006

 

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