CONTENT COPYRIGHT 2020 LORI LABERGE
Architectural Geometric Hooked and Painted Art
SELECTED RESUME (full resume available upon request)
EDUCATION:
Trinity College, B.S. Psychology, Art History, Art Therapy participant
Penland School of Crafts – color, handwoven rugs, geometrics in textiles
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2013 Contemporary Rug-Hooked Works, PAF Gallery, invitational, Siler City, NC
2011 The Stripe, TRAC Gallery, Burnsville, NC
2008 Styles of Hooked Rugs, NCAI Gallery, invitational, Siler City, NC
2008 Hooked Art, NCAI Gallery, featured artist, Siler Ciity, NC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024
The Nod: Pastiche Art, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC, July 5-August 28.
2023
Handcrafted 2023, Maria V. Howard Gallery, Rocky Mount, NC, January 13-April 16. Third Place Award.
2021
Build, Mend, Reconstruct, Barron Arts Center, Woodbridge, NJ, October 2-October 24.
2020
Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, August 9-October 4.
Fresh, Artspace, Raleigh, NC, online
2019
Architectonic, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO, July 26- September 13.
Handcrafted 2019, Maria V. Howard Gallery, Rocky Mount, NC, January 11-April 21. Juror: Wendy Earle, Curator, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. Merit Award: “Construction Quad”.
2017
Cut and Dyed, CVA Gallery, Invitational, Greensboro, NC , September 1-November 10.
2016
The City, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Mixed Bag: All Media Exhibit, HGA, Milwaukee Center, Milwaukee, WI
Landscapes: Four Ways, Invitational, TRAC Gallery, Spruce Pine, NC
2015
Biennial: Origins in Geometry, Museum of Geometric and MADI Art, Dallas, TX, juror: Eleanor
Heartney
2014
Hooked Art 2014, University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT, juror: Lee Kogan
Studio Exhibition, TRAC Gallery, Spruce Pine, NC
2013
A Fine Line: Contemporary Drawing, Morehead State University, Claypool-Young Art Gallery,
KY, juror: Anne Harris
2012
Pushing the Limits: New Expressions in Hooked Art, Sandy Hook, CT
The Cutting Edge, Desert Moon Design Gallery, Asheville, NC, Best of Show
2011
Pushing the Limits: New Expressions in Hooked Art, Sandy Hook, CT
Artistree in the Home, TRAC Gallery, invitational, Burnsville, NC
2010
Fall Celebration of the Arts, TRAC Gallery, Spruce Pine, NC, juror: Hank T. Foreman
Small Expressions International Exhibit, HGA, Albuquerque, NM, juror: Rebecca A. T. Stevens
2009
Masterworks, Carolina Designer Craftsmen, Raleigh, NC
Chatham Rabbit, N.C. Arts Incubator, Siler City, NC
2008
Fine Contemporary Crafts, Artspace, Raleigh, NC, juror: Tom Spleth
Textiles- Craftsmanship and Creativity, invitational, Andrews Art Museum, Andrews, NC
Handmade House at Ramble, show home, Grovewood Gallery, Asheville, NC
2007
Fiber Arts and Textiles, Chatham Arts Gallery, Pittsboro, NC
Room with a View, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
Spring Textile Exhibition, invitational, Alamance County Arts Council, Graham, NC
2006
Back to the Floor, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI Juror: Rebecca Stevens, Juror: Rebecca Stevens, Consulting Curator of contemporary textiles, Textile Museum,Washington, D.C
American Craft Council Spotlight, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY Juror: Bruce Pepich,
Executive Director and Curator of Collections for the Racine Art Museum
Annual Juried Show, Fine Arts League of Cary, Cary, NC
2005
Fall Fibers, Chatham Arts Gallery, Pittsboro, NC
2004
The Triangle’s Best Art, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Fabulous Forgeries, Jordan Hall Arts Center, Cary, NC
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES AND PANELS
2019 Merit Award, Handcrafted 2019, Maria V. Howard Gallery, Rocky Mount, NC
2018 Juror, Re-Imagined Challenge, Southern Hemisphere virtual exhibit, live show Sauder Village, Archbold, OH
2015 Panel presenter, TIGHR Conference, Victoria, Canada
2012 Best of Show, “The Cutting Edge”, Desert Moon Design Gallery, Asheville, NC
2006 Honorable Mention, Annual FALC Juried Show, Cary, NC
2006-2009 Resident artist, NC Arts Incubator
2005 Best in Show, First Place, NCSF, Raleigh, NC
2001 Best in Show, First Place, NCSF, Raleigh, NC
2001 National Award Participant, Art Underfoot, Orange County Arts Commission, NC
COLLECTIONS
Works held in private collections in U.S, Canada, Great Britain and Germany
PUBLICATIONS
2019 Eyes Wide Open To The World: memories of travel in wool, Karen D. Miller
2018 Rug Hooking Magazine, March/April/May, Lori LaBerge:New Roads, New Directions by Linda Rae Coughlin
2017 Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot, summer issue, Mixed Bag: All Media
2017 Guest Blogger- Green Mountain Rug School, Let the Outdoors Influence Your Hooking
2016 The Sentinel, June 15, Art: Museum Focuses on “The City”
2015 Exhibition Catalog, Geometric/Madi Museum, Biennial: Origins of Geometry
2015 Fiber Art Now, Summer issue, OnView, City Crossing
2014 The Laurel of Asheville, Visual Delights
2014 Exhibition Catalog, University of Connecticut, Hooked Art 2014
2014 Rug Beat, Hooking En Plein Air: An Outdoor Journey, author
2014 Toe River Studio Tour Catalog, cover art
2013 Rug Hooking Magazine, Sept/Oct, The Moods of Color and Value by Susan Feller
2012 Rug Hooking Magazine, Nov/Dec, Rocks and Rugs: When Opposing Textures Meet, author
2012 Rug Hooking Magazine, Sept/Oct, solo show exhibition book featured
2011 Rug Beat, Pushing the Limits
2011 The Stripe: Works Inspired by Rural North Carolina, solo exhibition catalog
2010 Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot, fall issue, Small Expressions article, wall piece
2008 Exhibition catalog, Artspace, Fine Contemporary Craft
2006 Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot, fall issue, Back to the Floor review, rug
2006 Our State Magazine, July, article on incubator artists
2005 Chatham Record, October, feature article
TEACHING
Green Mtn. Rug School
International Guild of Handhooking Rugmakers
TIGHR, panel member
Sauder Village
N.C. Arts Incubator
ASSOCIATIONS
Member of The 21 Collective
Invitational artist of American Craft Council
Carolina Designer Craftsmen, juried exhibiting member
TRAC juried artist member
Handweaver’s Guild of America (HGA)
The International Guild of Handhooking Rugmakers (TIGHR)
Surface Design Association
N.C. Arts Incubator, resident artist, gallery, work, jury committees 2005-2009
Piedmont Rug Hookers Guild, four year position as secretary
REPRESENTATION
Visual Index Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC