SERIES OF WORK: (some series overlap in years)

2006-2023 Reflections handwoven linen

sub-series:

Soundings 2019-2022

Chromatic Meditations 2017-2019

Pulse 2016-2017

Book of Hours 2014-2015

Illuminations 2012-2013

East/Pacific/West 2010-2011

The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca 2008-2009

Land and the Sacred 2006-2007

2006-2023 Meditations no more than 7″ in any direction, handwoven painted paper strips

2000-2005 Prayer 8′ high, handwoven linen

1996-2000 Reverence coiled threads with rock

1984-1995 Celebration handwoven linen, cotton, and metallic thread

1979-1986 Ryoan-ji coiled constructions, waxed cotton on rebar, rod, and wood dowels

1976-1980 Cycle coiled raffia sculptures

1973-1975 Fecund 7′-12′ sculptures, finger-crocheted sisal, coir, seagrass etc.

SELECTED EXHIBITS with two to three years of work:

2019 Chromatic Meditations: Claire Campbell Park, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, Maryland

2018 Claire Campbell Park and Josh Goldberg, Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

2016 Claire Campbell Park, Barbara Jo, Kathryn Polk, Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

2013 Focus: Five Women, Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

2012 East/Pacific/West: Confluence Mary Babcock, Claire Campbell Park,
and Nancy Tokar Miller, Bernal Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

2008* Land Art and the Sacred: Three Perspectives, DY Begay, Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi, and Claire Campbell Park, Bernal Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

2004 Claire Campbell Park: Weavings, Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

2002 Claire Campbell Park & Ilze Aviks, Yavapai College Gallery, Prescott, Arizona

2000 Nancy Hoskins & Claire Campbell Park, Gallery at Wellage & Buxton, Cincinnati, Ohio

1999 Gems ’99, Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

1990 Claire Campbell Park, Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

1985 Claire Campbell Park & Paul Stein, Art Network, Tucson, Arizona

1980* Arizona Crafts Award Exhibit, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona

1980 Claire Campbell Park, The Clay and Fiber Gallery, Taos, New Mexico

1978* Emerging Artists ,MFA Exhibit, Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, California

1976 MA Exhibit, Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, California

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS:

2023 EXPO Chicago with Goya Contemporary, Chicago, Illinois

2020 Picturing 2020: A Community Reflects, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona

2020 Longevity, Reyes Contemporary Art, Phoenix, Arizona

2019 IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, Goya Contemporary, New York, New York

2019 & 2018 Art Miami with Goya Contemporary, Miami, Florida

2004-2019 Annual Small Works Invitational, Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

2016 Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, Arizona

2015 String Theory: Contemporary Art and the Fiber Legacy, Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona

2012 Red: a Juried Invitational, Temple Gallery/ Etherton Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

2007 Graphicas Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

2001 Telos International Postcard Competition, second place award, exhibited in Australia, Japan, the Netherlands and the web; sponsored by Telos Fine Art Publishing, Winchester, England

2000* Made in California 1900-2000: Art, Image, and Identity, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

1999 Collection of the Szombathely Kunsthalle, Nyiregyhaza, Hungary

1998* 12th International Biennial of Miniature Textiles, Szombathelyi Képtár, Hungary

1997* New Baskets: Expanding The Concept, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, Missouri

1995 Exploring Along the Outer Edges: Sculptural Basketry, Craft Alliance, St.Louis, Missouri

1993* State of the Art : Contemporary Fiber, The Loveland Museum, Loveland, Colorado

1992 Arizona Artists, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona

1991 Contemporary Arizona Textiles I, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1991*Fiber National ’91, Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, New York

1989 Diverse Directions, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

1988* Spotlight88: Southeast/SouthwestCrafts, Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

1988-90 Arizona Tapestry Today, This exhibition originated at the Coconino Center for the Arts in Flagstaff, Arizona and traveled to sites throughout Arizona for two years. It also traveled to the Las Vegas Art Center.

1987* International Textile Competition ’87, Kyoto, Japan

1987* Paper/Fiber X The Arts Center, Iowa City, Iowa

1985* Fiber Structure National IV, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California

1984 Happy Birthday Arizona, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona

1983 B.Z. Wagman Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri

1982* Arizona Biennial ’82, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona

1981 Gallery One, Fort Worth, Texas

1979-81* Miniature Fiber Arts; A National Exhibition, One of 30 American Fiber Artists invited to participate in this exhibit which originated in Santa Fe, New Mexico and traveled to ten sites; among them the Salt Lake Art Center, the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles.

1979* Arizona Crafts ’79, purchase award & awarded an exhibit, Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona

1978* Intent ’78: Fabrics, Edinboro State College, Edinboro, Pennsylvania

1977* Marietta College Crafts National, Marietta, Ohio

1976 Marna Johnson’s, Chicago, Illinois

* exhibits accompanied by a catalog

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

MAD Museum, New York, NY

Kunsthalle Szombathelyi, Hungary

The Karen and Robert Duncan Collection, Lincoln, NB

Tucson Museum of Art, AZ

The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, CA

The John Wells Collection / Process Museum, Tucson, AZ

Joyce and Myron LaBan, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Jeffrey Spahn and Paul Bontekoe, Berkeley, CA

Anne-Marie Russell, Sarasota, FL

Dan Leach, Tucson, AZ

Jane Stewart Laidlaw, Chicago, IL

Michele A Manatt and Wolfram Anders, DC

Marcia and Seymour Sabesin, Chicago, IL

Erin Younger and Ed Liebow, DC

Deborah Lovely, Naperville, IL

Ana Tello and Jeremy Mikolajczak, Valley of the Sun, AZ

R Andrew Maass and Ruth Borenstein, Longboat Key, FL

SELECTED LECTURES:

2021-2023, 2019 ongoing fortnightly or monthly, Living and Creating with Reverence, Canyon Ranch, Tucson, Arizona

2023 January 31 & 2019 September 10 Guest Lecturer Buddhist Influences on my Work forThe Light that Sustains Us: Exploring Art & Faith, University of Dayton, Ohio

2019 June 8 Understanding Color: Josef Albers, Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona

2019 March 16 Josef Albers in Mexico, gallery talks & lecture, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona

2015 April 15 & 2014 November 20 Guest Lecturer for Love in World Religions, University of Arizona, Tucson

2014 September 6 Friends of Fiber Art International, Hardesty Arts Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma

2013 February 28 & 2012 April 9 Tucson Museum of Art Docents, Tucson, Arizona

2012 September 22 Textile Society of America 13th Biennial Symposium, Washington, DC

2012 April 6 Guest Lecturer for Survey of Contemporary Art, University of Arizona

2012 March 9 Friends of Fiber Art International, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2011 March 22 Pima Community College Speaker Series, Tucson, Arizona

2011 September 23 Friends of Fiber Art, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston

2010 March 11 Volcano Art Center, Volcano, Hawaii

2010 March 7 East-West Center, Manoa, Hawaii

2010 March 2 University of Hawaii, Manoa, Hawaii

2006 September 11 South Australia School of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide

2006 September 28 School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania, Launceston

2004 October 8 Textile Society of America 9th Biennial Symposium, Oakland, California

2003 March 3-6 Apeejay College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar, India

1997 October 28 Design With Heart conference (keynote), Monterey, California

1997 January 14 New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey

1996 February 18 Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson

1995 June 13 Seian University of Art, Otsu, Japan

1993 March 6 The Loveland Museum, Colorado

1990 April 27 Arizona State University, Tempe

1990 April 17 University of California, Los Angeles

1987 November 8 World Textile Conference, Kyoto, Japan

1983 May 13 Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota

1983 April 1 Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

1981 November 9 University of California, Los Angeles

1981 January 28 Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona

1980 January 23 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France

1980 January 20 Ecole Municipale Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, France

1980 January 12 Museé des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris, France

1976 May 7 University of Wisconsin, Madison

AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS:

2020 Creating with Reverence: Art, Diversity, Culture and Soul, e-version, Sotol Books, Tucson

2012 Challenging the Politics of Creating Art in the 21st Century: An Artist/Educator’s Perspective, Textile Society of America, 12th Biennial Proceedings

2010 Creating with Reverence: Art, Diversity, Culture and Soul Sotol Books, Tucson. Used in university Studio Art, Anthropology, and Religious Studies courses and seminars.

2008 Land, Art and the Sacred: Three Perspectives exhibit brochure essay for the Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Tucson

2005 Appropriation, Transformation and Contemporary Fiber Art: An Artist’s Perspective, Textile Society of America, 9th Biennial Symposium Proceedings, Textile Society of America, Inc.

1995 Wrote entries for Neda Alhilai pg. 17, Lia Cook pg.133, Kris Dey pg.154, Jane Lackey pg.321, Gyongy Laky pg.323, Nance O’Banion pg.413-14, Anne Wilson pg.582, in North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century; A Biographical Dictionary, Edited by Jules and Nancy G. Heller, Garland Publishing, Inc., New York & London

1991 Our Future? Ourselves! FIBERARTS, pgs.21,22,27. Sept/Oct 1991, Vol.18, No.2: Asheville, North Carolina

1991 Finding the Link Between Fiber and Mixed Media pgs.39-43. FIBERARTS, summer 1991, Vol.18, No.1; Asheville, North Carolina

1980 The Weaving of Rural Arab Groups in the Tennsift River Region of Morocco. From the Far West: Carpets and Textiles of Morocco. The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.

1980 Technique, Material, Concept / Coiled, Raffia, Cycles. Textile/Art DRIADI, #14 December 1980; Paris, France

ARTICLES & REVIEWS:

Kirschner, Noelani “Claire Campbell Park” The American Scholar, April 29, 2019.

King, Alison “Bauhaus Celebrates 100 Years” Phoenix H&G, April 10, 2019.

Surdut, Beth “Woven Life” The Desert Leaf Vol 33, No 3, March 2019 pg. 68, 69, 71.

Regan, Margaret “Life, Interrupted” Tucson Weekly, October 17, 2013.

Shapiro, Barbara “Creating with Reverence” FiberArt Now, Vol 2, Issue 4, Summer 2013, pg. 7.

Alllen, Kathleen “Small Art Works Exhibit Has Big Names, Impact” Arizona Daily Star, May 30, 2013.

Regan, Margaret “Relationship to the Sublime” Tucson Weekly, March 1, 2012.

Shapiro, Barbara “Creating with Reverence” Textile Society of America Newsletter, Volume 22, No.3, 2011 Fall, pg. 13.

Hart, Lyn “Review: Land, Art and the Sacred:Three Perspectives” Tapestry Topics, American Tapestry Alliance, Fall 2008 Vol 34 No 3, pg. 17-18.

Regan, Margaret “Community and the Sacred” Tucson Weekly, February 14, 2008.

Regan, Margaret “Threads of Abstraction: Painterly Weavings By Claire Campbell Park Rethink the Use of Fiber As A Medium” Tucson Weekly, March 4 – March 10, 1999, pg. 30-31.

Shepley, Carol Ferring “Basketry: A View From the Outer Edges” Fiberarts, Sept/Oct 1995 Vol.22, No.2, pg. 56-57.

Aviks, Ilze “State of the Art: A Panel Discussion” Fiberarts, Jan/Feb 1994 Vol.20, No.4, pg. 8-9.

Editorial “Fiber Art Exhibit To Go On Display” Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald, Feb. 20-21 1993 pg. 9.

Eakin, Judy G. “Thoughts on The Loveland Exhibition” ITNET Journal, Summer 1993, pg. 22.

Stanfill, Silver “State of the Art: Contemporary Fiber” ITNET Journal, Summer 1993, pg. 20-21.

“State of the Art: Contemporary Fiber Loveland Museum/Gallery” Shuttle, Spindle, & Dyepot, Vol.XXIV No.2, issue 94, Spring 1993, The Handweavers Guild of America, Inc. pg. 33-35.

Funke, Teresa R. “Cultural Threads” Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado, March 7, 1993.

Orban, Nancy, editor Fiberarts Design Book IV, Lark Books, Asheville, North Carolina, 1991.

Kerlin, Thomas J. “Claire Campbell Park: Celebrating Color, Light, and Energy” Fiberarts, Vol.14, No.3, May/June 1987.

Hutchins, Jean, editor The Fiberarts Design Book II Lark Books, Asheville, North Carolina, 1983.

Lock, Donald “The Arizona Biennial ’82” Artspace, Fall 1982.

Thomas, Michel “Claire Campbell Park” Textile/Art DRIADI, #14 December 1980; Paris, France.

Vanderberg, Jan “Miniature Fiber Arts” Fiberarts, #1, 1980.

Lusk, Jennie “Miniature Fiber Arts: A National Exhibition” Interweave, Vol. IV, #4, fall 1979.

Liss, Peggy “Marietta College Crafts National” Craft Horizons, February 1978.

SELECTED OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2019 Presented two workshops, Color Explorations: Josef Albers, Tucson Museum of Art.

2017 Organized and led four day Tucson art tour for The James Renwick Alliance.

2016 Board member, Contemporary Art Society, Tucson Museum of Art.

2016 Organized three day Tucson art tour for Friends of Fiber Art International.

2013 Visiting artist/lecturer/workshop leader, Craftswomen Retreat Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

2012 Curator, East/Pacific/West: Confluence, Bernal Gallery, Tucson.

2010 Seminar, Creating with Reverence, FACE, University of Arizona, Tucson.

2010 Panelist, Then, Now, and to Be, SALA, University of Arizona, Tucson.

2008 Curator, Land, Art and the Sacred: Three Perspectives, Bernal Gallery, Tucson.

2006 Visiting artist/seminar, South Australia School of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide.

2005 Retreat leader, Seeing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary, Women’s Spirituality Retreat, Newman Center, Tucson.

2002 Visiting artist in residence, Apeejay College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar, India.

1998 Guest instructor, Graduate Seminar in Fiber, Arizona State University, Tempe.

1993 Panelist, State of the Art: Contemporary Fiber Symposium, Loveland Museum, Colorado.

1990 Chaired panel, Blueprints for Bridging Cultural Barriers, Mid-America College Art Association Conference, Tucson.

1989 Resplendent Diversity; Textiles of Morocco Old Pueblo Museum, Tucson. I curated and designed this exhibit.

1984-86 President of the Board of Directors, Tucson Visiting Artist Consortium.

1982-99 Member of the Board of Directors, Tucson Visiting Artist Consortium.

1981-82, 1986-88, 2013-2014 Chairperson of the Art Department, Pima Community College.

1980-82 American Correspondent for Textile/Art DRIADI, a journal based in Paris, France.

1980 Consultant for From the Far West: Carpets and Textiles of Morocco, which opened January 29, at The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C. and traveled for two years.

1978-2014 Full-time Faculty, Pima Community College, in Color, Fiber, and Basic Composition.

1976-78 Teaching Assistant, Art Department, UCLA.

EDUCATION:

1976-78 University of California, Los Angeles, M.F.A. Art

1973-75 University of California, Los Angeles, M.A. Art

1970-73 Scripps College, Claremont, California, B.A. Art