SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2022 Marilyn Pappas: A Retrospective, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2020 Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, MA with Jill Slosburg-Ackerman
2013 Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005 History Lessons, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York City
2001 Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia,PA
1999 Muses, Fletcher/Priest Gallery, Worcester, MA
1987 South Campus Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
1985 The Gallery at Rugg Road, Boston, MA
1980 Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
1980+82 Helen Shlein Gallery, Boston, MA.
1969 Sindelir Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
1968 University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
1964 Staten Island Museum, Staten Island, NY
1961 The Pennsylvania State University Gallery, University Park, PA
AWARDS and HONORS:
2019 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Artist Finalist Grant
2017 Contemporary Visions of Greece’s Golden Age, The Brush Art Gallery,
Lowell, MA, Juror’s Award
2007 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant
2007 Women’s Travel Club Scholarship
2003 The Artist's Resource Trust Fund Grant
1997 New England Foundation for The Arts Fellowship
1985 Outstanding Alumna Award, Massachusetts College of Art
1981 Massachusetts Artists Foundation Grant
1978-80 Bunting Institute Faculty Fellowship, Radcliffe College, Harvard University
1971 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1962 Young Americans, American Craft Museum, N.Y.C.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS of:
Ashville Art Museum, Ashville, NC
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Arts and Design, New York City
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ( Wornick Collection)
DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA (Saxe Collection)
Wilmington Trust, Wilmington, DL
The Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Harvard University,Cambridge,MA
The Staten Island Museum,NY
Palmer Museum, Pennsylvania State University, PA
Miami-Dade College, FL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2022 The Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, Renwick Gallery,
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
2021 Craft Front and Center, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
2021 Women Take the Floor, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2020 Objects USA: 2020, R and Company, New York, NY
2019 Off the Wall: American Art to Wear, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2019 De-lin-e-ate, Gravers Lane Gallery, Curator: Bruce Hoffman, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Contemporary Visions of Greece’s Golden Age, The Brush Art Gallery,
Lowell, MA
2016 10th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2015 50 Years of Works, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2014 9th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2012 8th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Crafting Modernism, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
2010 7th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Cut the Edge-Weave the Line, Mobelia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2009 The Shoe Fits, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA and traveling
2008 Mend: love, life and loss, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
2008 6th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Drawing the Line-20th Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts
2007-08 Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis, The Art of Conceptual Craft,
Selections from the Wornick Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2007 Dorothy and George Saxe Collection, M.H.DeYoung Museum, San Francisco,CA
2007 12th Triennial International Textile Exhibition, Central Museum, Lodz,Poland
2006 5th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2005 In the Narrative, Center for Creative Arts, St. Louis, Mo.
2005 Fiber-A New World View, National Gallery of the Irish Craft Council, Ireland
2004 Fiber Biennial 2004, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia,PA
2002 For Your Collection, The Attleboro Museum, Attleboro,MA.
2002 Uncommon Threads, The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester,NH
2002 Survey Fiber 2002, Snyderman/Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2001 New Forms in Fiber-Trends and Traditions, Mobelia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2001 Figural Works, Nancy Margolis Gallery, NYC
2000 Surface-Strength-Structure: Pertaining to Line, Snyderman/Works Galleries,
Philadelphia, PA
2000 Miniatures-2000, Helen Drutt: Philadelphia, PA
1999 Fashions and Fabric in the Classical Mode, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1999 Artist Couples, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
1998 Modus Operandi, Snyderman/Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
1998 Tick, Tick, Tick, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1996 The Eighth Triennial Exhibition, Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA
1996 National Showcase V, Alternative Museum, N.Y.C.
1996 Skirting The Issue: The Dress as Sculpture, Nexus Foundation for
Today's Art, Philadelphia, PA
1993 American Art Today: Clothing As Metaphor, The Art Museum at Florida
International University, Miami, FL
1992 Artists at Work, The Creative Process Made Visible, Newton Arts Center,
Newton, MA
1991 Between a Brick and a Hard Place, City Place Gallery, Boston, MA
1990 Classicism Reconsidered, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton,
1990 Raw Vision, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1989 Handmade Paper: Five Approaches, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
1989 Explorations in Handmade Paper: A Selection of Work from Rugg Road,
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1986 Collected Visions, Women Artists at the Bunting Institute Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Gallery, Boston, MA
1985 Gallery of the Boston Museum School, Boston, MA
1981 Local Visions: The Urban Environment, Hayden Gallery, M.I.T,Cambridge, MA.
1980 Worcester Craft Center, Worcester, MA
1976 Fairtree Gallery, N.Y.C.
1976 Krannert Art Museum, Urbana, IL
1975 Homage to the Bag, American Craft Museum, N.Y.C.
1974 Sculpture, Hard and Soft, Boston City Hall Gallery, Boston, MA
1973 Fairtree Gallery, N.Y.C.
1973 Xerox Exhibition Center Corp. Rochester N.Y.
1972 Gimpel Wietzenhoffer Gallery, N.Y.C.
1971 33 Miami Artists, Miami Art Center, Miami, FL
1971 Fabrications, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield, MI 1969 Objects USA
Johnson Collection of American Crafts, Smithsonian Institution (traveling USA & International, 1969-73)
1969 The Excellence of the Object, American Craftsmen's Council, NYC
1968 The History of Collage, Invitational, Kunstgewerbe Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
1966 Craftsmen '66, North Carolina Museum of Art Craftsmen USA 1966,
1966 International Exhibitions Foundation, 1966-68 traveling exhibition
1965 Fabric Collage, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, N.Y.C. and Museum West, San Francisco. CA; 5 Artist Invitational
1963 Craftsmen of the Eastern States, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, N.Y.C.
1962 J. Blumenfeld Gallery, N.Y.C.
1960 Young Americans, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, N.Y.C.
SELECTED BIBLEOGRAPHY:
Periodicals:
Summer 2022 (review) James Renwick Alliance for Craft, Craft Quarterly,
“Nevertheless She Persisted: Marilyn Pappas’ 60-Year Career” by Caroline Kipp
May/June 2022 Artscope, “Featured Museum: The Nexus of Contemporary Craft: McGough Leads Fuller Craft to its Next Chapter,” by Suzanne Volmer
2022 (review) Surface Design Journal, “Marilyn Pappas: A Restropective” by Caroline Kipp
April 10, 2022 Wonderland, “Marilyn Pappas Addresses Feminism, War, Beauty, Aging As She Draws With Thread”, https://gregcookland.com/wonderland/2022/04/10/marilyn-pappas April 2022 Wonderland, “Marilyn Pappas Addresses Fall 2015 Fiberart Now, “ Marilyn Pappas: Contemplating Beauty” by Marcia Young
September/October 2006 Fiberarts, "Sampling, A Showcase of the Human Form"
August 18, 2002 (review) Sunday Telegraph,Nashua, NH
August/September 2001 (profile) American Craft, "Marilyn Pappas" by Beth Frankl
May 24-31, 2001 (review) Philadelphia Citypaper
May, 2000 (review) Philadelphia Inquirer
May 28, 1999 (review) The Worcester Phoenix
May 31, 1998 (review) The New York Times
May 21, 1998 (review) The Hartford Advocate
May 11, 1998 (review) Journal Inquirer
Spring 1997 Radcliffe Quarterly
December 13, 1996 (review) The Boston Phoenix
October 13, 1996 (review) Boston Sunday Herald
September 20, 1996 (review) The Boston Globe
December 1994 (review) The New Art Examiner
September 28, 1994 (review) Manhattan Mercury, Manhattan, Kansas
June 2, 1992 (review) The Boston Globe
October/November 1991 (review) Art New England
October 3, 1989 (review) The Boston Globe
October/November 1989 American Craft
March 13, 1987 (review) The Boston Globe
1980 (review) Art New England
1963, '64, '67, (2 covers) School Art
1962, '64, '66, '69, (cover) '72, '76 Craft Horizons
Selected Catalogues and Books:
2022 Marilyn Pappas: A Retrospective, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2022 This Present Moment, Crafting a Better World, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, DC
2020 Accompanied, The Artwork of Marilyn Pappas and Jill Slosburg-Ackerman, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,
Harvard University
2020 Objects USA: 2020, Glenn Adamson, R and Company, New York, NY
2019 Off the Wall: American Art to Wear, edited by Dilys E. Blum, Philadelphia Museum of Art
in association with Yale University Press, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design, Jeannine Falino,
General Editor, Abrams, NY in association with Museum of Arts and Design
2007 Drawing the Line-20th Drawing Show Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts
2007 Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis, The Art of Conceptual Craft, Selections from the Wornick Collection,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2007 12th Triennial International Textile Exhibition, Central Museum, Lodz, Poland
2002 Uncommon Threads, The Currier Museum of Art,Manchester, NH
2002 Survey Fiber 2002, Snyderman/Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2001 New Forms in Fiber-Trends and Tradition, Mobelia Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
2000 Miniatures-2000, Helen Drutt: Philadelphia, PA
2000 Surface-Strength-Structure: Pertaining to Line, curated by Bruce Hoffman,
Snyderman/Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
1997 Voices and Visions: Arts at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College,1962-1997 ,
(co-editor and contributor)
1996 The Eighth Triennial, Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA
1994 East to West, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
1993 American Art Today: Clothing As Metaphor, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL,
Dahlia Morgan, Curator
1989 Explorations in Handmade Paper: A Selection of Work from Rugg Road;
by the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
1987 Marilyn Pappas, Mixed Media Works, South Campus Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College
South, Miami, FL with interview by Jill Slosburg-Ackerman and Bernard Toale
1986 Collected Visions, Woman Artists at the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
1984 The Collections, Bank of Boston, Western Massachusetts, N.A. Collection, Springfield, MA
1981 Art in Craft Media, The Haystack Tradition, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
1980 Marilyn R. Pappas, Recent Collages, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
1976 Craftforms, Brockton Art Center, Fuller Memorial, Brockton, MA
1973 Objects: Made in U.S.A., Kent State University, Ohio
1970 The Magic of Fibers, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan
1970 Objects: USA by Lee Nordness, The Viking Press, Inc., NYC
1969 American Art in Florida Collections, Lock Haven Art Center, FL
1968 Collagen, Kunstgewerbe Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
1966 Craftsmen: Southeast 66, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
1965 Fabric Collage, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, American Craft, NYC
1965 Drawings of the Masters-American Drawings by Bartlett Hayes, Shorewood NYC.
1963 Craftsmen of the Northeastern States, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
1962 Young Americans, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC
EDUCATION:
1960 M. Ed., The Pennsylvania State University
1952 B.S. Ed., Massachusetts College of Art and Design
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1995 Professor Emerita, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
1974-94 Professor, Three-Dimensional Fine Arts Dept., Massachusetts College of Art
1964-74 Associate Professor of Art, Miami-Dade Community College
1959-64 Assistant Professor of Art Education, The Pennsylvania State University
1956-59 Elementary Art Supervisor - State College, PA
1955-56 Elementary Art Supervisor - Cedar Falls, Iowa
1952-55 Elementary Art Supervisor - Needham, MA