Waiting, Jacquard tapestry, Cotton, 47 x 56 in. Photo by D. James Dee.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA, Betty Vera: Urban Textures
2017 Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO, Betty Vera: Urban Textures
2014 Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA, Betty Vera: Hiding in Plain Sight
2012 Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, Bridge 12: Betty Vera
2008 Charleston Heights Art Center, Las Vegas, NV, Betty Vera: Ephemeral Expressions
2007 Queens College Art Center, NY, Between: Woven Images by Betty Vera
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020 Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA, Threaded: Contemporary Fiber in New England
Westbeth Gallery, New York, The Gold Standard of Textile and Fiber Art
2019 New Hope Arts, New Hope, PA, For the Love of the Loom—The Fine Art of Weaving
2018 San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA, Excellence in Fibers
Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA, Eclipse Annual Exhibition
Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA, Cross-Section: Fiber Artists Transcending Tradition
2017 Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA, Out on a Limb: How New Ideas Push Change
2016 Eastern Michigan University Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI, New Fibers 2016 (Pat Williams Award)
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY, Transgressing Traditions: Contemporary Textiles by the SDA
2015 Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, Extreme Fibers: Textile Icons and the New Edge
Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA, Look Carefully: Lois Linet and Betty Vera
2014 Paper City Studios, Holyoke, MA, Texture and Substance: Contemporary Fiber Art
2013 Procida, Italy, Procidamerica: Il Senso di Luogo (A Sense of Place)
2012 Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY, Fantastic Fibers
2011 Courtyard Gallery, World Financial Center, New YorkCity, Crossing Lines: The Many Faces of Fiber
Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY, Woven Stories: Contemporary Tapestries
Hardee Center for the Arts, Madison, FL, Silent Spaces: John Ros and Betty Vera
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, Fiberart International 2010
Rochester Contemporary Art Center (NY), Northeast Regional Contemporary Fiber Exhibition
Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA, Terra Entwined: Mark Lightfoot, Betty Vera
2010 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts / Society for Contemporary Craft, Fiberart International 2010 (Director's Award)
Harper college, Palatine, IL, Small Works, 33rd Annual National Juried Art Exhibition
Concordia University Ann Arbor, MI, Kreft Center for the Arts, Creative Adaptation in the Visual Arts (Third Place)
2006 University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, 9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition; traveling through 2008
2004 A.I.R. Gallery, New York, Textile Study Group of New York, Fiber for the Future (Best in Show)
1999 New York State Museum, Albany, Contemporary New York State Crafts
1998 American Craft Museum, New York, 9x9x3 (traveling, 1999–2001)
American Craft Museum, New York, Urban Textures (Featured Guest Artist)
1996 Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, Craft Forms '96 (Jurors' Award)
COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
The Kitano Hotel, New York
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Walbro Corporation, Cass City, MI
Palisades Presbyterian Church, Palisades, NY
Private collections: New York; Boston; Philadelphia;
San Francisco; Pittsburgh; Washington, DC;
Scottsdale, AZ; Westport, CT; Deer Isle, ME;
Princeton, NJ
AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2018 A.R.T. Award, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
2012 New York Foundation for the Arts, NYFA MARK 12
2010 Artist Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA)
Silvio and Eugenia Petrini Grant, Handweavers guild of America
Strategic Opportunity Stipend, New York Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts
2009 Strategic Opportunity Stipend, New York Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts
2002 Excellence in Sculpture Award (Graduate), Montclair State University
1997 Ruth Chenven Award, Ruth Chenven Foundation
New York State Craft Artist Grant, Empire State Crafts Alliance
1994 Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center
1991 New York State Craft Artist Grant, Empire State Crafts Alliance
Artists Space, New York
1990 Artists Space, New York
1988 New York State Craft Artist Grant, Empire State Crafts Alliance
PROFESSIONAL
1984–present Studio Artist
2015–present Weaving Instructor, The Studios at MASS MoCA Residency Program, North Adams, MA
2015–2018 Weaving Instructor, North Adams Makers’ Mill, North Adams, MA
2015, 2012 Studio Instructor, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh
2015 Founding Board Member, North Adams Makers’ Mill, North Adams, MA
2013, 2001 Instructor, Eastern Great Lakes Fiber Conference
2011 Instructor, Contemporary Handweavers of Texas Conference
2011, 2009 Instructor, Mid-Atlantic Fiber Association Conference
2010 Visiting Artist, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Visiting Artist, NSCAD University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2007, 2003 Instructor, Intermountain Weavers Conference
2006, 2004 Instructor, Peters Valley Craft Center, Layton, NJ
2004–2006 Adjunct Fiber Arts Instructor, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
2002–2005 Adjunct Fibers Instructor, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
2005 Instructor and Juror, New England Weavers Seminar
2004 Juror and Workshop Leader, HGA Convergence
2000 Instructor, Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, TX
1997, 1991 Instructor, Harrisville Designs, Harrisville, NH
1992 Instructor, The Penland School, Penland, NC
1986–1987 Weaver, Michelle Lester Studiio, New York
1979–1986 Editor, Art and Craft Books, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York
EDUCATION
2011, 2010 Jacquard Tapestry, The Jacquard Center, Hendersonville, NC
2008 Jacquard Tapestry, The Jacquard Center, Hendersonville, NC
2003, 2001 Jacquard Weaving, Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles
2002 M.F.A. in Studio Art, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
2000 Jacquard Weaving, Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles
1982–1983 Jacquard Design and Surface Design, Parsons School of Design, New York
1979–1982 Woven Textile Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
1966 B.F.A. in Painting, cum laude, The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
1962–1964 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale