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Artist Biography and Selected Resumé

Artist Kim H. Ritter, M.ED., holds her City and Guilds Certificates in Patchwork and Quilting and in Design from the London Institute of the Arts. She has art quilts in private and corporate collections worldwide including the Quilts, Inc. Corporate Collection,Red Bull Corp Collection and the Dansk Shoes Co. collection. Her work has appeared in Fiberarts Magazine, American Craft Magazine, Quilting Arts Magazine and FiberArts Design Book Six. Simply Quilts and NHK TV Japan have run TV segments on Ritter’s artwork. Kim is the author of Quick Quilting, a book for beginning quilters that has been published in four countries and translated into German and Russian.

She has been named a Texas Original Artist by the Texas Commission on the Arts. She is the 2007 Featured Artist at Texas Children’s Cancer Center. Kim has exhibited widely including such venues as The Fresno Museum of Arts, Museum of the American Quilters Society, Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts, New Harmony Gallery, Thirteen Moons Gallery, Katie Gingrass Gallery, Chalk Farm Gallery and Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian.

Selected international and national exhibitions which have toured Ritter’s work include “Quilt National 05”, “Women of Biblical Proportions” “Spirit & Strength: 2003 The Husqvarna Viking Gallery of Quilt Art,” “I Remember Mama,” “Fine Focus 02,04 and 06,” “Tarot Art Quilt Project,” “A Page from My Journal,” “911: Las Artistas Reaccionan,” “Masterpieces: A Voyage of Self Expression,” “America: From the Heart,” and “The Roots of Racism: Fear and Ignorance

Ritter serves as Co-Director and Curator of Fine Focus 06, 04 and Fine Focus 02, small format art quilt exhibits which tour museums nationally for two years. She was this year’s Juror for Celebrate Spring at the International Quilt Festival in Chicago. She was also one of the Curators of Focus: Materials and Meaning, a small format art quilt invitational exhibit at Mixed Bag Gallery in Houston. She was the volunteer coordinator for America: From the Heart, an exhibit of quilts in response to September 11th. She served two terms on the board of the International Quilt Association as Vice-President of Membership and has volunteered extensively for Studio Art Quilt Associates.

Selected International and National Touring Exhibitions

"Quilt National 05"

"Women of Biblical Proportions"

"Spirit & Strength: 2003 The Husqvarna Viking Gallery of Quilt Art,"

"I Remember Mama," "Fine Focus 02,04 and 06"

"Tarot Art Quilt Project"

"A Page from My Journal," "911: Las Artistas Reaccionan"

"Masterpieces: A Voyage of Self Expression"

"America: From the Heart"

"The Roots of Racism: Fear and Ignorance"

Selected Publications

2005 "Drill Team" Best of SAQA CD

2005 "Seamstress" I Remember Mama C&T Publishing

2005 "Spirit Horses" Quilters Newsletter, May 2005

2004 "Resurfacing" Quilters Newsletter Magazine

2003 "Smooth As Silk" Simply Quilts Episode #903, HGTV

2002 "New Tears", Quilters Newsletter Magazine,

2002 "Lady of the Lake" Fiberarts Magazine Jan/Feb 2002

2002 "New Tears" Quilting Arts Magazine Jan/Feb 2002

2001 "Quilts: An American Story" NHK TV JAPAN

2001 "Face Value" June/July Issue of American Craft Magazine

2000 "Resurfacing" Fiberarts Design Book Six

Bibliography

2002 "Artists React To Tragedy" Fiberarts Magazine, March/April 2002

1997 Quick Quilting, Quilt Digest Press (US) Merehurst-Fairfax (UK) Harper-Collins (Australia) and BLV (Germany)


Selected Collections

Dansk Shoes

Quilts, Inc. Corporate Collection Houston, TX

The Arts Alliance Center Clear Lake, Houston, TX

Sharkey Collection, Prague, Czech Republic

Mary Anhaltzer Collection, Santa Fe, NM