Unscripted: Fiber Improvisations
by Bonnie Bucknam
on display September 1st - 25th

 

The 610 Arts Collective is pleased to present Unscripted: Fiber Improvisations by Bonnie Bucknam of Montrose, CO.​ Join us for an Artist Reception on Friday, September 4th, from 5 - 7 pm, where guests will have the opportunity to meet the artist, learn about their creative processes, and enjoy an evening surrounded by extraordinary handmade artwork.

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Bonnie Bucknam graduated from California State University Long Beach with a degree in Anthropology and Geology. Shortly after graduation she moved to Alaska, where she lived for 31 years. She worked as an archaeologist and warehouseman building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and was a legal assistant at the Alaska Attorney General’s Office in Anchorage. In 2006, Bonnie retired from legal work and moved to Vancouver, Washington, and in 2022 relocated to
Montrose, Colorado.

Bonnie’s work Crater won Best of Show at Quilt National 2011 and is now part of the Quilt National Permanent Collection at the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska. Bonnie’s work has been shown in numerous exhibits in the United States. In 2015, Bonnie’s work was in a year-long solo exhibition at the Portland Oregon International Airport. She was a solo artist at the Visions Museum of Textile Art, San Diego, in 2019.

 

Internationally, Bonnie’s work has appeared in the Haus der Wirtschaft museum in Stuttgart, Germany, the Museum of Modern Art in Verona, Italy, and other venues in Germany, England, Ireland, France, Japan, Brazil, and the Netherlands. Bonnie’s work Tangle is part of the permanent collection of the Tuch + Technik Textilmuseum, Neumunster, Germany. She has work in the Patchwork Design Contemporaneo Collection in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the State of Alaska’s Art Bank.