Glenda Richardson

Education

 
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Cum Laude) , Howard University, 1975
Master of Information Science, The Catholic University, 1981

Memberships

African-American Quilters of Baltimore (Elected  President in 2017)

Black Artists of DC
Studio Art Quilt Associates  
Women of Color Quilters Network

Collections

Permanent Collection of the Benjamin Banneker Museum, Catonsville, MD
Permanent Collection Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Museum, Baltimore, MD 

Exhibitions

Current and Upcoming

2020

Repurposeful: Glenda Richardson and Rosalind Robinson, Steveson University, Owings Mills, MD
January 21 - April 4


2018

Human Rights in the New Millenium: Quilting the World's Conscience, Fitton Center for the Arts, Hamilton OH
August 17

Serendipity: A Thought, A Musical Note... , Howard University Interdisciplinary Research Building, Washington, DC
June 21

Mindfulness: Celebrating Women Quilter/Fiber Artists, Baltimore City Hall
March 14 - April 4

2017

And Still We Rise: Race, Culture, and Visual Conversations, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
July 8 - September  24

Artists and Makers Studios Presents Black Artists of DC, Rockville, MD,
July 7-July 27

We Who Believe in Freedom (Organized by the Black Artists of DC), Pepco Edison Gallery, Washington, DC
April 10 -28

 
2016


Peace by Piece: Traditional and Contemporary Quilts by the African American Quilters of Baltimore, James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
July 8 - September 11


Conscience of the Human Spirit: The Life of Nelson Mandela, National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, OH
April 7 - October 7

And Still We Rise: Race, Culture, and Visual Conversations

Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, VA
September 9 - December 31, 2016

Bruce Museum, Greenwich. CT
January 16 - April 24


2015

Conscience of the Human Spirit: The Life of Nelson Mandela, The Kentucky Museum, Western Kentucky University
September 8 - January 31 2016

And Still We Rise: Race, Culture, and Visual Conversations

Bullock Museum, Austin, TX
June 19 - August 30


2014

Conscience of the Human Spirit: The Life of Nelson Mandela,International Quilt Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa
July  

2013

Fibrous, Gallery W, Whitney Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
November

Contemporary Quilts from From Traditional Textiles, Dei Center for the Study of Contemporary African Art, Accra, Ghana
October 13 - 28 

And Still We Rise: Race, Culture, and Visual Conversations, National Underground Railroad Freedom ,Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
October 12, 2013 - March 29, 2014

2012

A New Legacy Revealed: African-American Fiber Artists, as part of the International Quilt Festival- Houston, TX

November 1-4

Mermaids and Merwomen in Black Folklore, City Gallery at Waterfront Park, as part of MOJA Festival, Charleston, SC

August 28 - October 28

Mermaids and Merwomen in Black Folklore, North Charleston Arts Festival, North Charleston, SC

Enduring Threads: Fiber Stories of the African American Quilters of Baltimore, James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University

August 19 - September 6

2011

Sacred Threads, Church of the Epiphany, Fairfax, VA,

2010

Twenty Years of a Pieceful Passion, The African American Quilters of Baltimore, James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University

2009

Dreamers, Visionaries, and Leaders, Victor Valley Museum and Art Gallery, Apple Valley, California

Hampton Arts League Members Exhibit, Charles H. Taylor ArtsCenter, Hamtpon , VA

2008

Voices in the Cloth, African American Quilters of Baltimore, The Waldorf School of Baltimore, MD

2006

Painting in Stitches, African American Quilters of Baltimore, The Waldorf School of Baltimore, MD

Maritime Quilt Display, Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Museum, Baltimore, MD

2004

African American Art Quilters, G Street Fabrics, Rockville, MD

Publications


Wall Art: Artistry in Fiber Vol. 1, by Anne Lee and E. Ashley Rooney, Schiffer Publishing, 2017

Threads of Social Justice: Conversations with Merill Comeau, Chichio & Giannone, and Glenda Richardson
   Fiber Art Now, Spring 2016, pp 42-46

When Old Becomes New: For Maryland Artisans, Recycling the Past Enlightens the Future, by Kit Waskom Pollard
   Baltimore Sun, November 22, 2015

And Still We Rise: Race, Culture and Visual Conversations, by Carolyn Mazloomi, Schiffer Publishing  2015 

Black Mermaids in Vision and Verse, edited and conceived by Torreah "Cookie" Washington, 2012