Salley Mavor

Education:

1975-1978: Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Illustration
1973-1975: Syracuse University, Printmaking Dept.

Solo Exhibitions:

• 2024 – Bedtime Stitches, Upcountry History Museum, Greenville, SC
• 2023 – The Wee Worlds of Salley Mavor, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT
  Bedtime Stitches, Southeastern Quilt and Textile Museum, Carollton, GA
  Bedtime Stitches, Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Art Museum, La Conner, WA
• 2022 – What a Relief: The Art of Salley Mavor, Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk, ME
  Bedtime Stitches, International Quilt Museum, Lincoln, NE
  Bedtime Stitches, Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County, Moorhead, MN
• 2021 – Social Fabric, Upcountry History Museum, Greenville, SC
  Bedtime Stitches, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL
• 2020 – Bedtime Stitches, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA
• 2019 – Once Upon a Stitch, Cape Cod Museum of Art
  Liberty and Justice: The Sweet to Satirical Art of Salley Mavor,
  Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
• 2018 – Liberty and Justice: The Sweet to Satirical Art of Salley Mavor
  NE Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA
• 2017 – Salley Mavor: 25 Years of Picture Books, Falmouth Art Center, Falmouth, MA
• 2016 – Intertwined: Needle Art of Salley Mavor, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
• 2014 – Salley Mavor: Expressions in Stitches, Museums on the Green, Falmouth, MA
• 2011 – Salley Mavor: Sewn Stories, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT
• 2008 – Rhymes with Stitches, Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA
• 2007 – The Cow jumped Over the Moon, Thomas Dodd Center, UConn, Storrs
• 2002 – In the Heart, Thomas J. Dodd Center, UConn, Storrs, CT
• 1999 – The Storyteller, Muscatine Art Center, Muscatine, Iowa
• 1997 – Poetic Sampler, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit MA
• 1995 – Baa’s Relief, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA
  Mary Had a Little Lamb, Worcester Craft Center Worcester, MA
• 1982 – What a Relief, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

Pocketful of Posies Touring Exhibit 2010 – 2015

Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA; Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA;  Cape Cod Children’s Museum, Mashpee, MA; Muscatine Art Center, Muscatine, Iowa; Thomas Dodd Center, UConn, Storrs, CT; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Mashpee Public Library, Mashpee MA; Mahopac Public Library, Mahopac, NY; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Sturgis Public Library, Barnstable, MA; Foothills Arts Council, Elkin, NC; Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL;  Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature, Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno, CA; Plymouth Antiquarian Society’s Hedge House Museum, Plymouth, MA; New England Quilt Museum, Lowell MA; Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA; Gallery 65 on William, New Bedford, MA; Cotuit Library, Cotuit MA; Lexington Public Library, Lexington, KY; Cary Memorial Library, Lexington, MA; Newton Free Library, Newton, MA, Bel Air Library, Bel Air, MD, Upcountry History Museum, Greenville, SC.

Group Exhibitions:

• 2019 – The Art of Cute, Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk, ME
  Migration, Imago Foundation for the Arts, Warren, RI
• 2018 – Twisted, Twined and Woven: Contemporary Fiber Art
  Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA
• 2017 – Pathfinders: New Territories, Southern Utah Museum of Art
  Global Murmurs, Experience Fiber Art, Rochester, NY
• 2016 – Shaping Lives: The Transformative Art of the Figure, Reece Museum,
  ETSU, Johnson City, TN
  Fiber Innovations II, Parker Cultural, Arts and Events Center, Parker, CO
• 2015 – Fairy Houses of Highfield Hall, curator and exhibitor, Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA
    Fiberworks Plus, Cahoon Museum, Cotuit, MA
• 2014 – Art in Embassies Program, Baku, Azerbaijan
  Portals and Passageways: Environmental Sculpture Exhibit
  Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA
  Fiber in the Present Tense, Artworks!, New Bedford, MA
• 2013 – Innovations in Fiber Art VI, Sebastopol Center for the Arts
  New Legacies: Contemporary Art Quilts, Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO
  Fantastic Fibers, The Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
• 2012 – Told and Retold: Picture Book Artists from Studio Goodwin Sturges, Art Institute of Chicago
  Intimate Woods: A Celebration of Beebe Woods, Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA
  Picture This! Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
  RISD Icons: A Legacy of Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design
• 2010 – The Original Art Touring Exhibit, Society of Illustrators, New York, N.Y.
• 2009 – Imagination!: The World of Children’s Book Illustrators
  University of R.I., Providence., RI
• 2006 – Folks in Fiber, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA
• 2005 – Drawn to Stories, ArtWorks!, New Bedford, MA
• 2003 – Art & Literacy Exhibit, Univ. of Rhode Island
• 2002 – Still Playing With Dolls, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA
• 2001 – Textile Learning Center presents Book Art, American Textile History Museum
  Fantastic Fibers, The Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
• 1999 – Made in Massachusetts, The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
• 1998 – Family and Friends: Picture Books from Studio Goodwin-Sturges
  Art Institute of Chicago
  Beyond Once Upon a Time: A Celebration of Contemporary Children’s
  Book Illustration, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
• 1997 – Telling Stories with Pictures: The Art of Children’s Book Illustration, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
• 1996 – Tales Galore-The Fine Art of Children’s Books
  New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
  The Visible Narrative, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod Community College
• 1995 – Old Meets New-Sampler Art, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
  Fantastic Fibers, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky
• 1994 – DMC- International Embroidery Exhibit, traveling exhibit, Japan
• 1992 – Celebrating the Stitch, traveling exhibit
• 1986 – New Images in the Folk Tradition, Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, NH
  Needle Expressions ’86, The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA

Published Books:

• 2020 MY BED: Enchanting Ways to Fall Asleep around the World, HarperCollins
• 2015 Felt Wee Folk : New Adventures, C&T Publishing
• 2010 Pocketful of Posies, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co.
• 2006 Wee Willie Winkie, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co.
• 2006 Jack and Jill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co.
• 2005 Hey, Diddle Diddle, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co.
• 2005 Mary Had a Little Lamb, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co.
• 2003 Felt Wee Folk: Enchanting Projects, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co.
• 2001 In the Heart, HarperCollins
• 1999 The Hollyhock Wall, Candlewick press
• 1997 You and Me, Poems of Friendship, Orchard Books
• 1995 Mary Had a Little Lamb, orchard Books
• 1993 Come to My Party, MacMillan Pub. Co.
• 1991 The Way Home, MacMillan Pub. Co.

Awards:

2011 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for picture book illustration
2011 SCBWI Golden Kite Award for picture book illustration
2003 Juror’s Choice Award, New Legacies: Art Quilts
2003 Foreward Magazine Book of the Year Award, Gold for crafts and hobbies