PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Surface Design Association (SDA) surfacedesign.org/
North Coast Artists’ Guild/Gualala Arts Center gualalaarts.org/
Textile Arts Council (TAC)/Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco [board member] textileartscouncil.org/
Pacific Textile Arts pacifictextilearts.org/
Creative Sonoma creativesonoma.org/artist/mirka-knaster/
Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA
Discovery Gallery Artists Collective, Gualala, CA
PUBLICATIONS
My books and articles have been published academically and commercially since the 1970s in a variety of fields. I have served as a contributing editor and consulting editor for magazines, journals, and encyclopedias.
* Article on bojagi and Youngmin Lee: https://www.throughourhands.co.uk/2017/01/28/bojagi-traditional-and-contemporary-fiber-art-from-korea/
* Textile Society of America blog (2014): https://textilesocietyofamerica.org/6416/a-citys-history-and-a-familys-history-woven-together-in-poland
* Art blog since January 2014: exploringtheheartofit.weebly.com/; continued at mirkaart.com/exploringtheheartofit/
* "So You're Thinking of Blogging," SAQA Journal (parts 1 and 2, winter and spring 2015)
* "Papermaking in Bhutan," Fiber Arts (vol. 36, no. 1, summer 2009)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
* On the Move: Migration/Emigration/Immigration, Burnett Gallery, Gualala Arts Center, Gualala, CA, October 7- November 21, 2022. Co-curator.
* East-West Conversations in Fiber, Sierra Arts Gallery, Reno NV, July 2 - 31, 2018. Curator.
* Korean Voices in Fiber: Translating Tradition into Contemporary Art, traveling exhibition: EBHQ Voices in Cloth, Craneway Pavilion, Pt. Richmond CA, March 17 -18, 2018; Gualala Arts Center, Gualala CA, October 6 - November 18, 2017; Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol CA, July 28 - September 3, 2017; Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Carmichael CA, June 6 - 25, 2017. Co-curator with Misik Kim (Seoul).
* Inspirations II (SAQA, Northern California/Northern Nevada), FiberSpace, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose CA, April 30 to June 26, 2016. Co-curator.
SELECTED INTERVIEWS AND CATALOGUES
* KGUA-FM. soundcloud.com/kgua/on-the-move-migration-emigration-immigration-rc?si=a1e05fb6043e4e7ba8bb5b5350892c31&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
* Beyond Words (2022). Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, catalogue
* From Conception to Creation, textileartist.org/, interview
* Artists' Talk of Falling Open Exhibit at Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes, CA
* 10x10x10xTieton (2019), Mighty Tieton Warehouse Gallery, Tieton, WA, catalogue
* Featured artist (September 2017), Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA. berkeleyartcenter.org/#/mirka-knaster-sept-2017/
* Sabbath: The 2017 Dorothy Saxe Invitational. The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, catalogue
* The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of the Art and Craft Exchange between Two Towns, Omachi and Mendocino (2017), catalogue in Japanese and English
* Taiwan International Quilt Exhibition 2016; Save the Environment, Taiwan Art Quilt Society, Tainan City, Taiwan, catalogue in Chinese and English
* Strata: New Work from SAQA, Harrington Gallery, Pleasanton, CA (2015) and Metro Gallery, Reno NV (2016), catalogue
* Featured artist, TextileArtist.org. textileartist.org/mirka-knaster-interview-intuitive-and-improvisational
* KGUA-FM.. soundcloud.com/listentothedrift/the-gypsy-mirka-knaster-2311
AWARDS/GRANTS
Art Surround/Creative Sonoma, public art grant, 2022-2023
First, Second, Third Place and Honorable Mention in more than a dozen exhibits.
SYMPOSIUM and RESEARCH/TRAVEL PROJECTS
* Dharma and the Arts Symposium, co-organizer and presenter, Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Barre, MA (April 2016)
* Korea Textile Tour (2016-2018), fiber arts tour organized and led by Mirka Knaster, Youngmin Lee, Lissa Miner
* Cross-cultural research projects in Asia and Latin America (funded by Ford Foundation) leading to three published books and many articles informing my background in traditional arts in these cultures.
PRESENTATIONS/WORKSHOPS/WEBINARS
* Public conversation with textile artist Cynthia Brannvall, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco (May 14, 2022) moadsf.org/event/artist-talk-emerging-artist-program-presents-cynthia-aurora-brannvall-in-conversation-with-mirka-knaster
* Alice Beasley: Having Her Say, video premiere and artists’ conversation, Textile Arts Council, Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco (August 15, 2021)
* Threads of Splendor: Korean Culture and Art (presentation), North Suburban Needle Arts Guild, Ltd., Chicago, IL (November 2019)
* Composing in Small Spaces: Benefits and Joys of Mini-Art (workshop), North Suburban Needle Arts Guild, Ltd., Chicago, IL (November 2019)
* Creativity & Textile Cards (talk & workshop) Suwon, South Korea (October 2016)
* Fiber Arts of Korea (presentation) Pointless Sisters, Santa Rosa, CA (February 2018)
* Textile Arts of Japan (presentation) Pacific Piecemakers Quilt Guild, Gualala, CA (2014)
* Textile Arts of Japan (presentation) Pointless Sisters, Santa Rosa, CA (2013)
FIBER ART EVENTS
As co-chair (ending in 2023) of the Tours & Workshops Committee of the Textile Arts Council, Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, I was involved in organizing online and in-person workshops and exclusive guided tours of fiber art exhibits in the Greater Bay Area: Bedford Gallery (Walnut Creek), Berkeley Art Museum/Film Archive, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, San Jose Quilt & Textile Museum, Asian Art Museum, et al.