Clairan Ferrono is a mixed media artist living in Chicago. She creates abstract art using commercial fabrics and cloth she produces using surface design techniques: dye, paint, print and stitch, both hand and machine. In 2004 she was awarded an exhibition grant by the IL chapter National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her work has appeared in Women in the Arts (Spring 2005) and in Craft Report (January 2007). One of her pieces appears in the book 500 Art Quilts. Currently three of her artworks hang in the American Embassy in Côte d’Ivoire. The curator of SAQA’s exhibits Reflections, and Sightlines, she also curates exhibits for Fiber Artists Coalition (FAC).

Selected Exhibits

2010 Small Expressions, HGA Convergence (Albequerque, NM)
Art Quilts Lowell, Brush Gallery (Lowell, MA)
Transitions Nat’l Exhibit, Center for the Creative Arts
(Fredericksburg VA)
2009 form not function, Quilt Art at the Carnegie (New Albany, IN)
12x12x122, BECA Gallery, (New Orleans, LA)
Small Expressions, HGA (Ridgeland, MS; Grinnell, IA)
Taiwan International Quilt Exhibition 2009 (invitational)
2008 Up in Stitches, Yeiser Gallery (Paducah, KY)
2007 Contemporary Women Artists, Mad Art Gallery (St.Louis, MO)
Elemental: Contemp.Quilted Art, Fiber Art Cntr, (Amherst, MA)
2006 On the Wall: SAQA @ Colorado Springs (CO Springs, CO)
Fine Focus 2006 Art Quilts, Yeiser Art Center (Paducah, KY),
Cornell Museum (Ithaca, NY), Coos Art Museum (Coos Bay,
OR), IQF (Chic, IL), Old Forge Art Center (Old Forge, NY)
2005 Expressive Stitch Invitational, Fairfield City Museum and
Gallery (Sydney, AU), Gallery 159 (Queensland, AU
AQA Exhibit Invitational, Hoeri Quilt Fest, (Konstanz, DE)
Full Spectrum solo show, Old Town Art Center (Chicago, IL)
2004 The Quilted Surface, Riffe Gallery (Columbus, OH)
National Women in the Arts Museum Exhibit, Gage Gallery
(Chicago.,IL ) Grant Winner