RECENT EXHIBITS
Woman Made Gallery, 24th International Open, 2023
Woman Made Gallery, “Roe 2.0, ‘It Ain’t Over Yet,'” 2022
Woman Made Gallery, “The Feminist Biennial,” 2022
Koehnline Museum of Art, “Our Bodies Our Health: Navigating the Wars Within and Around Us,” 2022
Woman Made Gallery, “Small Works Members Show,” 2022
ARC Gallery, “The Costs of War,” Chicago, 2022
The Art Center, Highland Park, “famil-E and Nature VS Nurture”, 2022
Woman Made Gallery, “Generations: 30 Years of Woman Made Gallery”, Chicago, 2022
The Art Center Highland Park, “The Thin Line,” Highland Park, IL 2021
ARC Gallery, “Go Make A Thing,” Chicago, 2021
i19 Gallery, “Sacred Strands: Art Exploring Connections,” Chicago IL
Koehnline Museum, “Bad@ssery: Women Creating a Just Environment and World,” Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL 2021
The Art Center Highland Park, “Of Time and Place,” Highland Park, IL, 2020
Stola Contemporary Art, “Imagine…Peace, Love, and Understanding,” Chicago, IL, 2020
Egg Strategy, National Building, Chicago, 2020
Woman Made Gallery, Midwest Open, Chicago, IL, 2020
Cabinet of Curiosity, Wheeling Forest Preserves and Heller Nature Center, Highland Park, IL, 2020
Woman Made Gallery, “Suffra-Jetting,” Chicago, IL, 2020
Stola Contemporary Art “Dump Trump,” Chicago, IL, 2020
Evanston Art Center 3-Woman Show, Evanston, IL, 2019
Koehnline Art Museum, “Where Are We Now?: Activism of the Everyday,” Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL, 2020
Koehnline Art Museum, “Fashioning the Self: You Are What You Wear?,” Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL, 2019
Koehnline Art Museum, ”Nevertheless She Persisted,“ Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL, 2018
Evanston Art Center, “Undefineable,” Evanston, IL, 2017
The Art Center Highland Park, Ecoart, Highland Park, IL, 2017
The Art Center Highland Park, “Voices and Visions,” Highland Park, IL, 2016
Womanmade Art Center, “Adorn,” Chicago, IL, 2015
Lillstreet Art Center, Holiday Fair, Chicago, IL, 2014
“Artrageous Chicago,” Best Textile, 2013
“Artrageous, Chicago, ”Best Textile, 2012
Avram Eisen Gallery, “Three Sisters,” Chicago, IL, 2011
Art UnderGlass, Evanston, IL 2011
COLLECTIONS
Illinois State Museum, Batik acquisition, 2021
AWARDS
Appointee, Mayor’s Council on Public Art, Evanston, IL,2010
Merit and Service Awards Mundelein College, 1988-1990
Talented Teacher Award, Whirlwind, Chicago, 1997
Chicago Teachers Union Executive Board Member, 2000-2004
Work used by Meda Parker Johnston, author of Design on Fabric, in lecture tours, 1975
PUBLICATIONS
Women Artists in the United States: A Selected Bibliography and Resource Guide in the Fine and Decorative Arts, 1750-1989, Paula Chiramonte, Ed. Boston, 1994; The Holocaust Memorial Project Catalogue, New Jersey 1981
GRANTS
Lyric Opera in the Classroom Program, 1999-2007
Music Institute of Chicago Arts Integration, Arts Link, 2000-2007
Donors Choose, From the Underground to Common Ground, 2007
Donor’s Choose, Reading for a song, 2007
Music Institute of Chicago Collaboration, 2002-2006
Outdoor Classroom Program, Chicago Park District, 2004-2006
Chicago Foundation for Education, 2001-2003
Art Resources in Teaching, 1994-2000
Chicago Board of Education, Art, 2000
Annenberg, 1997-1999
Shanti foundation, Conflict Resolution Through the Arts, 1997-1999
Chicago Board of Education, Music 1997
Illinois Arts Council, The Chicago Moving Company Dance in the Schools, 1996
PAST EXHIBITS
Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, Illinois, 1988
Prism Gallery, Evanston IL, 1987
Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL, 1985
Peace Museum, Chicago, IL, 1983
Northbrook Art Festival, Northbrook, IL, 1983
Holocaust Memorial Project, New Jersey, 1981
Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL, 1981
Third Annual textile and Needlework Show, Chicago IL Second Place, Chicago, IL, 1981
Second Annual textile and Needlework Show, Chicago IL Honorable Mention, Chicago, IL, 1980
Evanston Public Library, Evanston, IL, 1980
Jewish Folk Arts Fair, Chicago, IL, 1980
Midwest Craft Exhibition, Minnesota, MN, 1979
DePaul University Chicago, IL, 1979
Hubbard Street Gallery ,Chicago, IL, 1979
Skokie Public Library, Skokie ,IL, 1979
Illinois Fiber Arts Show Traveling Exhibition, 1978-1979
Illinois Fiber Arts Show Lakeview Museum, Peoria, IL, 1978
Hyde Park Arts Fair, Chicago, IL, 1978
The Gallery Workshop, Evanston, IL, 1976-1977
Three Illinois Center Chicago, One-Woman, 1974
Northwestern University, One-Woman, Center for Audiology, Speech, Language, and Learning, Evanston, IL, 1974
Michilini’s Gallery, Evanston, IL 1974
COMMISSIONS
Lucky Brand Jeans, California, 2007
Becky Bisoulis, Chicago, IL, 1985
Casa Zeus Solar Home Panels, Naperville, IL, 1988
Prop Artist for “Where Will We Play If The World goes Away?’ Chicago, IL 1982
Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation, Evanston IL, 1981
Ultimo, Chicago IL, 1978
Playboy Enterprises Chicago, Chicago IL, 1976
FREELANCE
Columbia College Gift Shop, Chicago IL, 2018
Lillstreet Art Center Gallery, Chicago IL, 2017
Stumble and Relish, Evanston IL, 2016
Evanston Art Center IL, 2014-2015
Homegrown Artists, Evanston IL, 2015
Art wear Unlimited, Highland Park IL, 2015
Stella, Evanston IL, 2015
Mostly Handmade, Evanston IL, 1979
Possibilities, Evanston IL 1979
The Gallery Workshop, Evanston IL, 1976-1978
The Artisan Shop, Wilmette IL, 1975
Early Man Museum Shop, Evanston IL, 1975
TEACHING
Rufus M Hitch Elementary School, Chicago IL 2010-11
Professor, Integrative Art Methods, National Louis University 2008–2010
Supervisor, M.A.T Student Teachers, Columbia College 2010
Integrative Art Specialist, School Specialty Company 2009-2010
Teacher for Center for Gifted 2009-2010
Columbia College Student Teacher Visual Arts Supervisor, Chicago IL 2009
National Louis University Adjunct Professor, Fine Arts, Chicago IL 2008
Brennemann Elementary School, Chicago IL 2007-2008
Chappell Elementary School, Chicago, IL 2000-2008
Jahn Elementary School, Chicago IL 1991-2000
Prescott Elementary School, Chicago IL 1991-1992
LaSalle Academy, Chicago IL 1991
Potowatomi Day Camp, Evanston Recreation Department, Evanston IL 1984-1985
Evanston Township Adult Recreation Department 1983-1990
North Lakeside Cultural Center, Chicago IL 1988
Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park IL 1987-1988
Instituto del Arte San Miguel de Allende, Mexico 1972
EDUCATION
M.A. Columbia College, Education, Chicago IL, 1994
B.A. Mundelein College, Art, Music, Education, Chicago IL, 1990
Vocal Studies
Dorothy Dwight, Mundelein College, Chicago, IL, 1990-1994, Orna Arania, Northwestern University, 2010
Dance Studies
Alwin Nikolais/Murray Louis Dance Theater School, New York City, New York, 1968-1969
Ballet Folklorico, Mexico City, Mexico, 1968
Evanston School of Ballet, Evanston, IL, 1969-1970
Master Class, Murray Louis, Columbia College, Chicago IL, 1970
Master Class, José Greco, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1970
Narrator, “Three Dreams,” Ray, Wilding White, World Premier, WFMT Radio Continental, Bank Concert, 1989
Narrator, “The Last Contrabass in Las Vegas,” Eugene Kurtz, DePaul University Recital by Bradley Opland, Assistant Principal Bassist, CSO, 1988
Deborah Hirshfield 