Marty's Résumé

Marty Ornish
marty.ornish@gmail.com
619.300.2251

INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

• "Toward 2050 Labyrinth Community Project," www.dbg.org, created and organized by Ann Morten, Phoenix, Arizona, 2025.
• "The Wise Crone," The Garden, International 6000 Circle Project and The Calling (International Art Initiative), Participants: Tila Wellens. Nicole Levin, Vesta Gheibi, MartyO, Shona Winslow; Photography: Harsha P, Geraz do Lima, Portugal, 2024.
• “TalkTen Travels 2025 – 2026,” (Group Exhibit), a traveling exhibit with Quiltfest.com beginning with Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton, Virginia.
• "Honoring The Feminine," California Women's Caucus for Art, 6000 Circle Project and The Calling (International Art Initiative), Los Angeles, 2024.
• “Epic Expressions: Shahnameh by Seven Female Artists,” Mingei International Museum, Curator: Sasha Furlan, San Diego, 2024.
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• “A Splendid Decennium: Victorian to Vanguard, the Art of MartyO”, Curator: Marty Ornish, The Gaslamp Museum at the Davis-Horton House and The Villa Montezuma Museum, San Diego, California, 2024.
• “Household/Poetry in Cloth, TalkTen Travels” (Group Exhibit), a traveling exhibit with Quiltfest.com, beginning with the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton, Virginia, 2024-2025.
• “The Last Group Show, Bread & Salt Gallery, San Diego, California, November 2023.
• Kimono Reimagined (group exhibit), Visions Museum of Textile Arts in collaboration with San Diego Mesa College Fashion Program, San Diego Japanese Friendship Garden Pavilion, December 1, 2022 – February 24, 2023.
• Fiber-Fashion-Feminism, The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, Illinois, April 29 benefit event, Artist’s reception May 20, 2022, theartcenterhp.org
• Household (a Talk Ten group exhibit), Visions Art Museum Spotlight Gallery, San Diego, 2022
• Kimono Reimagined, Anna Walton/MartyO ensemble, Visions Art Museum and San Diego Mesa College Collaboration project, Visions Art Museum rotating exhibit March 2022; San Diego Japanese Friendship Garden Pavilion exhibition, November – January 2023
• MartyO Upcycled (Featured Artist), Road2California, Ontario Convention Center, Ontario, California, January 2022
• Solo Exhibition, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California, October 30-January 24, 2021.
• Southern California Contemporary Quilts, Oceanside Museum of Art, Curator: Beth Smith, Oceanside, California, 2020
• Featured Artist, 12th Expo Patchwork 2020, Quilters de México, World Trade Center, Mexico City, Mexico, 2020.
• Stories in Cloth, Solo Exhibit, Visions Art Museum, San Diego, California, 2019-20.
• “She Votes” altered book project, Bonnie J. Smith, Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art, 2020.
• Unbound: Contemporary Rope Art, Highfield Hall & Gardens, Curator: Marcia Young, Falmouth, Massachusetts, 2019.
• Featured Artist, Aigu’illes-en-Luberon: Emes Rencontres Internationales de Patchwork Et D’Art Textile, Curator: Nathalie Locquen, Grambois, France, 2019.
• Featured Artist, 24th Le Carrefour Européen du Patchwork (EPM), Exposition Manager: Lysiane Held, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France, 2018.
• Salk Institute Women in Science Fashion Show, Salk Institute for Biologic Studies, Curator: Susan Lazear, La Jolla, California, 2017.
• Second Time Around Fashion: Recycled Invitational Wearable Art, Visions Art Museum, Curator: Susan Lazear, San Diego, California, 2013.
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JURIED EXHIBITIONS

• “ARTwear,” Fiber Art Now, Visions Museum of Textile Art, San Diego, California, 2025 – 2026.
• Coronado WDC Exhibition, "A Foot Forward: Art Has No Boundaries," Juror: Kelly Purvis, Coronado, California, 2024-2025.
• Southern California Women's Caucus for Art, "A Woman's Voice in a Pivotal Time," Juror: Kim Abele, Los Angeles, California, 2024.
• Mid-Atlantic Quilt Fest, 2024.
• PPM 2023, “Welcome to My World”, Featured Artist, Brno, Juror: Irena Klugarova, The Czech Republic, 2023.
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• Naderwelt 2023, “Welcome to My World”, Featured Artist, Juror: Josephine Ohl, Karlsruhe, Germany, 20023.
• World of Threads Festival, The Gallery of Queen Elizabeth Park Community Centre, Curators: Gareth Bate & Dawne Rudman, Oakville, Canada, 2023.
• Elegant Threads, Lighthouse Art Center, Tequesta, Florida, 2023.
• Influencers/Influenced: California Fibers Group Exhibition, Craft in America, Curator: Emily Zaiden, Los Angeles, California, 2023.
• Westcoast Textile & Fiber Arts, Escondido Arts Partnership, Juror: Heather Bowling, Escondido, California, 2023.
• De tentoonstellingen van de Patchwork & Quiltdagen, Textnet2 group exhibit, Rijswijk, Netherlands, 2023.
• Best of the Festival, Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, La Conner, Washington, 2022.
• Fiber & Book Art Festival, Escondido Arts Partnership Municipal Gallery, Juror: Renee Bareno, Escondido, California, 2022.
• Pacific International Quilt Festival, Judge: Julia McLeod & Linda Schmidt, Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California, 2022.
• Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Arts Festival, Judges: Drew Betz & Amy Green, Everett, Washington, 2022.
• Words Matter, The Art Center Highland Park, Illinois, 2021.
• Naderwelt 2022, Textnet2 Group Exhibit, Naderwelt 2022, Karlsruhe, Rheinstetten, Germany, 2022.
• Le Carrefour Européen du Patchwork (European Patchwork Meeting), Textnet2 Group exhibit, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France, 2021.
• Uncommon Threads, The Fine Line Creative Arts Center, St. Charles, Illinois, October 2021.
• H x W x D: Celebration, 3-D Art, San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center, 2021.
• Re-Envisioned, Escondido Arts Partnership Municipal Gallery, Escondido, California, 2021.
• Old Myths New Stories, Curtis Center for the Arts, Greenwood Village, Colorado, 2020.
• Night of the Living Art: An Art After Dark Fashion Extravaganza, Oceanside Museum of Art, California, 2020
• Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, Indiana, 2020.
• OURstory: Human Rights Stories in Fabric, The National Quilt Museum, Paducah, Kentucky, 2020.
• West Coast Fiber & Book Art, Escondido Arts Partnership Municipal Gallery, Escondido, California, 2020.
• The Second half: 50 and Over Show, Las Lagunas Gallery, Laguna Niguel, California, 2020.
• Beyond The Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, England, 2020, www.thefestivalofquilts.co.uk.
• Intergalactic, Shockboxx Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 2020.
• Ancient Art Quilt Exhibition, Emerald Art Center, Springfield, Oregon, 2020.
• A Stitch to Wear, Allegany Arts Council, Cumberland, Maryland, 2019.
• Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton, Virginia, 2019.
• OURStory: Human Rights Stories in Fabric, traveling exhibition, 2018–2021.
• Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, California, 2018.
• International Quilt and Fiber Arts Festival, Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, La Conner, Washington, 2018.
• World of Threads Festival, The Gallery of Queen Elizabeth Park Cultural Centre, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, 2018.
• The Festival of Quilts Exhibition 2017, Birmingham, England, 2017.
• Strings Attached (Exhibit and Runway Show), Coastline Art Gallery, Newport Beach, California, 2017.
• Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie, Carnegie Center for Art and History, New Albany, Indiana, 2017.
• Untethered Thread, SAQA Southern California/Southern Nevada Regional Exhibit, Poway Center for the Performing Arts, Poway, California, 2017.
• Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta Quilt Festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2017.
• The Time Machine, a national juried exhibition of original wearable art, D’Arts Center, Norfolk, Virginia, 2017.
• Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton, Virginia, 2017.
• Wearable Expressions: 7th International Juried Exhibition, Rancho Palos Verde Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, 2017.
• International Quilt Festival, Special Exhibition: Tattered Splendor, sponsored by SewingMachinesPlus.com, George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas, 2016.
• International Quilt and Fiber Arts Festival, La Conner, Washington, 2016.
• EcoCreations 7, Arts Longmont, Longmont, Colorado, 2016.
• Best of the Festival Exhibit, La Conner Quilt and Textile Museum, La Conner, Washington 2015.
• Pacific International Quilt Festival XXIV, Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California, 2015.
• International Quilt and Fiber Arts Festival, La Conner, Washington, 2015.
• Quilt!Knit!Stitch! Recycled Apron Special Exhibit, Portland, Oregon, 2015.
• Fantastic Fibers 2015, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky, 2015.
• XXVI Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival XXVI, Hampton, Virginia, 2015.
• XXIII Pacific International Quilt Festival XXIII, Santa Clara, California, 2014.
• XXII Pacific International Quilt Festival XXII, Helen Powell, Santa Clara, California, 2013.
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AWARDS

• Viewer’s Choice, “Shy Lisbeth Breaks Out of Her Shell,” Elegant Threads, Lighthouse Art Center, Tequesta, Florida, 2023.
• Award of Excellence for Best Original Design and First Place for Wearable Art, “Shy Lisbeth Breaks Out of Her shell,” Pacific Northwest International Quilt Festival, Everett, Washington, 2022.
• Award of Excellence, “A-Dressing Shame,” Southwest Regional Surface Design Association, Juror: Annie Lopez, Tubac Center of the Arts, Arizona 2022.
• Best in Show, Wearable Art, “She gazed at the carousel through rose-colored glasses,” Pacific International Quilt Festival, Judges: Julia McLeod & Linda Schmidt, Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California, 2022
• Best in Show, “Love, Honor, Obey,” Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Judges: Bobbie Berquist, Paula Golden, Hampton Roads Convention Center, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 2022.
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• Second Place, “Anja experiences enlightenment at the Ryōan-ji garden,” Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Judges: Bobbie Berquist, Paula Golden, Hampton Roads Convention Center, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 2022.
• First Place, “Biased” (renamed “shy Lisbeth breaks out of her shell”) H x W x D: A 3-D Celebration of Art, San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center, California, 2021.
• Grand Prize, “Ajna experiences enlightenment at the Ryōan-ji garden,” Night of the Living Art fashion show, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California, 2020.
• Honorable Mention, “Love, Honor, Obey,” Old Myths, New Stories, Curtis Center for the Arts, Greenwood Village, CO, 2020
• Best of Show, “she gazed at the carousel with rose-colored glasses,” Form, Not Function, Carnegie Center for Art and History, New Albany, Indiana, 2020.
• Short-Listed, “Let me mend your ways,” Quilt Creations category, Beyond the Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, England, 2020.
• Best of Show, “Let me mend your ways,” Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Wearable Art, Hampton, Virginia, 2019.
• First Place, “Night Visions,” Full Ensemble, Pacific International Quilt Festival, Wearable Art, Santa Clara, California, 2018.
• Honorable Mention, “Still crazy after all these years,” Full Ensemble, Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton, Virginia, 2017.
• Award of Excellence, “All Tied Up,” Recycled Materials, 15th International Quilt and Fiber Arts Festival, La Conner, Washington, 2016.
• Second Place & Third Place, unnamed wearable art, Upcycled Garments, San Diego Mesa College Golden Scissors Fashion Show, San Diego, California, 2016.
• Award of Excellence, “Abstract of Recollections,” Recycled materials, and Honorable Mention, Wearable Art, International Quilt and Fiber Arts Festival, La Conner, Washington, 2015.
• Viewers’ Choice, “All Tied Up,” Wearable Art, Pacific International Quilt Festival XXIV, Santa Clara, California, 2015.
• Best of Show, “Circle Game 1957,” Wearable Art, Mid-Atlantic Quilt Show XXVI, Hampton, Virginia, 2015.
• Grand Prize, “steampunk French fusion,” Mask Competition Fundraiser, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, California, 2015.
• Best of Show, “Gown Guinevere” (renamed “Abstract of Recollections,” Wearable Art, Pacific International Quilt Festival XXIII, Santa Clara, California, 2014.
• Viewer’s Choice, “Gown Guinevere” (renamed “Abstract of Recollections,” Wearable Art, Pacific International Quilt Festival XXIII, Santa Clara, California, 2014.
• First Place, “Homage to tour Eiffel,” Art Bra Competition, Starry Night Hollow Quilt Shop, Solana Beach, California, 2013.
• Third Place, “Sydney 94.3,” Full Ensemble, Pacific International Quilt Festival XXIII, Santa Clara, California, 2013.
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FASHION EVENTS

• “Advanced Style Fashion Show,” Front Porch Gallery, Carlsbad, California, 2024.
• H&H Americas Handcraft Trade Show, "It's Made For You" fashion show, representing Clover Needlecraft, Inc., Chicago, 2024.
• Kimono Reimagined, Anna Walton/MartyO ensemble, Japanese Friendship Garden runway event, San Diego, 2022.
• Marty-O Fashion Runway Show, Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton, Virginia, Feb. 24-27, 2022.
• Uncommon Threads Runway Show, the Fine Line Creative Arts Center, Illinois, 2021.
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• Night of the Living Art Fashion Show, Oceanside, California 2020.
• Marty-O Fashion Runway Show; Moderator & Judge for SewBatik Fashion Show, Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Oaks, Pennsylvania, 2019.
• Exponential Medicine Conference, Singularity University, “Night Visions,” to illustrate “It’s All About Timing” lecture, Coronado, California, 2018.
• Luminous Fashion Runway Show, Visions Art Museum, San Diego, California, 2017.
• Wonderland Fashion Show, San Diego County Fair, Del Mar, California, 2016.
• Race Day Fashion Show Fundraiser, Mille Fleurs Restaurant, Rancho Santa Fe, California, 2016.
• SewingMachinesPlus.com Wearable Art Contest, San Marcos, California, 2015.
• A Walk on the Wild Side Fashion Show, American Sewing Guild National Conference, San Diego, 2015.
• Fusion Fundraiser Mask Competition, Mengei International Museum, San Diego, California, 2014.
• Art Bra Competition, Starry Night Hollow Quilt Shop, Solana Beach, California, 2013.
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CURATION

• "The Wise Crone," International 6000 Circle Project and The Calling (International Art Initiative), Geraz do Lima, Portugal, 2024.
• “Knot Aging: The Embellished Life of Rita Zurell,” Visions Art Museum, San Diego, California, 2018.
• “Tattered Splendor,” Special Exhibition, 2016 International Quilt Festival, George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas, 2016.

MEDIA/PUBLICATIONS

• “ARTwear,” Fiber Art Now magazine, Fall 2024.
• “Violet Protest: A Creative Call for National Unity,” Documentary, pbs.org, first screening, Phoenix Art Museum, 2024.
• “The Art of MartyO at Villa Montezuma”
• “A Collector’s Space”, FiberArtNow, Fall 2023
• The Quilt Show, “ Upcycling Vintage Textiles and Zipper Work with Marty Ornish,” Episode 3108, thequiltshow.com, 2022.
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• “Spotlight: MartyO, Fiber Artist,” Createwhimsy.com, 2022.
• “Marty Ornish: Neues Leben fûr alte Quilts,” Patchwork Professional, Germany, April 2020.
• She Votes Altered Book Project, Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art, Bonnie J. Smith, 2020.
• “Expo Patchwork 2020 in Mexico City,” pacificrimquilt.com/blog April 1, 2020.
• “Marty Ornish” art book (ISBN 978-0-578-56803-4), 2019.
• “1919,” OURstory Quilts: Human Rights Stories in Fabric, Susanne Miller Jones, Schiffer Publishing, Pennsylvania, 2019.
• “La Mesa Artist Creates Clothing By Turning Trash Into Treasures,” San Diego Union-Tribune, , November 26, 2019.
• “Stories In Cloth,” by Diana Cavagnaro, San Diego DOWNTOWN News, November 1, 2019.
• “Five Exhibitions of Quilt and Fabric Art,” by Karla Peterson, San Diego Union-Tribune, October 16, 2019.
• “Marty Ornish Upcycled Couture” by Beth Smith, FiberArtNow, Spring 2019.
• “Check Out Marty Ornish’s Artwork,” SDVoyager, November 26, 2018.
• “Age No Impediment to Fiber Artist’s Creativity,” San Diego Union, by Pam Kragen, July 15, 2018.
• “Cage a Crinoline,” Online Gallery, Emerging Artist Gallery, http://fiberartnow, March 2018.
• “European Patchwork Meeting,” Luna Lovequilt’s Blog, September 21, 2018.
• “Le quilt de récup' pour des robes sophistiquées,” and “La voiture dans la virtrine,” Dernieres Nouvelles D’Alsace (newspaper), September 18, 2018.
• “Skirtopolis,” Altered Couture, Summer 2018.
• “How Do Vintage Quilts Create ‘Tattered Splendor’?” thequiltshowblog.com, March 13, 2017.
• “Go Tell It at The Quilt Show! Interview with Marty Ornish,” Quiltalliance.org, 2017.
• “Tattered Splendor with Marty Ornish,” The Quilt Show, March 12, 2017.
• “A Brief History of Shibori,” Altered Couture, Autumn 2017 (cover photo and article).
• “50 Shades of Blue,” Belle Armoire, Summer, 2017.
• “Rubber Duckie You’re My Friend,” Altered Couture, Summer 2017.
• “Sew Crazy,” Belle Armoire, Winter, 2017.
• “When Is It OK to Cut Up an Old Quilt?” A Newsletter from Meg Cox, November, 2016.
• “The Alchemy of Rust,” Altered Couture, Summer 2016.
• “Still Crazy After All These Years,” Excellence in Fibers On-line Gallery, Fiber Arts Now, 2016.
• “Legendary Linen” and “Made with Love,” Altered Couture, Winter 2016.
• “Camo Goes Couture,” Altered Couture, Winter 2015.
• “Dancing Dragonfly,” Altered Couture, Summer 2015.
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITES

• California Fibers, 2023–present.
• Visions Museum of Textile Art, past board of directors member, volunteer, 2010-present.
• Volunteer, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California, 2009–present.
• Juried Artist, Studio Art Quilt Associates.
• American Sewing Guild, El Cajon Chapter.
• Surface Design Association, SoCal Regional member.
• SoCal Fibershed Project.
• Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art
• Textile Arts@ Los Angeles

 

marty.ornish@gmail.com
619.300.2251