Welcome to my website! My name is Betty Busby. I am an artist living in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
I am a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where I majored in ceramics. After RISD, I founded a ceramic tile manufacturing studio in Los Angeles,
ran it for 18 years, and sold it to move to New Mexico. I am happy to say that it is still in business today.
I have been working full-time making fiber art and teaching since I moved to New Mexico in 1994. The Fiber Gallery and Collage Gallery contain full (and some detail) images.
Teaching Schedule for 2017/18
The Dairy Art Center- August 27-29 and August 31-September2 https://tickets.thedairy.org/Online/BettyBusby in Boulder, Colorado
Pro Chem, October 2-6, 2017 http://www.prochemicalanddye.com/home.php - in Fall River, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Mass, Oct 14-16 (private)
Art Quilt Tahoe, November 4-9 http://artquilttahoe.com -at Lake Tahoe
Scottsdale, Az, February 16-19, 2018 (private)
Art Quilt Santa Fe, April 23-26 2018 http://artquiltsantafe.com - in Santa Fe
Hudson River Valley Art Workshops, August 13-17 2018 http://www.fiberartworkshops.com
For complete sale information, visit my Etsy shop:
http://www.bbusbyarts.etsy.com
Looking forward, I will have a two person show with Jane Sassaman at the Visions Musuem in San Diego, opening January 8, 2018
New! PBS has done a short feature on me for their arts program, Colores- it can be viewed here- Colores
The Abyss was Viewer's Choice in Taiwan
Mycology was awarded at Visions:Interpretations
sold from the show: private collection |
I was honored to have a solo exhibition at the Dairy Center for the arts in Boulder-
On and Off the Wall, July, 2016
Now appearing in the Rotunda Gallery, New Mexico State Capitol |
Lichen reveived Best in Show at the Albuquerque Fiber Arts Festival
It was another wonderful show at the Whistler House Museum
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Let There Be Light is one of 3 works headed to The Lincoln Center in Ft Collins, Colorado
for Art Quilt legacies
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Flow was the cover piece for Quilts 20/20 |
Take 110 yards of silk, add gallons of paint, three dozen talented artists, bolts of non wovens- and what do you get? an amazing week of classes at QSDS in Columbus Ohio
OverGrowth appeared in Fiber National,
and has been accepted to Interpretations:Conversations at the Visions Art Museum
October 21 in San Diego |
Ovum won first place at Art Quilts XVIII at the Chandler Center for the Arts, Arizona. |
Spike the Yucca Fish is going to the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder
for Judith Trager's "75" invitational.
I'm also on one of the panels at the NEXT symposium there- hope to see you!
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Tribute was Quilt National '15, and received an award
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Toxic was awarded at Art Quilt Elements at the Wayne Art Center
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Sand Dollar Spectrum won the Award for Creative Artistry in Fort Collins and was sold from the show. |
Secrets received an award at Q=A=Q 2013 in NY |
Fracture won Best of Show at Form, not Function in Indiana
and the Brush Gallery
accepted to Parch, 2015, and Turmoil, 1066
private collection
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Oxidation appeared at Q=A=Q at the Schweinfurth Gallery2014 and was sold from the show. |
Home on the Reef has taken first place at the Festival Gallery of Quilt Art in Houston, and has been sold.
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Retia, 60x45"
Amazing but true, I have been awarded Best in Show for the second year in a row at Form, Not Function at the Carnegie Center. I am very grateful!
also appeared in Fiber Currents invitational curated by Judith Plotner
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Multicellular is the cover art for the Linus Gallery Science Show
and was accepted to Layered Voices, premiering at IQSC in Nebraska
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Snowbound appeared at 2015 Fantastic Fibers at the Yeiser Art Center Paducah, KY
and Focus:Fiber '16 ar Kent State University
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Vengeance appeared at the 2014 Chandler Center for the Arts show in Arizona
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Tributary recieved a 2015 purchase award from the city of Chandler |
Genesis: Colony was awarded the Whistler Prize at the Whistler Museum, Lowell MA 2013
also appeared at Parallel Patterns, Sequim, Washington
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Corrosion (detail) was included in SAQA's Redirecting the Ordinary |
Ginger Jar was awarded at Form, Not Function at the Carnegie Center
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Anomaly will appear in Art Biologic at the Limner Gallery in New York
May-June 2017
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I am the featured artist in the spring 2014 SAQA Journal
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Diatom II premiered in SAQA's "Sense of Scale" in Houston and was
sold from the show.
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Voodoo Lily at Fantastic Fibers, has been sold
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Echinoderm recieved the Whistler Award at the Whistler House Museum in 2014
and has been sold |
 
I am one of the featured artists in the Natural World, available on Amazon.com
and Nucleus is on the cover of Sense of Adventure
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Opposites Attract was selected to be a part of the 2011 Quilt National Show.
It was a privilege to attend the opening weekend, and meet the other artists from around the world.
Kudos and many thanks to Kathleen Dawson and staff, who did a fantastic job.
Deidre Adams has a great post about it on her blog, she really went out of her way to get photos of people with their work- Deidre Adams |
We're very proud to announce the publication of our first regional New Mexico catalog. It features works from multiple exhbitions: Enchanted Threads, A Walk in the Wild and New Mexico:Unfolded. The limited printing run will be available at the SAQA conference in Santa Fe.
Julie Filatoff did a magnificent job with the design and layout of the catalog- see her work here-http://www.jirafstudio.com, or on her blog, http://www.jirafstudio.blogspot.com.
Thank you Julie for your countless hours of work on this project!! |
String Theory appeared at the Arvada Center for the Arts in Colorado in the" SAQA: Structure" exhibit shown above, and was purchased from the exhibition.. |
Conundrum received a purchase prize from the City of Chandler at Art Quilts XVII |
Christine Brown's interview with me is in American Quilter.
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Organelle was exhibited at Art Quilt: Elements at the Wayne Art Center. It was sold from the show. |
Flow received an award at New Fibers 2012 in Ypsilanti MI, and is included in the review of the show in Fiber Art Now magazine.
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Dichotomy is Best in Show at the Lincoln Center, 2014, and has been sold |
Interwoven was awarded at the 2015 Q=A+Q in New York.
It also appeared in my solo show in Ontario, Canada
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  Quilt Life has a feature on Cherry trees.
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Mourning Doves is on the post card for the show in Chandler Arizona and was in Utah
for the Brigham City Museum's International Quilt Invitational Exhibition: July, 2014
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Primordium's on the "Mad about Color" postcard. It won Best of Show and has been sold. |
5 pieces have been shipped to the Taiwan Art Quilt Exhibit for another wonderful show for Hsien-Chen!
Quilt Expo Beaujolais put on a small exhibit of my quilts this year. |
 
The Prescott College Art Gallery in Prescott AZ had an invitational fiber art exhibit titled "Common Threads". Cherry Trees sold from the show, and will also be featured in an article in
Quilting Life Magazine.
Images courtesy of PC Art Gallery at Sam Hill
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Ending/Beginning was shown in Sacred Threads 2011, and received an award at the Pennsylvania Quilt Expo. - more about this piece on my blog.
Push, in Quilt Visions in Oceanside, Ca, has been sold from the show to a private collector.
and Hill Country received the Texas Independance Award.
It was a wonderful Festival, visiting with old and new friends
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"La Luz" received an award in the "Good for You" special exhibit in the Houston Quilt show.
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The November 2009 issue of Machine Quilting Unlimited (below) features my work.
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Quilting Art in Stitches has a big article by me complete with videos! |
The Whistler House Museum in Lowell, Mass, included Storm and Fracture in this summer's "Art Quilts at the Whistler"
"Art Quilts Lowell: The Sea" at the Brush Gallery featured Triggerfish and Garibald- which were both sold from the show.
Coral Sea is a prizewinner at the World Quilt Show and has been sold.,
"The Art Quilt Experience" in Cazenovia, NY included Pod, which was sold from the show.
Layers of Memory opened at the World quilt Show in Manchester NH. Shattered was chosed to be a part of the exhibition. |
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"Sandia Mountain Spring" (above) was an award winner at IQA's "Wonders of the World" special exhibition and has been purchased by Karey Bresenhan. I am deeply honored!
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Christine Brown's interview with me is in the November issue of American Quilter.
Welcome to the Jungle was awarded Best Wall Quilt at the American Quilter's Society show in Knoxville.
It was chosen to represent the Natural World book in Houston and was sold from the show.
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The "Deep Spaces" show, curated by Larkin Van Horn, featured Medusa and Coral Spawn |
Pollen appearing at Octagon in Ames Iowa
It also received an award at Q=A=Q in New York and was sold from the show
Night Jungle on the cover!
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In the Garden awarded at the Carnegie |
