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Kay Faye Fialkoff
kayfialkoff@yahoo.com      201-794-0285

Education
University of Miami, Bachelor of Education. 1965.
New School for Social Research, School of Visual Arts, Art Students League, Art Center of Northern New Jersey. Sculpture, design, drawing, painting, anatomy, and color theory. 1971-1994.

Selected Exhibitions
2018 Off the Spool: My Big Adventure with Thread (1979-2018) (Watercolors and Crewel Embroideries) in a juried exhibition; Pine Gallery, The Maurice M. Pine Public Library, Fair Lawn, NJ.
2007 Prayers for the Earth: Wetlands Suite, Nos. 1-4. (Crewel Embroideries) in juried exhibition: Belskie Fine Craft Exhibition. Belskie Museum of Art and Science, Closter, NJ.
2000 Prayers for the Earth: Wetlands Suite, Nos. 1-4. (Crewel Embroideries) The Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ.
1978 Works on Paper. University College Gallery, Becton Hall, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ.

Bibliography
Fialkoff, Kay Faye. Prayers for the Earth in Threads of Silk. Needle Arts, a publication of the Embroiderers' Guild of America. Vol. 27, No. 1, March 1996, p. 38.
Fialkoff, Kay Faye. Prayers for the Earth: Wetlands Suite. Needle Arts, a publication of the Embroiderers' Guild of America. Vol. 29, No. 3, September 1998, p. 30-33.
Fialkoff, Kay Faye. Embroidery as Prayer. Lilith, Vol. 24, No. 3, Fall 1999, p. 43.
Fialkoff, Kay Faye. Artist finds that needlework can be a form of prayer. The Record. June 15, 2000. Home and Family, Religion and Values section, p. HF-10.
Fialkoff, Kay Faye. Lilith's Flower. Inner Realm, August 2000, p. 23.
Fialkoff, Kay Faye. Full of Joy: A Meadow Inspires a Prayer for the Earth. Needle Arts, a publication of the Embroiderers' Guild of America. Vol. 33, No. 3, September 2002, p. 42-43.
Fialkoff, Kay Faye. Full of Joy: A Glorious Morning in the Meadow. Needle Arts, a publication of the Embroiderers' Guild of America. Vol. 36, No. 1, March 2005, p. 26-28.
Fialkoff, Kay Faye. Full of Joy: Late Summer in the Meadow. Needle Arts, a publication of the Embroiderers' Guild of America. Vol. 41, No. 1, March 2010, p. 20-24.
Fialkoff, Kay Faye. Full of Joy: Seasons of Beauty in the Meadow. Needle Arts, a publication of the Embroiderers' Guild of America. Vol. 43, No. 1, March 2012, p. 40-42.
Fialkoff, Kay Faye. Full of Life: The Forest Understory and Verdant Rhapsody. Needle Arts, a publication of the Embroiderers' Guild of America. Vol. 50, No. 1, March 2010, p. 28-31.
Fialkoff, Kay Faye. Full of Life:The Spiral Within and Morning Delight. Needle Arts, a publication of the Embroiderers' Guild of America. Vol. 53, No. 1, March 2022, p. 40-43.
Fialkoff, Kay Faye. Finding Katy: A Memoir. The Communication Connection. December, 2005.

Collections
Works held in private collections in the United States.

Texts
Fialkoff, Kay Faye. An Interview with Dorothy Gillespie. The Smithsonian Institution, Dorothy Gillespie Archives, 1978.

Teacher
1998, Guest Lecturer, William Paterson University.

Awards and Grants
1979-1980, National Endowment for the Humanities and the State of New Jersey Library. Three Women - In Touch with Life, a one-year art and poetry exhibition touring throughout the New Jersey public library system.



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