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Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

Threads of Tomorrow
Museu Textil
Panoramic virtual international exhibition with accompanying hardcover book
Includes 69 artists from 29 countries
Curated by Rodrigo Franzao
April 1st, 2024 – May 30th, 2024
Featured in the exhibition and the book are two new works by artist Linda Friedman Schmidt: Distortion, 2024 and The Vulnerable Border, 2023.
170 page book ISBN: 978-65-998488-2-7 is available here

Awakening Earth: Narratives of Spring
Physical gallery group exhibition with a printed catalog
Zhou B Art Center, Chicago
March 15 – May 10, 2024
Curated by Sergio Gomez
Opening Reception: Friday, March 15th, from 7 to 10 pm
1029 West 35th Street
Chicago, Illinois  60609

Included in this exhibition is artist Linda Friedman Schmidt’s experimental 2023 work Alive Again, discarded clothing, branch presumed dead, photo, 20 x 16 x 2 inches framed. This work is an ode to the endless cycle of life and the beauty of life’s perpetual renewal. Awakening Earth invites viewers on a journey through the myriad ways artists interpret the awakening of the earth as winter’s grasp loosens and spring’s first tendrils emerge.

Zhou B Art Center in Chicago was founded by internationally acclaimed collaborative Chinese-American artists Zhou Brothers in 2004. There is a new Zhou B Art Center in Kansas City, MO, and a third one under construction in Beijing, China.

The Color of Skin  Virtual Group Exhibition of Contemporary Art
Includes only one textile artist – Linda Friedman Schmidt
Presented by Inside Small Exhibits
February 26, 2024 through April 26, 2024
Artist Linda Friedman Schmidt’s small work Becoming White, 2018, discarded clothing 18 x 14 x 2 inches is featured.

Ongoing NFT Show

Every Woman Biennial NFT Show
Superchief Gallery NFT,  New York City
Used
by artist Linda Friedman Schmidt was minted in 2021 and is available as an NFT here
This work continues to exist as a physical original artwork available from the artist.

2023 Award
Artist Linda Friedman Schmidt is honored to be a recipient of the
New Jersey State Council on
the Arts 2023 Fellowship Finalist Award
This competitive cash award administered by Mid Atlantic Arts is granted solely on independent peer panel assessment of work samples. The anonymous process is focused on artistic quality. 

Artist Audio Recording
2023 Cornell University audio recording with video features Artist Linda Friedman Schmidt explaining the motivation behind her artwork during the “Threading the Needle” exhibition.

Interview
Interlocutor Magazine May 20, 2021  An in-depth interview with Artist Linda Friedman Schmidt by Millicent Borges Accardi begins with questions about her four artworks in the exhibition “UNRAVELED: Confronting the Fabric of Fiber Art” and continues with queries about the purpose of her art, her childhood, her process, medium, technique, and more.

Press and Film
Mr. X Stitch September 21, 2021 
Linda Friedman Schmidt Stitchgasm! An outstanding feature story about artist Linda Friedman Schmidt and her artwork appears in the UK International Textile Magazine “Mr X Stitch.” This powerful and sensitive artist profile by Editor Ailish Henderson includes multiple images, some of which you may have never seen before.

 

Artist Linda Friedman Schmidt is the subject of a short documentary titled “Under Her Skin: Linda Friedman Schmidt” which premiered on Hyperallergic.

Hyperallergic premieres a film about the artist’s life and work

A film about artist Linda Friedman Schmidt released on Hyperallergic!
Under Her Skin: Linda Friedman Schmidt
, a short documentary about artist Linda Friedman Schmidt was released on January 25, 2018 on Hyperallergic, the highly regarded arts online magazine. The 10 minute film was directed by Kelsey and Rémy Bennett and produced by The FRONT Media. Read the magazine article here.

Artist Linda Friedman Schmidt’s “Weeding” on German Magazine Cover
Linda Friedman Schmidt’s activist art was featured on the cover of the German Magazine kompass  “Weeding,” discarded clothing, 26 x 26 inches confronts not only Germany’s dark past, but also its present radical right wing anti-immigrant, anti-muslim, and anti-Roma views.

Activist Artist Linda Friedman Schmidt's “WEEDING” is featured on the cover of the March 2017 KOMPASS Magazine from Germany.

WEEDING by artist Linda Friedman Schmidt on the cover of March 2017 German Magazine KOMPASS.