Naomi has been sewing since she was quite small. She remembers sitting for hours under the dining room table with her sisters, surrounded by fabric scraps, making clothes for her doll. These works had a limited life span, as she would immediately rip them apart as soon as she created them in order to make something new! Naomi began quilting in 1996 and has never looked back. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interior Design, magna cum laude, from Washington State University. Naomi obtained her Masters of Fine Arts in Studio Arts, Fibers from the University of North Texas. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Fiber Media at Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho.

AWARDS

Most Innovative Use of the Medium, Quilt National ‘11, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, Ohio, 2011.

Future of Quilting Award, Quilts: A World of Beauty, Houston International Quilt Festival, 2010.

Outstanding Graduate Student in Studio Art, University of North Texas, 2010.

2nd Place, VAST National Exhibition, Visual Arts Society of Texas, Denton, Texas, 2010.

Juror’s Award, Rivers on the Edge, Waterways 2010, Denton, Texas, 2010.

Olfa Young Designer’s Okada Award, AQS Quilt Show and Contest, American Quilter’s Society, Paducah, Kentucky, 2008.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Tangential, Davis Gallery, Pocatello, Idaho, 2012.

Interface, Cora Stafford Gallery, Denton, Texas, 2012.

Naomi S. Adams, Round Rock Library,  Round Rock, Texas, 2009.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Idaho Booker’s Dozen, Traveling exhibition, 2012-2013.

Lone Stars III, Texas Quilt Museum, La Grange, Texas, 2012.

Friends of the UNT Libraries Artist’s Books Competition and Biennial Exhibition, Denton, Texas, 2012.

Watermarks 2012 Member’s Show, Friends of Dard Hunter, Morgan Conservatory, 2012.

Quilt National ‘11, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, Ohio, 2011.

Bookopolis and Capital Works Bookopolis Show, Asheville Bookworks, Asheville, North Carolina, 2011.

Quilts: A World of Beauty, Houston International Quilt Festival, Quilts, Inc., 2010.

AQS Quilt Show and Contest,  American Quilter’s Society, Paducah, Kentucky, 2010.

VAST National Exhibition, Visual Arts Society of Texas, Denton, Texas, 2010.

Rivers on the Edge, Waterways 2010, Denton, Texas, 2010.

Materials Hard and Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, Texas, 2009.

AQS Quilt Show and Contest, American Quilter’s Society, Paducah, Kentucky, 2009.

2009 People’s Gallery Exhibition, Austin City Hall, Austin, Texas, 2009-2010.

It’s not a quilt…or is it?, Copper Shade Tree Gallery, RoundTop, Texas, 2009.

AQS Quilt Expo and Contest, American Quilter’s Society, Des Moines, Iowa, 2008.

Quilts: A World of Beauty, Houston International Quilt Festival, Quilts, Inc., 2008.

Pearls of Wisdom, Austin Area Quilt Guild, Austin, Texas, 2008.

The Sky’s the Limit, Houston International Quilt Festival, Quilts, Inc., Traveling exhibition, 2008-2011.

AQS Quilt Show and Contest, American Quilter’s Society, Paducah, Kentucky, 2008.

Celebrate Spring!, Chicago International Quilt Festival, Quilts, Inc., 2008.

Eye of the Needle, Quattro Gallery, Austin, Texas, 2007-2008.

Tactile Architecture 2007, Houston International Quilt Festival, Quilts, Inc., Traveling exhibition, 2007-2008.

Journal Quilts 2007: A Page from my Book, Houston International Quilt Festival, Quilts, Inc., Traveling exhibition, 2007-2008.

Alzheimer’s Forgetting Piece by Piece, Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative, Traveling exhibition, 2006-2010.

In a Quilter’s Garden, Austin Area Quilt Guild, Austin, Texas, 2006.

Post- Postcard show, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, 2006.

Put a Roof Over Our Head, Alliance for American Quilts, Traveling exhibition, 2006-2007.

Wish You Were Here, Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, Arizona, 2006.

PUBLICATIONS

Passion, Art, Community: Denton, Texas in Word and Image, 2012.

Lone Stars III: Texas Quilts Today 1986-2011, University of Texas Press, 2011.

Quilt National: The Best of Contemporary Quilts, Lark Books, 2011.

Surface Design Journal, 2011.

American Quilter magazine, July 2011.

Surface Design Journal, 2010.

Quilts Japan magazine, 2008.

Quilter’s Newsletter magazine, November 2008.

American Quilter magazine, July 2008.

Alzheimer’s: Forgetting Piece by Piece, Ami Simms, Mallery Press, 2006.