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 since convinced her super-amazing spouse to give up their master bedroom for her studio. She graduated in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interior Design, magna cum laude, from Washington State University. Naomi was awarded the Yale R. Burge National Portfolio award from the American Society of Interior Designers. Naomi has recently started graduate school in order to pursue an M.F.A. in Studio Arts Fibers at the University of North Texas.

AWARDS

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

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

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

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

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.