Exhibitions
Recent Exhibitions (2021-2026)SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Branching Out: Mixed-media Art Inspired by Trees; Albany Library, CA
2021 Nature on Loan: 47 art quilts, Piedmont Center for the Arts; Piedmont, CA
SELECTED JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 56th Annual Textile Exhibition; Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA
2026 SuperImposed: A Collage Exhibition; Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
2026 CALeidoscope: Evolving Visions of California; Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2026 Matrix: A Printmaking Exhibition; Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA
2026 Sound in Visions: Music Is the Muse; ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2026 Americana Reimagined: Petaluma Arts Center; Petaluma, CA
2025 Hers, His, Theirs, Ours: Queer Expression; Pajaro Valley Arts Gallery, Watsonville, CA
2025 Press On! Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
2025 Impressions in Ink: Celebrating Printmaking in All Forms; Sebastopol Ctr for the Arts, CA
2024-25 Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined; Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, WA; SF Center for the Book, CA; Minnesota Center for Book Arts, MN
2024 Marin Museum of Contemporary Art Open & Auction, Novato, CA
2023-2024 De Young Open 2023; de Young Museum; San Francisco, CA
2023 Things with Wings; ACCI Gallery; Berkeley, CA
2023-26 SAQA: Color in Context: RED; International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas: November 2 - 5, 2023; AQC - Australasian Quilt Convention, Melbourne, Australia: April 11 - 14, 2024; Sydney Craft & Quilt Fair, Sydney, Australia: July 3 - 6, 2024; Melbourne Craft & Quilt Fair, Melbourne, Australia: July 24 - 27, 2024; Brisbane Craft & Quilt Fair, Brisbane, Australia: October 9 - 12, 2024; AQS QuiltWeek - withdrawn by SAQA (more info); Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival- Hampton, Virginia: February 27 – March 2, 2025; A Quilter’s Destination Quilt Shows: The Lancaster Quilt Show at Lebanon Valley, Pennsylvania: March 26- 29, 2025, The Paducah Quilt Show, Paducah, Kentucky: April 22 -26, 2025, The North East Ohio Quilt Show, Wooster, Ohio: July 17 – 19, 2025; Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza- Oaks, Pennsylvania: September 11 – 15, 2025; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota: January 24 - May 17, 2026
2023-27 SAQA & CSP: Printed and Stitched; Art Ark Gallery, San Jose, CA (touring with Exhibit Envoy); Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA; San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, CA; Maloof Foundation for Arts & Crafts, Alta Loma, CA
2023-26 SAQA: Primal Force: WIND; The National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY (touring) 2022-26 SAQA: Prism Play: Peninsula Museum of Art, San Bruno, CA; Texas Quilt Museum, TX; Mills StationArts and Cultural Center, CA; Carnegie Art Center, CA (touring)
2022-25 SAQA: SustainABILITY: New England Quilt Museum, Lowell MA; Windgate Museum of Art, Conway, AK; AQS QuiltWeek show, Grand Rapids, MI; DesMoines, IA
2022 SAQA: Textile Expressionism; Online Virtual Gallery 2021 SAQA: Convergence in Cloth: Shifting Tides; Wailoa Center, HI; Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, CA; Olive Hyde Art Gallery, CA (online); Visions Art Museum, CA; Pratt Museum, AK: Shifting Tides; International Gallery of Contemporary Art, AK; CityScape Community Art Space, Vancouver BC CANADA; Chehalem Cultural Center, OR: Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, WA : Shifting Tides; Works/San José; San José, CA
AWARDS
2025 $500 Award for “Excellence in Letterpress” from Pyramid Atlantic Art Center for “Where’s Owl” quilt
MEDIA, PUBLICATIONS
2025 “Breaking Day” and “Big Fires Start Small” art quilt images and quotes from Alisa Golden: “Bay Area Makers Process Climate Change Through Art” by Laura Klivans (KQED article, September 9, 2025 online)
2025 Art interview with Alisa Golden: & 5 quilt images; The Wave/Kelp Journal, April 14, 2025 (online)
2025 “Redacted” and “Would He Hide Me” quilts by Alisa Golden featured in BathHouse Journal #26 May-June, 2025 “Known/Uknown” (online)
2024 “At the Curb” image of art quilt by Alisa Golden featured in Apricity Press, issue 9 (May 2024)
2023“Some Birds Fly (we try not to interrupt them but we do)” image of art quilt by Alisa Golden featured in Streetcake Magazine (UK), issue 83 (March 19, 2023)
2023 “Piecing the Future” by Alisa Golden, article for The California Printmakers, journal for California Society of Printmakers “Changing Gears” issue (2023)
2021 “Reading Felt” by Alisa Golden, invited article for Felt Matters, journal for International Feltmakers Assoc.(2021)
ART QUILTS IN COLLECTIONS
University Art Museum, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI: Hand Gun / Private Collections: Z. Sage: Some Birds Fly (we try not to interrupt them but we do) / V. Simonetti: Study for a Finding / D. Trujillo: The Plague. The Fire.The Fall. / S. Good: A Chime of Wrens / D. Ayres: Folding Birds / B. Bowers: Crows & Cons / M. Goodwin: The Gift / T.S. Dansereau: Go Fish / A. Baker: Moon Song
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2017-present Member: Studio Art Quilt Associates
2017-present Member: California Society of Printmakers
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