Curriculum Vitae
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Woolgathering - Strathmore Mansion, Bethesda MD
2015 Cretazoa - Flying Solo, Arts at the Airport - Nashville International Airport
2014 The Wool Sculptures of Shana Kohnstamm - Green Hills Library, Nashville TN
2012 Surface Treat - Nashville’s Smallest Art Gallery, Nashville TN
2011 The Vast Within - Red Line Gallery, Knoxville TN
2009 Growing Season - Twist Art Gallery, Nashville TN
Growing Season - Janet Levine March Gallery, Nashville TN
2008 Faces & Figments - Nashville Jazz Workshop, Nashville TN
2007 Shana Kohnstamm - (fov) Studio, Nashville TN
2005 Fleshing it Out - Plowhaus Gallery, Nashville TN
2002 Selections from the Passion Series - Janet Levine March Gallery, Nashville TN
Selected Group Exhibitions *Moved online due to COVID-19
2023 HEATWORK 3.0 - VisArts, Rockville MD
2022 Hand Crafted - Black Rock Center for the Arts, Germantown MD
2021 Whimsy - with Heather Harvey - Gallery 115, Frederick MD
*Garden Party - Latela Curatorial, Washington DC
2020 States of Being - Sparkplug Collective - DC Arts Center, Washington DC
SHE: an expression of womanhood - Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons MD
*Instructor’s Exhibit - Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg TN
Totems - Beacon Gallery, Boston MA
2019 Boundless - Betty Mae Kramer Gallery, Silver Spring MD
2nd Tri-annual Maryland State Artist Registry Juried Exhibition - Maryland Art Place, Baltimore MD
Light Liminal - Sparkplug Collective. DC Arts Center, Washington DC
Creative Crafts Council 32nd Biennial Exhibition - Strathmore Mansion, Bethesda MD
2018 A Shaman Knew Ms. Storm - with Doris Wasserman - USN Tibbott Center Gallery, Nashville TN
Instructor’s Exhibit - Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg TN
2017 Tennessee Craft Midstate Chapter exhibit - Gordon Jewish Community Center, Nashville TN
2016 Best of Tennessee Craft 2016 - Reese Museum, ETSU, Johnson City TN
Instructor's Exhibit - Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg TN
2015 Size Matters - Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile AL
Touched: a soft sculpture exhibit - Ground Floor Gallery + Studios, Nashville TN - Curator
Bricolage - Ground Floor Gallery + Studios, Nashville TN
Number Inc. Presents Art of the South - Hyde Gallery at Memphis College of Art, Memphis TN
2014 Fine Contemporary Craft of the Southeastern US - Artspace, Raleigh NC
Courage Unmasked - OZ Nashville & Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN
Dubious Expedition - Leanna Lin’s Wonderland Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Figuratively Speaking - Rymer Gallery, Nashville TN
Nexus Sculpture Exhibit - Dogwood Arts Festival, UT Downtown Gallery, Knoxville TN
2013 Creative Connectivity - CVTACA, Renaissance Center, Dickson TN
YOUnite Tour - Viridian, Nashville TN
L’innamorato - Potter’s Wife Gallery, Fort Wayne IN
Artist Directory Showcase: Works in 3D - Metro Arts Commission, Nashville TN
Nexus Sculpture Exhibit - Dogwood Arts Festival, UT Downtown Gallery, Knoxville TN
From the Ground Up - Ground Floor Gallery, Nashville TN
2010 Nashville Artist Guild 60th Anniversary Show - Nashville TN
2009 Emergence Studio Series - Nashville Ballet, Nashville TN
2008 Ship of Fools Ship of Hope - Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne Australia
Active Ingredient - Untitled Artist Group - Limelight, Nashville TN
Connect 12 Artist Collective - Downtown Presbyterian Church, Nashville TN
2007 Connect12 Artist Collective - Dangenart Gallery, Nashville TN
2006 The Model Artist - Studio Sobro, Nashville TN | Curator
Bloom - Untitled Artist Group - Crystalwood Gallery, Nashville TN
Full Circle Art Group - Streets, Nashville TN
11th Annual Glow Show - Untitled Artist Group, Nashville TN
Gambit 4 - Twist Art Gallery, Nashville TN
Sugar & Spice - Twist Art Gallery, Nashville TN
2005 Newhaus - Plowhaus Artist Coop, Nashville TN
Nashville Women Artists - Leu Gallery, Belmont University, Nashville TN
Esteemed Colleagues - Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Nashville TN
Gambit: second base - Studio Sobro, Nashville TN
2004 Heart 2 Heart - Plowhaus Artist Coop, Nashville TN
The Art of Collaboration - Untitled Artist Group, Nashville TN | Curator
Naughty or Nice - Plowhaus Artist Coop, Nashville TN
2003 Elements - Untitled Artist Group, Essence Room, Nashville TN
Group of 4 - Striped Door Gallery, Nashville TN
Blue - Untitled Artist Group, Alan LeQuire Gallery, Nashville TN | Curator
Art Fairs & Benefits
2023 Collectors’ Night - Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC
Hickok Cole Art Night - Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC
2022 Collectors’ Night - Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC
Hickok Cole Art Night - Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC
15th Annual Craft Artist Exhibition - James Renwick Alliance, Chevy Chase MD
2020 *Collectors’ Night - Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC
*By The People - Monochrome Collective Virtual Art Fair, Washington DC
*Latela Curatorial COVID Art Fair - Washington, DC
2019 12th Annual Craft Artist Exhibition - James Renwick Alliance, Chevy Chase MD
2007 GimmeShelter benefit show - national traveling exhibition
2006 Bowling Green International Art Festival - Bowling Green KY
Professional Affiliations
• VisArts Ceramic Advisory Council
• Washington Sculptors Group
• James Renwick Alliance
• American Craft Council
Honors / Awards / Grants
2024 Maryland State Arts Commission - Grants for Artists Recipient
2020 Arteles Creative Center - SAE Artist Residency, Hameenkyro Finland
2019-2020 Sparkplug Collective - DC Arts Center Residency
2015 Arts & Business Council of Nashville - Periscope Artist Entrepreneur Training Program
2014 Award of Merit – Fine Contemporary Craft of the Southeastern US
2013 Merit Award – Nexus 2013 Sculpture Exhibit
2012 Creative Capital – Professional Development Program
2009 Untitled Artist Group - Special Opportunity Funding Grant
2003 Sensored Magazine - Starving Artist Award -1st place Painting
1988 Tennessee Art League - Scholarship Award
Publications
Washington Post: In the Galleries - Mark Jenkins, January 2021
Shana Kohnstamm: Where Craft Meets Fine Arts - Eric Celarier for Washington Sculptors Group, Fall 2020
Washington Post: In the Galleries - Mark Jenkins, March 2019
Worldwide Colours of Felt - Textiel-Art (Germany), 2016
Sharply Soft: "Touched" at Ground Floor Gallery in Nashville - Joe Nolan for Burnaway, November 2015
Fiber Artists Show Their Stuff in Soft Sculpture Exhibition - Erica Ciccarone for Nashville Arts Magazine, October 2015
In Their Own Words – Shana Kohnstamm for Fiber Art Now Magazine, Fall 2015
An Interview with Shana Kohnstamm – Annalisa Chelli for Dyeing House Gallery (Italy), May 2015
Interview: Shana Kohnstamm – Erica Ciccarone for NYCNash.com, April 2015
Shana Kohnstamm and Carrie Alter at Rymer - Joe Nolan for ArtsNash.com, May 2014
Needle Felting: From Factory to Gallery - Kate Barsotti for textileartist.org, December 2013
Felter Skelter: Shana Kohnstamm - Zoe Williams for mxstich.com
Artists From Near and Far Herald a New Season with ‘Nexus 2013'. Metropulse, 2013
April 2013 Growth and Renewal - Elena Rosenberg for Fiber Art Now magazine, Spring 2013
From the Ground Up - Curator’s Statement - Elizabeth Schlatter for Ground Floor Gallery. January 2013
Change to fibers makes Kohnstamm’s art tangible - MiChele Jones for The Tennessean, September 2012
Artsy Shark - Featured Artist, artsyshark.com, October 2012
Selected Teaching Experience
2016 - Unlocking the Wool: Sculptural Felting, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
2017 - Painting with Wool, Art & Soul, Nashville TN
2017 - 3D Needlefelting Basics, Art & Soul, Nashville TN
2018 - Unlocking the Wool: Sculptural Felting, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
2019-2020 - St. Albans Upper School, Washington DC
2020 - Sculptural Felting, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (canceled due to COVID-19)