Selected Exhibitions
2018
Teeny Tiny Trifecta, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA (juror: Kristen Chiacchia, SSG Executive Director/Chief Curator)
Invitational Print Show, Riverviews Artspace, Lunchburg, VA (invitational)
Tracings from Nature, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
Books as Art & Art for Books, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
High Country Herbarium: Preserving Plants and Plant Communities in the Southern Appalachians, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Applachian State University, Boone, NC (invitational)
2017
Indigo: The Seventh Color, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY (invitational)
In Death, Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts, Cedarburg, WI (invitational)
Arrowmont Instructor Exhibition, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts,
Gatlinburg, TN (invitational)
P's & Q's, Virginia Quilt Museum, Harrisonburg, VA (regional invitational)
Green Mind, Chroma Projects, Charlottesville, VA (invitational)
New Member’s Show, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA (regional invitational)
2016
The Properties of Imagination, Wayne Theatre, Waynesboro, VA (regional invitational)
Fiber Transformed, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA (regional invitational)
2015
Second Nature, Virginia Arts of the Book Center, Charlottesville, VA (solo)
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
(jurors: Mary Anne Jordan, Linda Colsh, and Cynthia Corbin, artists)
Sacred Threads, Floris United Methodist Church, Herndon, VA (juror: Lisa Ellis, artist and exhibit chair)
Hello Hedi, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR (juror: Laura Russell, artist and gallery owner)
Pulp, LibertyTown Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA (juror: Kerry McAleer-Keeler,
Program Head, Art and the Book Graduate Program, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design,
George Washington University, Washington, DC)
2014
Small Works, Warm Spring Gallery, Charlottesville, VA (invitational)
Tarnish, VisArts Gallery, Rockville, MD (juror: Deidre Adams, artist)
Fiber: Exploring Today and Remembering Yesterday, Verizon Gallery, Northern Virginia Community
College, Annandale, VA (juror: Trudi Van Dyke, independent curator and fine arts consultant)
2013
Nature in Craft, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA (invitational)
Rooted, Lark & Key Gallery, Charlotte, NC (invitational)
Gather, Warm Springs Gallery, Warm Springs, VA (invitational)
2012
World of Thread Festival: De Rerum Natura, Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, Oakville, ON, Canada
(jurors: Dawne Rudman, festival chair and curator; Gareth Bate, artist/curator)
Disintegration and Repair, Warm Springs Gallery, Charlottesville, VA (international invitational)
2010
Gone to Seed, Warm Springs Gallery, Charlottesville, VA (regional invitational)
Starting Point (Fiber Transformed Group), Art Works, Richmond, VA
Wish You Were Here (Fiber Transformed Group), Radford University, Radford, VA
Collaborative Projects
2016
Handmade Harvest (members project), Virginia Center for the Book,
Virginia Humanities, Charlottesville VA
2015
Solace (installation by artist India Flint), The Observatory, Andamooka, South Australia
2014
Notions (members project), Virginia Center for the Book, Virginia Humanities, Charlottesville VA
Selected Bibliography
2017
IAPMA Bulletin. No.56, April 2017.
“In the spotlight: Fiber transformed” Quilting Arts. No.86, April/May 2017.
2016
“Like-Minded.”American Craft. June/July, 2016.
Cober-Lake, Justin. “Inleaf Studio and the resilience of nature.” Central Virginia Magazine, April, 2016.
2015
Wellesley-Smith, Claire. Slow Stitch, Mindful and contemplative textile art. London: Batsford, 2015.
Fox, Alice. Natural Processes in Textile Art. London: Batsford, 2015.
Helleberg, Lotta. “Capturing a Plant and a Place” Art Quilting Studio, Summer 2015.
2014
Rivers, Charlotte. Little Book of Book Making. New York/London: PotterCraft/Random House, 2014.
Powers, Heather K. "Inside the Artist Studio: Lotta Helleberg." HK Power Studio, July 10, 2014.
2012
Wisbrun, Laurie. Mastering the Art of Fabric Printing and Design. New York: Chronicle Books, 2012.
Rudman, Dawne, and Gareth Bate. "Interview: Lotta Helleberg." World of Threads Festival (online publication). Toronto, Canada, 2012.
Awards and Grants
2015 Third Place Award (for What Lies Beyond artist book), Pulp, LibertyTown ArtsWorkshop, Fredericksburg, VA
Commissions and Collections
University of Virginia, Curry School of Education, Sheila C. Johnson Center for HumanServices, Charlottesville, VA (commission)
Works in private collections in Australia, Canada, England, Sweden, and USA, including Arizona, California, Georgia, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Virginia.
Membership
McGuffey Art Center, associate member, 2016 –
Virginia Center for the Book, professional member, 2015 –
Education and Selected Workshops
BA (journalism), University of Gothenburg, Sweden
2017
Human Marks, Dorothy Caldwell, Shakerag Workshop, Sewanee, TN
2015
Advanced Papermaking, Virginia Arts of the Book Center, Charlottesville, VA
2014
Fiber Paper Textile Book Spirit, Aimee Lee and Velma Bolyard, Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH (workshop)
The Stitchery Book, Jody Alexander, Shakerag Workshop, Sewanee, TN
2012
Botanical Alchemy, India Flint, Cleveland, OH (workshop)
Dyeing with Plants: Seven Experiments, Michel Garcia, Shakerag Workshop, Sewanee, TN
2011
Local Color: Art, Life, and Local Plants as Dyes, Rowland Ricketts, Shakerag Workshop, Sewanee, TN
2010
A Walk in the Woods, India Flint, Shakerag Workshop, Sewanee, TN
