KIM FOX

Inspired by her urban surroundings and the natural Pennsylvania landscape, Fox creates contemporary quilts in non-traditional materials; her process of cutting apart tins and sourcing wood is as much a part of the art as the assemblage of the pieces. Growing up in rural Western Pennsylvania informed her aesthetic, subject matter, and choice of materials.

Fox has been making art and showing her work — which began with more traditional painting and collage when she lived in Florida — for more than 17 years. After moving back to Pennsylvania and reclaiming her roots, she started to explore regional arts and crafts with a more rural bent. For nearly a decade she’s been working with vintage tins and salvaged wood and patchworking the material in a way that feels like quilting.

Fox has taken part in exhibitions at museums and galleries such as The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Atrium Gallery, Providence, RI; and the A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, among others. In addition to making her art, Fox is an art teacher in regional schools in Western Pennsylvania and also is a designer and illustrator, all of which lend a hand to the intricate designs and techniques found in her quilts.

EXHIBITIONS

Stitching the Revolution: Quilts as Agent of Change, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, 2024

Artist as Quiltmaker XX, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH, 2024

Superposition, Community Arts Center of Cambria County, 2022

Stratigraphy, Moss Architects, 2019

Handwork, Society for Contemporary Craft/BNY Mellon Gallery, 2018-2019

Quilt + Resist: Art, Politics, Storytelling, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2018

Tin is the New Black, Stifle Arts Center, Wheeling, WV, 2018

Beyond the Bed Covers, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2017

Memory Quilt Collage, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Atrium Gallery, Providence, RI, 2017

Interiors With Impact, Pittsburgh Glass Center, 2017

John Riegert, Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 2016

New Order: Collage Now, Future Tenant Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 2016

Exposures, The Warhol, 2015

Red Horse Press Print Show, Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA, 2010

Prints Charming, Wildcard, Pittsburgh, PA 2010

COMMISSIONS

Installation, ARGO AI Production/Offices, Detroit, MI, 2020

Narrative Mural, East End Brewing Taproom, 2023

Narrative Mural, Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, 2022

Narrative Mural, Sapling Press, 2019

Narrative Mural, Earth restaurant, 2016

AWARDS AND GRANTS

Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator Grant, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, 2025

Monmade GreenLeap Cohort, 2024

Three Rivers Honors, Three Rivers Arts Festival, 2023

Recycling Award Jury Prize, Three Rivers Arts Festival, 2022

Bridgeway Capital Grant, 2018

Artist Opportunity Grant, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, 2017

Mark Stein Memorial Jury Prize, 2015

Emerging Artist Scholarship, Three Rivers Arts Festival, 2015

Finalist, Martha Stewart American Made Awards, October 2014

Communication Arts Illustration Annual, 2004

Print Magazine, Regional Design Annual, 2004

PRESS

Featured in Vintage Life: Encyclopedia of Inspiration, 2019

“Shows to See,” American Craft Council magazine, December 2018-January 2019

Pooja Galgali, “Art That Required Handiwork,” Alaska Beyond magazine, December 2018

Brooke Wyatt, “Gendered spaces, materials, forms ... and their transformation,” Constellations, 2018

Janine Vangool, “A Story of Uppercase Connections,” Uppercase, October 3, 2017

Joanne Klimovich Harrop, “Single focus inspires unusual exhibit at downtown gallery,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,  August 30, 2016

Alexandra Oliver, “John Riegert, John Riegert, and 252 artists of Pittsburgh,” Glassblock web magazine, July 27, 2016

Mundania Horvath, “New Order: Collage Now,” Steeltown Anthem blog, June 1, 2016

Sabrina Romano, “Handcrafted Holiday,” November 30, 2015

Jessica Sinichak, “Show some love with these tin hearts,” Pittsburgh Magazine, August 25, 2015

Kelly Beall, “PGH Maker Profile: Worker Bird,” Design Crush blog, July 29, 2015

Pittsburgh Today Live segment, KDKA-CBS, June 2015

Dave Zuchowski, “Winding route leads to art career for Mt. Lebanon resident,” PIttsburgh Post-Gazette, May 15, 2015

“A window to art,” Carnegie Magazine, Spring 2015

Liz Petoniak, “Take flight,” Whirl Magazine, January 2015

Jessica Bryce Young, “Bringing home the honey,” Orlando Weekly, March 2, 2006

LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

Instructor, Tin Patchwork Master Class, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, 2024

Instructor, various, The Frick Pittsburgh, 2022

Instructor, STEAM Carnival Tin Quilt Assemblage workshop, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, 2019

Instructor, Crafts & Drafts Workshop, Society for Contemporary Craft, 2016, 2017, 2018

Presenter, Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators, 2017

Presenter, Craft Business Speaker Series, Creator Square, Johnstown, PA, 2017

Instructor, Repurposed Art Workshop, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 2016

Lecture, Mt. Lebanon Public Library, 2015

RESIDENCIES

Sketchbook Residency, Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh, PA 2024

Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, May 2024

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, 2021-present

Pittsburgh Creative Corps, 2023-present

Three Rivers Arts Festival Advisory Committee member, 2019-present

Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators, 2019- present

Woman Made Gallery, member, Chicago, IL 2018-present

Photography (with very few exceptions) by Matt Dayak

Contact

131 Academy Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15228

theworkerbird@gmail.com

412-889-3507