Selected Events
2023
- Midwest Seasons, Center for Visual Arts – Wausau, WI
- Architectural Abstraction 2-Day Workshop – WI Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts Cedarburg, WI
- Wisconsin Visual Artists Perspectives 2023 – Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts – Fond du Lac, WI
- Pat Bishop Featured Artist – Community Foundation – Appleton, WI
- Culture and Agriculture – New Visions Gallery, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI
- Simple Landscape Class – Appleton Public Library – Appleton, WI
- Flying High: For the Love of Birds, traveling through August ‘23
- Down By the Sea by Fiber Artisans – Maritime Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI
- Down By the Sea by Fiber Artisans – Neville Museum, Green Bay, WI
- Francis Hardy Center for the Arts – 61st Wall-To-Wall Juried Exhibit, Ephraim, WI
- Beyond the Mirror – SAQA Global Traveling Exhibit, traveling through Dec 31, ‘23 (see link to interview below)
- Haven SAQA Global Exhibit, traveling through December 31, 2025
- sustainABILITY SAQA Global Exhibit, traveling through Dec 31, 2025
- Abstraction Distraction Lecture and Workshop, Evergreen Quilt Guild, Green Bay, WI
- Animalia, New England Quilt Museum – Lowell, MA
- Grids and Curves by Women Who Run With Scissors – Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts – Cedarburg, WI
Interview about “The Big Apple” from “Beyond the Mirror” SAQA Global exhibit toured from 2020 – 2023:
2022
- Flying High: For the Love of Birds, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA
- Stitches & Stems – Women Who Run With Scissors, Green Bay Botanical Garden, WI
- Beyond the Mirror – SAQA Global Traveling Exhibit
Australasian Quilt Convention, Brisbane, Australia
Sydney Craft & Quilt Fair, Sydney, Australia
Melbourne Craft & Quilt Fair, Melbourne, Australia
Canberra Craft & Quilt Fair, Canberra, Australia
Brisbane Craft & Quilt Fair, Brisbane, Australia - Nature’s Door – Women Who Run With Scissors, Kress Pavilion, Egg Harbor, WI
- Midwest Views SAQA IL/WI, WI Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts, Cedarburg, WI Co-Curator
- Culture and Agriculture, New Visions Gallery, Marshfield,WI
Wisconsin Visual Artists Regional, Richeson Gallery, Kimberly, WI - The Art of Fiber: Pat Filzen & Pat Bishop, Artspace Collective, 7 Merritt Avenue, Oshkosh, WI
- sustainABILITY SAQA Global Exhibit, traveling through Dec 31, 2025
New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, Mass
AQS QuiltWeek shows: Grand Rapids, MI, Des Moines, IA - Abstraction Distraction Workshop, Door County Textile Art Collective, Private Workshop Group
- Midwest Views SAQA IL/WI, New Visions Gallery, Marshfield WI Co-Curator
- Haven SAQA Global Exhibit, traveling through December 31, 2025
International Quilt Festival, George Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX
2021
- Beyond the Mirror – SAQA Global Traveling Exhibit, Oct 26, 2020 – Dec 31, 2023 Loveland Museum – CO
- Fiber Rich – Soul Nutritious Solo Exhibit, Aylward Gallery – University of Wisconsin Oshkosh,Menasha,WI
- Flying High: For the Love of Birds, Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, TX; International Quilt Market and Festival, Houston, TX
- Midwest Views SAQA IL/WI Regional, Mancuso Show events: Mid-Atlantic(virtual), Quiltfest Greenville (virtual), World Quilt New England (virtual), Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Pacific International Quilt Festival, Quilt and Sewing Fest of New Jersey Co-Curator
- Miller Art Museum 46th Juried Exhibition, Sturgeon Bay, WI
- Roots -Transplanted, Center for Visual Arts, Wausau, WI
2016-2020 highlights
- Solo Exhibit – Glas Green Coffeehouse, Shawano, WI
- Midwest Seasons Best of Show Invitational – Center for Visual Arts, Wausau, WI
- Dusk to Dawn – SAQA Global Exhibit, Original Sewing/Quilt Expo, Lakeland, FL, Taiwan Intl Quilt Expo, Quilt Festival Chicago, IL, Festival of Quilts, London, UK
- Flying High: For the Love of Birds, Texas Quilt Museum, LaGrange, TX
- Blues and Other Hues – SAQA, Plymouth Arts Center, Plymouth, WI Exhibit Co-Curator
- Materialized – Women Who Run With Scissors, Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI
- Museum of Natural Inspiration: Artists Explore the Richter Collection – Lawton Gallery, University of
Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI, Kress Pavilion, Egg Harbor, WI - Wisconsin Fiber Arts Biennial – Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts, Cedarburg, WI
- Wisconsin Visual Artists N.E. Regional exhibit – Richeson School of Art, Kimberly, WI
- Two Fish Gallery – Elkhart Lake, WI
- Culture and Agriculture – New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI
- 36th Annual New Legacies: Contemporary Art Quilts – Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO
- Deeply Rooted, SAQA – Great Plains Art Museum, Lincoln, NE, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA
- Wabi Sabi, Finding Beauty in the Imperfect, Plymouth Arts Center, Plymouth, WI Exhibit Curator
- Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, WI
- Midwest Seasons – Center for Visual Arts, 427 North Fourth Street, Wausau, WI
- Deeply Rooted, SAQA – Anderson Art Center, Kenosha, WI, International Quilt Fest, Chicago
- Balancing Act, SAQA – International Quilt Festival, Chicago, IL
- Two by Twenty – SAQA Global Exhibit – Quilt Expo Beaujolais at ParcExpo, 221, avenue de l’Europe
69400 Villefranche sur Saône, France, Quilt Festival Berlin, Germany; Road to California, Ontario, CA - Wabi Sabi, Fiber Artists Coalition – New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI Exhibit Curator
- Alive in the Arts – Plymouth Arts Center, Plymouth WI Merit Award
- 29th Annual Northern National Art Competition –Nicolet College, Rhinelander, WI Donor Award
- Roots,The Ties that Bind – Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Wausau, WI First Place
- USArts – Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO
2011-2015 highlights
- Featured Artist – Wild Apple Gallery, Menasha, WI
- Featured Artist – Riverwalk Gallery, Fond du Lac, WI
- Abstraction Juried Wisconsin Visual Artists, Frank Juarez Gallery, Sheboygan, WI
- Eye and the Needle – International Quilt Fest-Chicago, IL, Marian Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
- Secura 35th Annual Fine Arts Exhibition – Trout Museum, Appleton, WI Awarded Honorable Mention
- Alive in the Arts, Plymouth Art Center, 520 E. Mill Street, Plymouth, WI. Award of Merit
- Small Works Juried Exhibition – ArtSpace Collective Inc, Oshkosh, WI Second Place
- Fiber Artists Coalition – Brazil/Quilt Around the World, Gramado, Brazil
- Pat Bishop, Featured Artist – Acoca Coffee House, 500 W. College Avenue, Appleton, WI
- Balancing Act, SAQA – International Quilt Market and Festival, Houston, TX
- Two by Twenty, SAQA Global Exhibit – Open European Quilt Championships, MECC Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands
Richeson Landsape, Seascape & Architecture, Meritorious entry - Art Garage, “Recycling the Past to Repurpose the Future”, Green Bay, WI (3rd Place)
2006-2010 highlights
- Green Bay Botanical Gardens “Art Harvest”, Green Bay, WI 1st Place for Artistic Excellence
- “Pat Bishop – Fiber Artist, Solo Exhibit” Gallery at American National Bank, Appleton Art Center
- Appleton Art Center, “Secura Insurance Companies Fine Art Exhibition” Appleton, WI 1st Place
- Bergstrom-Mahler Museum “Seven County Artist Exhibition” Neenah, WI Honorable Mention
- International Quilt Festival “A World of Beauty”, Houston, TX 2nd Place
- International Quilt Festival “A World of Beauty”, Houston, TX Honorable Mention
- Appleton Art Center, “Secura Insurance Companies Fine Art Exhibition” Appleton, WI First Place
