Traditional African dress (handmade by Maphoka ), acrylic medium. 28″x 20″x 4″. Collection of the artist.
Exhibited in “Summer Show,” Signal 66, Washington, D.C., 2004. Exhibited in “Cartography 101,” Johnsonese Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2005.
Clothes, acrylic medium. 16″x 8″diameter. Collection of the Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University.
Exhibited at Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1984. Exhibited in “Recontextualizing the Found,” curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos and Bill Pangburn, Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, NYC, 2014.
Exhibited in “Metamorphosis: Highlights from the Permanent Collection,” curated by Maurita Poole and Laura Blereau, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA , 2022
This is a very early work further addressing the concept of record-keeping, journaling with materials, autobiography, Compression, distillation of experience, hinting at these by exposing interior layers.
The piece is composed of some of the clothes my mother made or purchased for me prior to my year as a student in Italy, that I wore there, and that returned with me. They retain something of my experience there. They are materially the same but different. Transformed -as I was- during that period of time.
Mixed appliqued fabrics, clothing, and batting. 42 1/2”x 61”. Collection of the artist.
Corduroy and paint on cardboard. 17″x19″. Collection of Phoebe Avery, Reston ,VA.
Exhibited at Hillyer Art and Artists, Washington, D.C., 2011.
Exhibited in “Ways of Thinking About Your Life,” curated by Hannah Barco, at Tephra@Signature Gallery, Reston, Va. 2024-25.
Hand sewn mixed fabrics. 31″x 40″. Collection of the Artist
Sweater. 51″x 50″. Collection of the artist.
This work was exhibited in”WTF Gurlz,” Artists and Makers. Rockville, MD 2019
Wool, mixed fabric backing, 98″x 54″. Collection of the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign. Exhibited in “GEOMETRIX: Line, Form, Subversion,” curated by Andrea Pollan, Curator’s Office, Washington, D.C., 2016. Exhibited in “Outliers: Kurt Godwin and Betsy Packard,” American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, 2014.
Betsy Packard Art Archive 