Mixed media. 8″x 7″x 2″. Collection of the artist.
.0041 Paris Dada 1987
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.0040 3 Sweaters 2018
Hand sewn and woven mixed fabrics. 23″x 17″x 3″. Collection of the artist.
Exhibited in “WTF Gurlz,” Artists and Makers, Rockville, MD, 2019.
.0039 The Sound of Music 2019
Wool and cotton. 26″x 19″. Collection of Sondra Arkin, Washington D.C.
Exhibited in MSAC juried exhibition, Baltimore, MD, 2019. Exhibited at “Collector’s Night”, a benefit for The Washington Project for the Arts, 2020.
.0036 Map 2004
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.
.0035 The Bhgavad Gita-As It Is 1978
Pulped pages of the book “The Bhagavad Gita- As It Is, given to me at an airport. 16″x 9 1/2″x 3 1/2”. Collection of the artist.
Exbitited in “Bookworks: DC,” at the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1980.
Exhibited in “Packard, Spaulding, Yamaguchi,” at the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1984.
.0033 Continental Shelf 1978
National Geographic magazines. 10″x7″x 2 1/4″. Collection of the artist.
Exhibited in “Paper: Changing Uses and Concepts,” Gallery 10, Washington, D.C., 1980.
Exhibited in “BOOKWORKS:D.C.,” Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.,1980
Exhibited in “Packard, Spaulding, Yamaguchi,” Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.,1980
.0032 Paintings and Drawings 1976-1978 1978
Paper pulp and ashes of drawings, prints, and paintings done while in residence at Tulane University. 8″x6″x5”. Collection of the Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University.
Exhibited at the Washington Project for the Arts, 1984.
.0031 Clothes 1979
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.
.0016 (pink and red) 2020
Mixed appliqued fabrics, clothing, and batting. 42 1/2”x 61”. Collection of the artist.
.0030 Nest 2014
Haircolor tubes, lint, and newspaper. 4″x 6 1/2″ diameter. Collection of the artist.
.0026 (half-sphere of tip envelopes) 2006
Tip envelopes. 4 1/2″ x 10″ diameter. Collection of the artist.
.0025 Abundance 2006
Tip envelopes, red paper napkins, $10 dollar bill. 11″x 7″x 3 3/4″.
Exhibited in “Pass/Sculpture,” at Pass Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2007
.0011 Old Bat/Angel 2018
Sweater. 51″x 50″. Collection of the artist.
This work was exhibited in”WTF Gurlz,” Artists and Makers. Rockville, MD 2019
.0001 Solemn Vow 2015
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.
.0005 Columns 2020
Knitted and crocheted elements on fabric. 42″ x 65″. Collection of the artist.
Betsy Packard Art Archive 