Exhibitions
2023 Member Exhibit El Paso Art Association Crossland Gallery El Paso TX
2019-2020 Local Color: Landscapes and Architecture Mesilla Valley Weavers Members Exhibition New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, Las Cruces, NM
2018 39th Annual Contemporary Crafts Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, AZ
2015 All Things Considered VIII Grand Hand Gallery, St. Paul, MN and Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA
2015 Arts International Crossland Gallery, El Paso, TX
2015 Fall Fusion El Paso Art Association Members Exhibition Crossland Gallery, El Paso, TX
2015 “Sojourn” Fiber Art Now, 4, no. 4 (Summer 2015), 56
2014 Arts International Crossland Gallery, El Paso, TX (catalogue) Catherine Kistenmacher Award for Flora Folklorico
2014 Renaissance of Fiber Mesilla Valley Weavers Member Exhibition Branigan Cultural Center, Las Cruces, NM
2014 Basketry as Art Tombaugh Gallery, Las Cruces, NM
2013 Interwoven Unsettled Gallery, Las Cruces, NM
2012 Threads Through Time Mesilla Valley Weavers Member Exhibition New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, Las Cruces, NM
Teaching
2023 “The Magic & Mystery of Coiled Basketry” and “Color Journaling as a Design Tool” Art Sparks sessions during Spinning & Weaving Week hosted by Handweavers Guild of America (HGA)
2023 Two-day online workshop Vibrant Vessels: Coiling Basics through Española Valley Fiber Arts Center (EVFAC)
2022 – 2023 Vibrant Vessels Creative Coiled Basketry individual mentoring on Zoom and Thinkific
2021 – 2023 Contemporary Tapestry Weaving: Painting with Threads independent class on Zoom and Thinkific
2019 – 2021 Tapestry Weaving: Painting with Threads OLLI at UTEP program in-person and Zoom
2019 “Reading and Writing Weaving Drafts” mini-workshop Mesilla Valley Weavers guild
2018 “The Magic & Mystery of Coiled Basketry” presentation to Mesilla Valley Weavers guild
2017 “Puebloan Weaving in the 19th Century” lecture and workshop Centennial Museum University of Texas at El Paso
2016 Loom weaving mini workshop during Spark Saturday El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
2015 “Images and Icons: the evolving relationship between art and culture” lecture series OLLI at UTEP
2015 Fiber Art Fridays weekly fiber art classes, Art Junction, El Paso, TX
2015 Painting with Threads Summer Art Camp El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso TX
2015 “Loom Weaving in the Past and the Present” Lecture and workshop El Paso Archaeology Museum, El Paso TX
Writing
2025 – present The Spiral & the Grid; writing about the relationship between creativity and spirituality on Substack
2016 – present Studio Journal about work as an artist and teacher on this website
Sep 2022 – Mar 2024 Southwest Weaving News [SWWN] a monthly newsletter with fiber news from the Greater Southwest & Beyond
2021 “Treasures in the Desert: The exploration of textiles in the American Southwest”, a review of Prehistoric Textiles of the Southwest by Kate Peck Kent, 1983. Contribution to Archaeological Textiles Study Group, Complex Weavers PDF available on request
2020 “What is tapestry for?”, Tapestry Topics: The Fine Art of Tapestry, American Tapestry Alliance, Summer 2020 issue
2019 “Tularosa Diamond Twill Fragment: a window to the past”, Contribution to Archaeological Textiles Study Group, Complex Weavers PDF available on request
2016 “The Interconnectedness of Objects and Imagination”, a review of Objects and Imagination: Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning, Fuglerud, Øivind and Leon Wainwright, eds. 2015, Anthropology News, February 2016 PDF available on request
2011 “Circulations of Knowledge and Culture: Teaching the Concepts of Diffusion and Adaptation as Students Experience Them”, Anthropology News, February 2011 PDF available on request
Bibliography
Cook, Mike “Lin Bentley Keeling: Weaving ‘as a form of visual music’” Las Cruces Bulletin 10 April 2020: 22-23
Artist Profile: “Vibrant Vessels: A Musical Muse Inspires Colorful Baskets” HAND/EYE online magazine 4 January 2018 http://handeyemagazine.com/content/vibrant-vessels
Edlund, Carolyn “Artist Profile: Lin Bentley Keeling” Arts Business Institute March 2017 http://www.artsbusinessinstitute.org/artists/artist-profile-lin-bentley/
Sloane, Adrienne “Lin Bentley Keeling: Stillness and Beauty” NBO Quarterly Review Spring 2017 National Basketry Organization
Zanetell, Myrna “Fiber artist appeals to sense of touch, sight” El Paso Scene July 2015: 31
Formal Education
2008 MA, Anthropology New Mexico State University Concentration: Cultural Anthropology Internship: Kent Hall Museum, NMSU Fieldwork: Women’s weaving/economic development collective, southern New Mexico Research interests: art and identity; role of art in contemporary society; basketry collections; Native arts particularly basketry and weaving
2002 BA, cum laude Anthropology, Art History minor, University of Texas at El Paso Certificate of Merit Distinguished Anthropology Student Research interests: art and cultural identity; Non-Western art
Higher Education Teaching experience
2015, 2017 EPCC Intro to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology; Cultural Geography
2009 Fall- Spring 2011 Spring EPCC Cultural Geography, Cultural Anthropology
2009 Feb certification to teach online using Blackboard and SoftChalk
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