Annette Boncek creates a variety of two- and three-dimensional mixed media fiber artworks.  With a love of fabric and other art media along with a fascination with nature, she incorporates appliquéd quilted fabric, colorful threads, acrylic paint, and exotic beads.

        Annette’s exhibition of Making Visible at the Summit Artspace gallery featured her art studio quilts and themed fiber sculptures.  She won second place at the Fresh Art on Current Affairs, the Seventh Annual Juried Show presented by the Akron Area Arts Alliance. 

         She has offered her fiber jewelry at the Wearable Art Show of the Cleveland Museum of Art, at the Akron Art Museum gift shop, at the museum’s Holiday mART, and the Holiday Boutique of Stewart’s Caring Place.

       Her fiber work was presented at Conversations in Fiber exhibit of the Textile Art Alliance of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.

    She has also displayed her unique creations at the Annual Juried Fiber Arts Show of the Peninsula Art Academy, the Annual Juried Show of the Artists of Rubber City, the Red Dot Project show at the University Hospitals, and the Akron Area Arts Alliance Out of the Box exhibit.  Her artwork has been featured at Convivium 33 Gallery in Josaphat Arts Hall in the art quarter of Cleveland.       

        As a textile artist Annette has shown her artwork in numerous juried exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art, at the Butler Institute of American Art, in a touring exhibit for the Council of American Embroiderers in Arizona, and at the Eels Gallery at Blossom Music Center of the Cleveland Orchestra.  The Creative Arts Guild chose one of her works for its National Fiber Arts Competition in Georgia.

        Her work has been exhibited in the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, and the United States.

   A book publication

        One of Annette’s mixed media fiber vessels is included in the recently published 1000 Artisan Textiles.  As co-author Sandra Salamony explains, “We now live in a golden age for artists who create one-of-a-kind pieces, and the Internet affords home-based artisans the opportunity to exhibit and sell their wares on a global scale.  This ‘global scale’ is also made evident in that artists from six continents are represented inside.”

    A White House treasure

        A personal letter came to Annette from the White House thanking her for the unique angel Christmas ornament she made that is now in the permanent collection.  The First Lady expressed her appreciation on behalf of the thousands of visitors who saw the official White House tree in the Blue Room.  Annette was invited to create an ornament which celebrated the Year of American Craft.

    A book illustration

        The possibility of combining a love of drawing and working with fiber came together for Annette with the opportunity to illustrate a children’s book by Evangeline Nicholas.  When Leslie Wears a Crown tells the story of the author’s friend whose aunt made many of her clothes.  Reminiscent of working during her childhood preparing fabric for woven rugs, Annette created eleven quilts telling the story in fiber as one of twelve books written by Ms. Nicholas.

    In remembrance

        In remembrance of Angie Houtz, a Pentagon analyst who died on September 11, 2001, Annette created a quilt for the september11quilts.org project.  The quilt is a very personal one since members of Annette’s family knew and worked with her.  To convey Angie’s wonderful spirit, Annette used fabric transfers of a personal photo, a drawing of the Pentagon showing where the crash occurred, a patch of the Office of Naval Intelligence, and stars rising to the Heavens.  During the commemorations of this tragic event, the quilt was exhibited at the 10th International Quilt Week in Yokohama, Japan and was featured in an article in Patchwork Quilt Tsushin magazine.  It is now in the collection of the World Trade Center Memorial.