Salli McQuaid (1988), wearing Kuk Sool Won
black belt demonstration general's uniform.

• Author and Quilt Artist, Naked: Quilted Confessions of a Renegade Artist, (blank verse illustrated by quilts),  Tranquil Press, Charleston, SC, USA: 24+pp., 2011

• May, 2007 - present: accepted at Professional Artist Member level, Studio Art Quilt Associates, an international association.

• Member, American Quilter's Society, Paducah, KY, 2011.

• Member, Walla Walla Valley Quilt Guild, 2010-present.

• Member, Fort Walla Walla Museum 2010-present.

• Member, ArtistTrust, Washington State, 2010- present.

• Bad: Studio Art Quilt Associates Creative Force traveling exhibition, 2010-11. Seventeen venues. Color catalog. Bad given significant air time, Houston Channel 2 TV News, 2010.

• Fat Tuesday: Focus on Fibre 2010 Biennial “Green”, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (traveling exhibition). Winner: second place. Cash award.

• Plum Dragon: archived, International Quilt Study Center,  University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2009.

• Starry Flight:  The International Quilt Market in Houston Buyer's Guide, "Special Exhibitions," p.33 (Fall, 2009).

Nine-eleven and United States Naval Academy Reunion published in book: Thanking our Troops: God Bless
America Touring Quilts, Judy Howard, ed., 2009.
 
USNA Reunion, 55"w x 35"h, 2006..
 

• October 11-12, 2009, demonstrator, Kreinik Thread Mfg. Co., International Quilt Market, Houston.

• July 25, 2009, Lecture: Meet the Experts, Long Beach International Quilt Festival,CA.

• July 24, 2009: open reading, selected poems from the Naked: Quilted Confessions of a Renegade Artist series, Cat Man Bleu, Long Beach, CA.

• July 2009: third place award, wearable art, the Woodlands Area Quilt Guild exhibition, The Woodlands, TX.

• 2009: member, patron level, Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX.

• August, 2008: Pink Strength in juried Focus on Fibre Art Association Sixth Biennial, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. and Stony Brook, Ontario, Canada. Cash appreciation award.

• Member, San Jose State University Alumni Association, 2008-present.

• 2000-2008, charter member, Houston Museum of Art.

• 2007- present, member, International Quilt Association.

• Member, The Woodlands Area Quilt Guild, 2008-2010.

• April, 2007: Featured Artist, www.artistsites.org . Winter Wave.

• 2007: Volunteer, American Heart Association.

• 2007: General Member, Studio Art Quilt Associates.

• 2007: Expert quilt artist, Sew Pfine Divas class, Conroe, TX.

• 2006: Jazzercise performance; Houston Rockets half-time, McQuaid featured on big screen. $21,000 raised for breast cancer. Group photo in Conroe, TX, The Courier; and The Woodlands, TX, The Villager. Filmed.
• 2006: Volunteer, American Heart Association.
• 1999-Present, Charter Member, Houston Museum of Modern Art.
• 2002: in Houston Chronicle Lone Star ZNA Koi Club article.
• 2000-2007, charter member, Smithsonian Museum of art.
• 2001: featured in Garden of the Fish, with color photographs, The Villager, The Woodlands, TX. 
• 2001: First Place, Halloween costume contest, Jazzercise, The Woodlands, TX.
• 1997-98: Who's Who in American Journalism.
• 1993-1997: Who's Who in California/America.
• 1992-1997: Editor-Publisher, Artist Writer: a concise journal of contemporary art, Pleasanton, CA.
• 1987-1989: Instructor, California State University of Hayward.
• 1995-1998: Instructor, Los Positas Junior College, Livermore, CA.
• 1983-86: Instructor, San Jose State University, 1983-1986.
• 1985: Instructor, San Francisco State University.
• 1990-1993: Who's Who in the West.
• 1988: Writer, Lecturer and Panelist, “Twelve Artists” exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA.
• 1988: Named Foremost Art Critic, San Jose Art League, San Jose, CA.
• 1987: author, High Performance magazine.
• 1987: black belt won, Kuk Sool Won, San Francisco, CA.
• 1987: Third place, Black Belt Forms, Kuk Sool Won International Martial Arts Tournament, Seoul, Korea.
• 1984-86: Board of Directors, SJSU Art Alumni Association, San Jose, CA.

  Detail from Rainbow Renaissance wearable art, 2008.

• 1983-86, Art and Dance Critic, The Metro, Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA.
• 1984-85, Editor, Art & Antique magazine, San Jose, CA.
• 1983: Runner-up, Works Gallery Costume exhibition, San Jose, CA.
• 1983-1985: Editor, SJSU Art Alumni News.
• 1982-83, Art Writer, Lane County Living glossy magazine, Eugene, OR.
• 1983: Public Relations Committee, Lane Council for the Arts, Eugene, OR.1981.
• Cash awards, Lane Country Fair, Eugene, OR, drawing (1st) painting (2nd and 3rd) and fabric crafts (2nd). In Eugene Register-Guard.
• 1978, featured in special performance, Circus Vargas elephant race, third place trophy,  Channel 13 television, Eugene, OR.
• 1978-79: Reporter, Valley News Tribune, Eugene, OR.
• 1977: Honorable mention, photography, Hayward Area Festival of the Arts, Hayward, CA, 1977. Juried, catalog.
• 1976-77, Art Critic, Palo Alto Times, Palo Alto, CA.
• 1975-77, performance artist, Lilith, San Francisco Bay Area.
• 1976: Guest Artist, It's a Woman's World, Channel 11 TV, San Jose.
• 1974-76: Writer, Editorial Asst. Assistant Editor, Artweek, Oakland, CA. 

McQuaid's artwork resides in numerous
American private and public; and
European and Middle Eastern
 private collections.