SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

• Beyond Basketry 2008, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, Ohio
• One Woman Show, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
• One Woman Show, Lassen Arts Council Galleries, California
• One Woman Show, LXS Gallery, Nevada State Legislature, Nevada Arts Council, curators
• One Woman Show, Hawkins House Museum of Art, Reno
• Teapot Show and S.O.F.A.* Chicago, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
  *Sculpture Objects & Functional Art
• 2005 Nevada Triennial, Nevada Museum of Art
• “Other Materials, Other Forms:Exploring Contemporary Basketry”, Brookfield Craft Center CT
• “Materials Hard & Soft”, Denton, TX Arts Council juried exhibition
• “From Exploration to Conservation:Picturing the Sierra Nevada”, Nevada Museum of Art
• “Intensity: Basketry in Depth”, national Convergence, Atlanta, Georgia
• “Basketweave Ohio”, National Juried Exhibition; work selected for world tour
• “Connecting Threads”San Mateo CA, Regional show; Blue Ribbon Award
• “California Paper Spirits”, National juried exhibition. First Place Award
• Regional Competition, Alan Short Gallery, Best of Show Award
• “Wild Women at the Museum”, and “Playing With Fire”, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
• “Convergence”, International Fiber Convention, Invited exhibiting Artist, San Jose CA
• “A Celebration of Women’s Creative Process”, invitational, Post St. Pavilion, San Francisco
• “Crossing Boundaries”, four person invitational, Iron Mission State Park, Cedar City, Utah
• National Slide Kit, Non Traditional Basketry, Shereen LaPlantz, Curator
• “Nevada Biennial”, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas
• “Movers and Shakers: Visions and Revisions of Nevada Women”, state tour & catalog
• "Interwoven: Visions of the Great Basin Basketmakers"; Nevada State Museum, Carson City
•  "Wild Women: The Works of their Hands"; Wilbur D. May Museum Gallery, Reno
•  "Open the Doors for Habitat", Rancho San Rafael Ranch House, Reno
• "Beyond Basketry 2008", international exhibition
  

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

• The White House Christmas Collection, Washington, D.C.
• State of Nevada Dept. of Cultural Affairs
• Nevada Historical Society
• Eureka Opera House
• Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center
• Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. - Memphis, Tenn., Tunica, Miss., and Las Vegas, Nevada
• Promus Corporation - Hampton Inns
• Washoe Health Systems
• Reno Heart Physicians
• Kumaye Tribe of Los Viejas Mission
• First Security Bank of Nevada

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

• 500 Baskets, Lark Books, pub.  A survey of contemporary baskets from around the world
• FiberArts Magazine, “Mary Lee Fulkerson, Great Basin Basketmaker”
• KNPB public television, “The Nevada Experience; Mary Lee Fulkerson, Basketmaker,”
• Craft in America: Celebrating the Work of the Hand, Summit Group pub. Representing NV
• Silver & Blue, University of Nevada, Reno magazine, “Storyteller Baskets”
• Nevada Magazine; “Mary Lee Fulkerson Weaves Storytelling into Art”
• Basketry Roundup, national publication. Exhibition Review “Woven Dreams and Promises”
• Papermaking for Basketry, Lark Books, pub. Featured Artist chapter
• Reno Channel 13-featured artist
  

DISTINCTIONS

• Board of Directors, National Basketry Organization
• Named one of top 20 northern Nevada Artists of the Century by Reno Newspapers, Inc.
• State Statue Selection Committee, Sarah Winnemucca/U.S. Capital project
• Juror and Keynote Speaker, Conference of Northern California Handweavers
• Project Director, “Great Basin Points of View”, a month of arts of Great Basin cultures.
• Founder & project director, A Common Thread, traveling state exhibition
• Author, “Weavers of Tradition and Beauty”, Univ. of Nevada Press, publisher, 1995
• Author, "A Basket of Blessings", Great Basin Basketmakers, publisher, 2005
• Founding member, Wild Women, a traveling gallery of professional women artists
• Founder, Great Basin Basketmakers and also Connections, a regional Artists’ Alliance
• Archives, National Museum of Women in the Arts

ARTICLES

• Reno News & Review, Hold everything, by Kris Vagner
• Santa Cruz Sentinel, ‘Contained Chaos’: New exhibit combines traditional and contemporary basketry, by Nancy Redwine

EDUCATION

• BA, University of Nevada; emphasis sculpture
• University of California, Berkeley CA, and Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts, Berkeley
• Studied with California Living Treasure Lillian Elliott, Nevada Folk artist Mountain Thunder

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