Special Awards and Honors

• 2019 Cultural Exchange Artist, Hokotu City, Japan
• 2017 Bronze Award, Smithsonian Craft Show
• 2017 Governor’s Awards in the Arts Folk Heritage Award, KY
• 2015 Kentucky Craft Luminary, Induction into KY Craft History Archives
• 2014 Founders' Award, American Craft Exposition, Evanston, IL
• 2013 Founders' Award, American Craft Exposition, Evanston, IL
• 2010 United States Artists Rasmuson Fellowship
• 2010 Best of Show, American Craft Exposition, Evanston, IL
• 2009 Best of Show, American Craft Exposition, Evanston, IL
• 2009 Bronze Award, Smithsonian Craft Show
• 2009 Kentucky Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
• 2008 Best of Show, American Craft Exposition, Evanston, IL
• 2006 The Adrianna Farrelli National Prize for Excellence in Fiber Art, Philadelphia, PA
• 2006 Award of Excellence, American Craft Council, Atlanta, GA
• 2005 Award of Excellence, American Craft Council, Atlanta, GA
• 2005 Southern Highland Craft Guild Educational Scholarship, Asheville, NC
• 2004 Best of Show Award, Traditional Craft-Contemporary Art,
• New Hampshire Institute of Art
• 2003 Kentucky Arts Council Professional Development Grant
• 1999 Kentucky Arts Council Cultural Exchange Artist to Ecuador
• 1998 Kentucky Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
• 1998 Brown-Foreman Fellowship, KY
• 1996 Kentucky Arts Council Professional Development Grant
• 1993 Artist Profile Feature, PBS/Kentucky Educational Television

Permanent Collections

• Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery
• Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
• Contemporary Craft Museum, Portland, OR
• Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, KY
• Johnson & Johnson Corporation

Selected Special Commissions

• 2019 Loewe, Salone del Mobile, Milan
• 2019 Irthi Contemporary Craft Council, Design of leather handbags for exhibition
• at London Design Fair
• 2000 Kentucky Craft Marketing, Millenium Award presented to Governor Patton
• 1993 Owensboro Museum of Art, Collections

Selected Juried Shows

• Smithsonian Craft Show, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006
• Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, 2012, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
• American Craft Exposition, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008

Instructor

• 2019 Irthi Contemporary Craft Council, Sharjah, UAE
• 2019 National Basketry Organization Convention, Bowling Green, KY
• 2018 Los Angeles Basketry Guild, Los Angeles, CA
• 2018 The Basket Maker’s Catalog, Scottsville, KY
• 2017 Columbia Basin Basketry Guild, Portland, OR
• 2016 North Country Studio Workshops, Bennington College, VT
• 2015 The Willow Gathering, Decorah, IA
• 2013 National Basketry Organization Convention, Gatlinburg, TN
• 2011 Shakerag Workshops, Sewanee, TN
• 2007 National Basketry Organization Convention, Gatlinburg, TN
• 2006 American Craft Council SE Regional Conference, Trends and Traditions,
• Louisville, KY
• 1996 Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation, Louisville, KY
• 1988-1995 Cedar Creek School, Monterey, KY
• 1985 Kentucky Guild Basket, New Haven, KY

Recent Exhibitions

• 2020
• Life With Objects: the Everyday of Design Online International Invitational
• Basketry Invitational Casavells Side Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
• Heritage Crafts, Contemporary Designs Irthi Craft Council, Hamriya Studios,
• Sharjah, UAE
• Kentucky Craft Luminaries Central Library Gallery, Lexington, KY
• Celebrate Women Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, KY
• 2019
• Loewe Salon Del Mobile Milan, Italy
• London Design Fair Irthi Craft Council, London, UK
• Contemporary Greenwood Center for Furniture Craftsmenship, Messler Gallery,
• Rockport, ME
• Meet the Artist Berea Arts Council, Madison Co. Public Library, Berea, KY
• 2018
• Kentucky Craft Luminaries Frazier Kentucky History Museum, Louisville, KY
• 2017
• Rooted, Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in America Four-year traveling exhibit
• Museum of Art and Archaeology, Columbia, MO
• 108 Contemporary, Tulsa, OK
• Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS
• Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
• Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts, Houston, TX
• South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, SD
• Briggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE
• Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
• The Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts at Florida Institute of Technology,
•     Melbourne, FL
• From These Woods Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
• Outside Inspiration Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
• 2016
• New Variations in Basketry Snyderman – Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
• Maximum Craft Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA
• Jennifer Zurick Small Works Gallery, Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC
• Standing the Test of Time: Kentucky’s White Oak Basket Tradition Kentucky Museum,
• Bowling Green
• 2015
• Kentucky Craft Luminaries: Sharing the Stories Artsplace Gallery, Lexington, KY
• All Things Considered VIII The Grand Hand, St. Paul, MN
• Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA

Publications

• Rooted Revived Reinvented - Basketry in America
• Kristin Schwain and Josephine Stealey
• Schiffer Publishing 2017: 129
• Lewett, Leanne, 2015 “Jennifer Zurick - Figuring It Out” Artist Profile
• National Basketry Organization Quarterly Review (winter): 20-23
• A MEASURE OF THE EARTH -- The Cole-Ware Collection of American Baskets;
• Nicholas R. Bell, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery;
• University of North Carolina Press; 2013
• Heller Zurick, Jennifer "Jennifer Heller Zurick - Image of Long Past"
• NBO News, National Basketry Organization,
• Volume 7, Issue 2 (summer): 1, 11-12
• Palmer, Tom, ed. 2005 American Art Collector, Volume I, Book 4
• Berkeley, CA: Alcove Books: 141
• American Craft, June/July 2005, American Craft Council, NY, NY: 80
• Johannsen, Kristin, 2003 "From the Roots: Artists Profile"
• Arts Across Kentucky (winter): 62-63
• Heller, Jennifer, 2003 "Willow Bark Basketry" National Basketry Org. Newsletter,
• Volume 4, Issue 1 (fall): 9-10
• Shaw, Robert, 1993. America's Traditional Crafts, Shelburne, VT:
• Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc.: 118
• George, Phyllis, 1989. Kentucky Crafts: Handmade and Heartfelt
• NY: Crown Publishers, Inc.: 144-147