Lucia LaVilla-Havelin has been creating fiber art since 1976, designing and stitching one-of-a-kind needlepoint, embroidered and beaded pieces exclusively since 1980.  She has had solo exhibitions in Texas and the Northeast, most recently, Natural Order, at the Art Center of Corpus Christi, November of 2007.  In January 2006, her showThe Three R’s: A Relearning, was featured at the Southwest School of Art & Craft in San Antonio.  LaVilla-Havelin’s work has been featured in many juried and invitational exhibitions, notably the National Juried Bead and Fiber Exhibition at the Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center in Frederick, Maryland, October 2005, Texas Trialogues at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio, February 2003, and reFormations: New Forms from Ancient Techniques which traveled in Virginia and Tennessee in 2000 (catalogue).  Other museum and art centers in which LaVilla-Havelin’s work has been featured include Women and Their Work, Austin,Texas, Maud Kearns Art Center in Eugene, Oregon, The Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art on Staten Island, New York, The Rice Gallery at the Albany Institute of History and Art in Albany, New York, the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York and Pyramid Art Center, also in Rochester, New York.

LaVilla-Havelin is represented by Galeria Ortiz Contemporary, and The Olana Group in San Antonio.  Other private galleries where her work has been exhibited are RC Gallery and Joan Grona Gallery in San Antonio, Obsidian Gallery in Tucson, Arizona, Las Manos Magicas in Houston, Texas, Living Traditions Gallery in Avon, Connecticut, Sylvia Ullman Gallery of Contemporary  Crafts in Cleveland, Ohio and Dawson Gallery in Rochester, New York.  Her work is included in over 40 private collections throughout the United States.