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.  Her most recent exhibitions include Lives of a Cell, Watson Fine Arts Center, St. Philip’s College, March 2010, featured artist, with Richard Conn, Say Si, January 2009, begin/begin again, with Jayne Lawrence, at Galeria Ortiz Contemporary, March 2008, Natural Order, at the Art Center of Corpus Christi, November of 2007 and The Three R’s: A Relearning, at the Southwest School of Art & Craft in San Antonio, January 2006.  LaVilla-Havelin’s work has been featured in many juried and invitational exhibitions, notably Powerful & Fragile Earth, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, Virginia, March 2009,Environmental Visions, Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio, January 2009, the Texas Artists’ Exhibit, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas. August 2008, 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 museums 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 has exhibited at Galeria Ortiz, 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, and Dawson Gallery in Rochester, New York.  Images of her work have been printed in Surface Design Journal and American Craft.  Lucia’s work is included in over 40 private collections throughout the United States.