"African Influence on the American Block-style Quilt," The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts: African Impact on the Material Culture of the Americas, 1996.
"Models in the Mind," University of Hawaii, African American Visions: A Celebration, 1994; Cerritos College, 1995; Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, 1996; Goldstein Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1997; Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, 1997; Oakland Museum, 2001.
"African Prototypes in American Patchwork," Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz," 1993; Berkeley Art Center, 1994.
"Continuities: African and African-American Textile Traditions," California Council for the Humanities Conference: A Sense of Belonging, A Sense of Place, 1990.
"Something of Your Own: The Art of Afro-traditional Quiltmaking," California College of Arts and Crafts, Art Communicating Culture lecture series, 1988.
“Toward a Conceptual Framework of African-American Patchwork Esthetics and Technology"," The University of California, Davis, 1988.
"Improvisation in African-American Quiltmaking," The San Jose Museum of Art, 1988; Fiberworks, 1986; East Bay Heritage Quilters, 1986.
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Selected Quilt Sharings
Textile Society of America 9th Biennial Symposium, Special Session. Oakland, CA 10/7/2004.
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Selected Reviews:
Kenneth Baker. "Quilts Reveal a Pattern of African Roots: Daring Textile Exhibition at Fort Mason." San Francisco Chronicle, 1/15/88.
Monni Adams. African Arts, August, 1988, Vol. 21, #4, p.88.
Alice Korach. Threads, August/September, 1988, #18, p.72.
Ann Barry. "Quilting has African Roots, A New Exhibition Suggests." The New York Times, 11/16/89, front page of "Home" section and p.C12.
Betty Freudenheim. "Quilts Ablaze in Colors and Patterns." The New York Times, 2/18/90, N.J. special section 12, p.19.
Christopher Knight, "Quiltmaking Show With the Feel of Jazz," The Los Angeles Times, 8/14/91
Glenna Matthews. The Independent Scholar, Vol. VIII, #4, Fall, 1994, p.10.
Kenneth Baker. "Diversity, Piece by Piece: Quilts Topple Barriers with Color, Energy Heart." San Francisco Chronicle, 7/4/97, pp.D1,D9.
David Bonetti. San Francisco Examiner Magazine, 8/3/97, p.8.
Mario Naves. "Quiltmaking Star of the Biennial Seduces with Vibrant N.Y. Debut." The New York Observer, 10/21/02, p. 19
Roberta Smith. "Rosie Lee Tompkins." The New York Times, 11/1/02, p. B32.
Andrea Scott. Gallery guide. The New Yorker, 11/4/02, p. 30.
Roberta Smith. Art Guide The New York Times, 11/29/02, p. B39.
Meghan Daily. "Rosie Lee Tompkins." Artforum, February, 2003, p. 141.
Eleanor Heartney. Art in America, July, 2003, p. 94.
Alison Bing. "Rosie Lee Tompkins at Anthony Meier Fine Arts." Artweek, November 2003, pp. 16-17.