Background
  Forty plus years of sewing experience and course work.
Oregon State University, B.S. and Ed.M. degrees.
Berkeley Sewing Machine Company, sales and teaching, 3 years.
Past President, Quilt Faire Chair, Independence Hall Quilters.
*Designed and coordinated 1993 Opportunity Quilt.
Member, Network for Wearable Art, IQA, EBHQ, IHQ, Sierra Quilt Guild.
Judges' Scribe and Fairfield Fashion Show Assistance, Pacific International Quilt Festival.
Board Member, Northern California Quilt Council.
Designer of Wearable Art, Bed and Art Quilts since 1990.
Awards
  Empty Spools Seminars Jacket Challenge: '93, 1st Place & Judge's Choice, 2nd Place, Viewer's Choice, '94, 3rd Place, Judge's Choice.
Road to California: '93 and '95, South Seas Imports Special Award, Wearables.
New Pieces Quilt Shop: '94 "Hot Stuff" Challenge, 3rd Place, Viewer's Choice.
American Quilters Society Juried Fashion Competition, '95, '96, and '97, and '98 Quilt Competition.
In Stitches Manneque Juried Fashion Competition, '96.
Marin Quilt & Needlework Show, Juried Wearable Competition, '96, 2nd Place, '97, Honorable Mention, '98.
--Juried Quilt Competition: 3rd Place, '96, Judge's Choice, '98.
Pacific International Quilt Festival, Juried Wearable Art and Quilt Competitions.
New Quilts of Northern California Juried Quilt Competititons, 2 years.
Williamsburg Quilt Festival, Juried Wearable Art and Quilt Competitions, '97
International Quilt Association Festival, Juried Wearable Art and Quilts, '97.
Calaveras County Fair: Professional Art Division, '96; Professional Quilt Division: two 1st Place awards, one, 2nd Place award, and one Best of Show, '98.
Bernina Fashion Show Designer, 2003
Exhibits
  One-person show, May 1999, New Pieces Quilt Shop, Berkeley, CA: "RagTalk".
EBHQ Kaiser Center Exhibits, 3 years, Alameda County Building, 1 year.
Published
  Confetti Quilts by Mary Mashuta, Spring 2003, C&T Publishing, Concord, CA
Headed in Different Directions, American Quilt Society American Quilter magazine, Summer 2001
Cotton Candy Quilts by Mary Mashuta, C&T Publishing, Concord, CA - Quilt.
Dimensional Applique' by Elly Sienkiewicz, C&T Publishing, Concord, CA - Original design for basket block.
Fractured Landscape Quilts by Katie Pasquini Masopust, C&T Publishing, Concord, CA - Original quilt.
Speaker
  Art League of the East Bay; Empty Spools Seminar; Embellishment University, Wearable Art Connection, Los Angeles; Haute Couture Societe'; Network for Wearable Art; Sacramento City College Sewing, Fashion, and Home Decorating Fair; Theta Theta of Alpha Chi Omega; Numerous Quilt Guilds in California, Oregon and Washington.
Teacher
  New Pieces Quilt Shop, Berkeley, CA
Going to Pieces Quilt Shop, Pleasanton, CA
Cotton Patch Quilt Shop, Lafayette, CA
Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, CA
Numerous Quilt Guilds in California, Oregon, and Washington