Name Ann Anderson | ||
Ann stewart anderson looking back moving forward a retrospective
Ann Stewart Anderson is an artist from Louisville, Kentucky whose paintings have "focused on the rituals of being a woman." Anderson is known for her part in creating the collective work, the "Hot Flash Fan," a fabric art work about menopause funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. She was the executive director of the Kentucky Foundation for Women.
Contents
- Ann stewart anderson looking back moving forward a retrospective
- Early life and education
- Career
- Awards
- References
Early life and education
Anderson was born in Frankfort, Kentucky. She graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in History of Art in 1957, and earned a Master in Art (Painting) from The American University in 1961. She attended the Corcoran School of Art and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Career
Anderson worked at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in the late 1950s and taught art in the Montgomery County, Maryland schools before relocating to Chicago. From 1964 to 1975, she was Dean of Students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After returning to Kentucky in 1975, Anderson served as artist-in-residence at St. Francis High School in Louisville and later as executive director of the Kentucky Foundation for Women. In 1985, she collaborated on an NEA-funded project called Hot Flash Fan with the feminist artist Judy Chicago, a giant multi-media project addressing menopause that included work by over 50 artists. A 60-year retrospective exhibition of her work, "Looking Back/Moving Forward," was mounted at PYRO Art Gallery in Louisville in 2009.
Awards
2002: Individual Grant, The Kentucky Foundation for Women, 1998: Professional Development Grant, Kentucky Arts Commission, 1998: Sallie Bingham Award, Kentucky Foundation for Women, 1991: Southern Arts Federation, New Forms Regional Initiative Grant, 1988: Purchase Award, Kentucky Graphics, 1987: Individual Grant, The Kentucky Foundation for Women, 1986: Charles Logan Memorial Prize, Water Tower Art Association, Water Tower Annual, 1985: Robert Cooke Enlow Memorial Purchase Award, Evansville Museum of Art and Science, 1975: Mary Elvira Stevens Traveling Fellowship, Wellesley College,