Biography
Anne is teaching artist for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and has taught drawing at George Mason University. Her art practice includes processes of drawing, sculpture, and printmaking to study variations on boundaries, paths, and liminal spaces. Her subject matter has included her childhood home, the side of the road, and other spaces entirely made-up or imagined. From April to June 2016, Smith will have a residency at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia. She has also studied woodworking at the Penland School of Crafts in Baskerville, North Carolina, and received a BA in Studio Art from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 2007. Smith has curated exhibits such as Artists’ Maps and Verbal/Visual at Fenwick Gallery on Mason’s Fairfax campus, and has designed and edited two art catalogs: Jacob Lawrence: The Toussaint L’Ouverture Series at the SEED School and Vertical Views: Silkscreen Monoprint Collage by Lou Stovall. Her work is in the collection of the U.S. Department of State.
Image: Regrowth, 2021, colored pencil drawing, 8 x 8 in., by Anne Smith