Anne Arrasmith
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Anne Arrasmith is an American
artist and curator
who lives and works in Birmingham
, Alabama
. She co-founded and operates along with Peter Prinz the not-for-profit Space One Eleven. Arrasmith was a student of Edith Frohock
while at University of Alabama at Birmingham
.
She and Peter Prinz founded Space One Eleven with a mission to present significant, provocative exhibitions that confront ideas in a southern context or framework. Arrasmith is the director for this facility.
Arrasmith received support from the Birmingham Museum of Art
before it began receiving grants from the Andy Warhol
Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts
. Under the leadership of Arrasmith and Peter Prinz, Space One Eleven has made it possible for the children who live in Metropolitan Gardens to participate in art.
Along with Peter Prinz, "Open StudioThe Arts Online, Mentor" is an effort focused on community-building by providing free access to computers, the Internet and training to youth, artists, and community representatives. It is co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts
and the Benton Foundation
, on behalf of Birmingham's youth has received national recognition in the President's Council on the Arts and Humanities Report, "Coming Up Taller: Arts and Humanities Programs for Youth-at-Risk."
Arrasmith is on the steering committee of Birmingham Art and Music Alliance. Arrasmith is a participating member of The NEA Tapes through the Eidia House in New York, NY along with other notables Edward Albee
, Jane Alexander
, Ed Asner
, Ron Athey
, Chuck Close
, Karen Finley
, Agnes Gund
, Alex Katz
. David Moos
, Tim Robbins
, Andres Serrano
, Kiki Smith
and Lawrence Weiner
among many others. Arrasmith works with Creative Capital as a recommender helping to determine grant nominees.
Since 1987, Anne Arrasmith has included numerous artists' books
into her exhibitions including the works of Sara Garden Armstrong
, Larry Gens Anderson, Pinky Bass
, Jon Coffelt
, Edith Frohock
, Anne Howard
, Lee Isaacs
, Joni Mabe, Mary Ann Sampson
, David Sandlin, Joel Seah and Marie Weaver
along with many others who have worked in field of book arts.
United States
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artist and curator
Curator
A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
who lives and works in Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...
, Alabama
Alabama
Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...
. She co-founded and operates along with Peter Prinz the not-for-profit Space One Eleven. Arrasmith was a student of Edith Frohock
Edith Frohock
Edith Frohock was an American artist who lived and worked in Birmingham, Alabama. Frohock specialized in painting, printmaking and artist's books and was the first instructor to teach book arts in the South....
while at University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is a public university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama. Developing from an extension center established in 1936, the institution became an autonomous institution in 1969 and is today one of three institutions in the University of Alabama System...
.
She and Peter Prinz founded Space One Eleven with a mission to present significant, provocative exhibitions that confront ideas in a southern context or framework. Arrasmith is the director for this facility.
Arrasmith received support from the Birmingham Museum of Art
Birmingham Museum of Art
Founded in 1951, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama today has one of the finest collections in the Southeast US, with more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing a numerous diverse cultures, including Asian, European, American,...
before it began receiving grants from the Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
. Under the leadership of Arrasmith and Peter Prinz, Space One Eleven has made it possible for the children who live in Metropolitan Gardens to participate in art.
- Perhaps the most dramatic projects for Space One Eleven is the freestanding mosaic panels immediately east of the Birmingham Museum of ArtBirmingham Museum of ArtFounded in 1951, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama today has one of the finest collections in the Southeast US, with more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing a numerous diverse cultures, including Asian, European, American,...
made from thousands of clay tiles fired by the children.- Michael N. Calvert
Along with Peter Prinz, "Open StudioThe Arts Online, Mentor" is an effort focused on community-building by providing free access to computers, the Internet and training to youth, artists, and community representatives. It is co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
and the Benton Foundation
Benton Foundation
The Benton Foundation is a nonprofit organization set up by former U.S. Senator, William Benton and his wife, Helen Hemingway Benton. Its present chairman and CEO is their son, Charles Benton....
, on behalf of Birmingham's youth has received national recognition in the President's Council on the Arts and Humanities Report, "Coming Up Taller: Arts and Humanities Programs for Youth-at-Risk."
Arrasmith is on the steering committee of Birmingham Art and Music Alliance. Arrasmith is a participating member of The NEA Tapes through the Eidia House in New York, NY along with other notables Edward Albee
Edward Albee
Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright who is best known for The Zoo Story , The Sandbox , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , and a rewrite of the screenplay for the unsuccessful musical version of Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's . His works are considered well-crafted, often...
, Jane Alexander
Jane Alexander
Jane Alexander is an American actress, author, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. Although perhaps best known for playing the female lead in The Great White Hope on both stage and screen, Alexander has played a wide array of roles in both theater and film and has committed...
, Ed Asner
Ed Asner
Edward Asner , commonly known as Ed Asner, is an American film, television, stage, and voice actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Lou Grant on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant...
, Ron Athey
Ron Athey
Ron Athey is an American performance artist associated with body art and with extreme performance art. He has performed in the U.S. and internationally . Athey's work explores challenging subjects like the relationships between desire, sexuality, and traumatic experience...
, Chuck Close
Chuck Close
Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits...
, Karen Finley
Karen Finley
Karen Finley is an American performance artist, whose theatrical pieces and recordings have often been labelled "obscene" due to their graphic depictions of sexuality, abuse, and disenfranchisement...
, Agnes Gund
Agnes Gund
Agnes Gund , is an American philanthropist, art patron and collector, and advocate for arts education. She is founding trustee of the Agnes Gund Foundation and President Emerita of the Museum of Modern Art and Chairman of its International Council. She is also Chairman of MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art...
, Alex Katz
Alex Katz
Alex Katz is an American figurative artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints and is represented by numerous galleries internationally.-Life and work:...
. David Moos
David Moos
David Moos is the Curator of Contemporary Art at AGO Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.Moos went to Jesse Ketchum Public School in Yorkville, Toronto and then went on to Jarvis Collegiate, he received a doctorate in art history from Columbia University and is a contributing editor to Art Papers...
, Tim Robbins
Tim Robbins
Timothy Francis "Tim" Robbins is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musician. He is the former longtime partner of actress Susan Sarandon...
, Andres Serrano
Andres Serrano
Andres Serrano is an American photographer and artist who has become notorious through his photos of corpses and his use of feces and bodily fluids in his work, notably his controversial work "Piss Christ", a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported...
, Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith is an American artist classified as a feminist artist, a movement with beginnings in the twentieth century...
and Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence Weiner was a central figure in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s His work often takes the form of typographic texts.- Life and career :...
among many others. Arrasmith works with Creative Capital as a recommender helping to determine grant nominees.
Curatorial work
- Jon CoffeltJon CoffeltJohnny Lee Coffelt born is an American artist who lives and works in Manhattan in the Financial District of New York City. Coffelt paints, sculpts, sews, makes book arts and curates art exhibitions.-Background:...
was the inaugural artist at Space One Eleven when it was founded by Arrasmith and Peter Prinz, opening in 1989 in Birmingham, AL.
- "UpSouth" partially funded by the Andy WarholAndy WarholAndrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the ArtsNational Endowment for the ArtsThe National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
was curated and organized by Arrasmith and traveled to several venues across Birmingham, AL in one day, including Space One Eleven, Birmingham Civil Rights InstituteBirmingham Civil Rights InstituteBirmingham Civil Rights Institute is a large interpretive museum and research center in Birmingham, Alabama that depicts the struggles of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s...
, the Visual Arts Gallery of University of Alabama at BirminghamUniversity of Alabama at BirminghamThe University of Alabama at Birmingham is a public university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama. Developing from an extension center established in 1936, the institution became an autonomous institution in 1969 and is today one of three institutions in the University of Alabama System...
, and AgnesAgnes (gallery)Agnes was a Birmingham, Alabama photography gallery from 1993 to 2001. Shawn Boley, Jon Coffelt and Jan Hughes opened the gallery with the mission of attempting to raise awareness of social issues — such as cancer, AIDS, death and dying, the environment, homelessness, ethics, racism,...
. It showed the work of artists Emma Amos and Willie Birch and writer bell hooksBell hooksGloria Jean Watkins , better known by her pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist....
, as well as Ann Benton, Priscilla Hancock Cooper, Karen GraffeoKaren GraffeoKaren Graffeo is an American artist based in Birmingham, Alabama. While specializing in photography, Graffeo is also a choreographer and installation artist. Early in her photography career, she worked as Jerry Uelsmann's assistant and model...
, Janice KlugeJanice KlugeJanice Kluge is an American artist who specializes in large and small scale sculpture. She hold a BFA with honors from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and an MFA for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kluge is Professor Emeritus of sculpture and drawing at the University of Alabama...
Lee IsaacsLee IsaacsLee Isaacs is an American photographer, living and working in Birmingham, Alabama.Isaacs studied pinhole photography with Pinky Bass. He has worked both with commercial and art photography. He works with photography seminars and teaches classes and workshops across the US.He has involved himself...
, Mary Ann SampsonMary Ann SampsonMary Ann Sampson is an American artist living and working in Ragland, Alabama. Sampson is a Book artist, specializing in miniatures and broadsides most of which are uniques or one-of-a-kinds. She explores the book as a means of expressing visual ideas that stem from recollections of personal...
, Jess Marie Walker and Marie WeaverMarie WeaverMarie Weaver is an American artist who specializes in printmaking, book arts, painting, and graphic design. Weaver earned a B. A. from the University of Vermont and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University....
.
- In 2000, Arrasmith curated "House and Garden: Twists on Domesticity," at Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL through a grant from the Andy WarholAndy WarholAndrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
Foundation for the Arts. The exhibition included the work of Karen Rich Beall and Jon CoffeltJon CoffeltJohnny Lee Coffelt born is an American artist who lives and works in Manhattan in the Financial District of New York City. Coffelt paints, sculpts, sews, makes book arts and curates art exhibitions.-Background:...
. This exhibition also included a catalog with a foreword by David MoosDavid MoosDavid Moos is the Curator of Contemporary Art at AGO Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.Moos went to Jesse Ketchum Public School in Yorkville, Toronto and then went on to Jarvis Collegiate, he received a doctorate in art history from Columbia University and is a contributing editor to Art Papers...
. In this exhibition, Beall exhibited realistic tableau life-size sculpture while Coffelt hand-sewed more than 250 miniature garments that were exhibited as memory sculptures.
- “Art on the Inside” a self-portrait exhibition of prisoners who are part of the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Program incorporating drawings, paintings, poems and stories. This arrangement to exhibit this work is as much educational as it is artistic, but don’t think this is simply an exercise in kindness.
- “Every human being can express something – even in the most depressing and oppressive of environments,” says Anne Arrasmith, co-owner of Space One Eleven. She has just seen the works for the first time this week, as well. -Anne Arrasmith
- "BAMA" curated by Arrasmith in 2004, included the works of Amy Pleasant, Annie Kammerer Butrus and Jane Timberlake. The exhibition showcases three of Birmingham's most promising artists.
- "Suspended in Conflict" in 2005 was the work of three established artists that was created based on introspection and the intense questions raised by a rapidly changing Southern culture. This exhibit curated by Arrasmith, provided Darius Hill, Larry Jens Anderson, and James Emmette Neel with the opportunity to experiment and to present new works that challenge myth and reality. This exhibition was funded by a grant from the Andy WarholAndy WarholAndrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
Foundation for the Visual Arts.
- "Politics, Politics: Nice Artists Explore the Political Landscape" curated by Arrasmith and Peter Prinz of Space One Eleven was funded by the Andy WarholAndy WarholAndrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
Foundation for the Visual Arts and included Pinky BassPinky BassPinky M. M. Bass is an American photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography.Bass, a resident of Fairhope, Alabama, has exhibited at a number of museums including the Ashville Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta,...
, Clayton ColvinClayton ColvinClayton Colvin is an American artist and Curator of Contemporary Art who lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama. He received a BA in Art History from New York University in 1999 and an MA Ed. Art Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2003...
, Peggy Dobbins, Randy Gachet, Binx Newton, Arthur Price, John TrobaughJohn TrobaughJohn Trobaugh in Lansing, Michigan is an American artist specializing in photography and based in Birmingham, Alabama. Trobaugh received his BFA in 1996 with honors from University of Alabama at Birmingham and went on to study photography at the School of Visual Arts...
, Paul Ware, and Stan Woodard. This exhibition featured the introspective works of nine artists, both established and emerging, as they explored the personal and social impact of political events and trends. Those explorations, in turn, become universal statements on the impact politics has had on environment, sports, religion, race, and government in the South.
Since 1987, Anne Arrasmith has included numerous artists' books
Artists' Books
Artists' books are works of art realized in the form of a book. They are often published in small editions, though sometimes they are produced as one-of-a-kind objects referred to as "uniques"....
into her exhibitions including the works of Sara Garden Armstrong
Sara Garden Armstrong
Sara Garden Armstrong is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. Armstrong creates sculptures, paintings, drawings from miniature to wall size, artist's books, multimedia artworks involving computers sound and light, and constructs permanent installations in atrium spaces...
, Larry Gens Anderson, Pinky Bass
Pinky Bass
Pinky M. M. Bass is an American photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography.Bass, a resident of Fairhope, Alabama, has exhibited at a number of museums including the Ashville Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta,...
, Jon Coffelt
Jon Coffelt
Johnny Lee Coffelt born is an American artist who lives and works in Manhattan in the Financial District of New York City. Coffelt paints, sculpts, sews, makes book arts and curates art exhibitions.-Background:...
, Edith Frohock
Edith Frohock
Edith Frohock was an American artist who lived and worked in Birmingham, Alabama. Frohock specialized in painting, printmaking and artist's books and was the first instructor to teach book arts in the South....
, Anne Howard
Anne Howard
Anne Howard may refer to:*Anne Howard *Ann Howard , Australian author and journalist*Anne Marie Howard , b...
, Lee Isaacs
Lee Isaacs
Lee Isaacs is an American photographer, living and working in Birmingham, Alabama.Isaacs studied pinhole photography with Pinky Bass. He has worked both with commercial and art photography. He works with photography seminars and teaches classes and workshops across the US.He has involved himself...
, Joni Mabe, Mary Ann Sampson
Mary Ann Sampson
Mary Ann Sampson is an American artist living and working in Ragland, Alabama. Sampson is a Book artist, specializing in miniatures and broadsides most of which are uniques or one-of-a-kinds. She explores the book as a means of expressing visual ideas that stem from recollections of personal...
, David Sandlin, Joel Seah and Marie Weaver
Marie Weaver
Marie Weaver is an American artist who specializes in printmaking, book arts, painting, and graphic design. Weaver earned a B. A. from the University of Vermont and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University....
along with many others who have worked in field of book arts.
Books and Catalogs
- House and Garden: Twists on Domesticity, foreword by David MoosDavid MoosDavid Moos is the Curator of Contemporary Art at AGO Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.Moos went to Jesse Ketchum Public School in Yorkville, Toronto and then went on to Jarvis Collegiate, he received a doctorate in art history from Columbia University and is a contributing editor to Art Papers...
- UpSouth by bell hooksBell hooksGloria Jean Watkins , better known by her pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist....
, Emma Amos and Antoinette Spanos Nordan, University Press, University of Alabama, Birmingham, 1999, pp 70–73 - White Graphics: The Power of White in Graphic Design (Paperback), 2001 by Gail Deiber Finke, Rockport Graphic Arts 103 pgs. included many examples of Marie WeaverMarie WeaverMarie Weaver is an American artist who specializes in printmaking, book arts, painting, and graphic design. Weaver earned a B. A. from the University of Vermont and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University....
s work for UpSouth. - BAMA 2004, catalog, Space One Eleven, Andy WarholAndy WarholAndrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
Foundation for the Visual Arts - New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural DevelopmentNew Village PressNew Village Press is a not-for-profit book publisher based in Oakland, CA. It is a national publishing project of Architects/ Designers/ Planners for Social Responsibility ADPSR, an educational non-profit organization founded in 1982...
2006 Interview on page 261 by Arlene GoldbardArlene GoldbardArlene Goldbard is a writer, social activist and consultant whose focus is the intersection of culture, politics, and spirituality. She is best known as an advocate for cultural democracy and a creator of cultural critique and new cultural policy proposals....
, Lulu Press Morrisville, North CarolinaMorrisville, North CarolinaMorrisville is a town in Wake County, North Carolina, United States. A small portion of the town extends into Durham County. The population was 18,576 according to a April 1, 2010 census. Morrisville is part of the Research Triangle metropolitan region...
ISBN 0976605457 - The Last Folk Hero: A True Story of Race And Art, Power And Profit2006 By Andrew Dietz, 377 pgs. Arrasmith is mentioned several times., Ellis Lane Press, Atlanta, GeorgiaAtlanta, GeorgiaAtlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
ISBN 0977196801