Portrait photo credit: Kelly Fayrishta
About the Artist
Ann Marie Kennedy is an artist and papermaker who creates works of paper, prints and installations out of her studio in Raleigh, NC at Anchorlight Studios. She is an Associate Professor and Program Director of the AFA in Visual Arts at Wake Tech Community College. In 2001-4, she was a resident artist at Penland School of Crafts and is a frequent workshop instructor in hand papermaking. She has also been an artist in residence at Headlands (CA), Morgan Conservatory (OH), and Women’s Studio Workshop (NY). Awards include: North Carolina Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Award (2004-5), United Arts Council Regional Project Grants (2007, 2016). Ann Marie’s artwork involves the use of natural materials and fibers to create narratives about place and landscape. Her installations, prints, and works of paper have been exhibited both nationally and regionally in venues including: the Cameron Art Museum (NC), Gregg Museum (NC), Asheville Art Museum (NC), Cantor Art Gallery (MA), Women’s Studio (NY), Waterworks Visual Art Center (NC) and Horace Williams House (NC) and her artists’ books and editions are in many permanent collections, including Yale University, Bucknell University, University of Iowa, and Library of Congress.
Ann Marie Kennedy is teaching a class at Dieu Donné as part of the Summer Paper Institute from June 9 - 11. Learn more here.