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Anne Alexander
Sculpture in Wood, Stone, Ceramic

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ANNE KAMILLA ALEXANDER – SCULPTOR

Windham, ME – 207-671-8272

annealexander@me.com

GRANTS AND AWARDS

  • Artist Project Grants–Maine Arts Commission–2015, 2016, 2021
  • Maine Crafts Association Apprenticeship Grant – Granite Carving 2020
  • Fulbright Senior/Scholar Fellowship– Study of Taino Art, The Dominican Republic 1998/99
  • Pollack/Krasner Foundation Grants – Awarded Twice, 1990 & 1995
  • GIG- Good Idea Grants– Maine Arts Commission, Funds to purchase carving equipment. 2004 & 2007
  • Creative Capitol Professional Development Grant to attend Seminar on Making a Living as an Artist 2012
  • Arts Learning Grant–Maine Arts Commission(MAC) –Teaching Sculpture Grant /Gardiner, ME Boys & Girls Club 2014
  • Arts Learning Grant–MAC–Taught carving to school groups- Viles Arboretum Sculpt. Symposium Augusta, ME 2015/16

SELECTED PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS

  • 2015 – 2024 Meredith Sculpture Walk, Meredith, NH Annual Outdoor Sculpture Show
  • 2019 – 2021 & 2023 – 2024 Art in the Orchard, Easthampton, MA
  • 2008- 2023 Art in The Park – Sited Sculpture Exhibits (6 shows) Elm Park, Worcester, MA
  • 2016, 2019, 2023 – Studios without Walls Site Exhibit Riverway Park, Brookline, MA
  • 1995 – 2021 June LaCombe, Hawk Ridge Farm Pownal, ME Annual Sited Sculpture Exhibits
  • 2020 Art Ramble Hapgood Wright Town Forest Concord, MA Sited Sculpture Exhibit
  • 2019 New England Sculptors Exhibit, Eustis Estate Milton, MA
  • 2019 Art on The Trails, Marking Territory Beals Preserve, Southborough, MA
  • 2017 Point of View Heritage Museums and Gardens Sandwich, MA Sited Sculpture exhibit
  • 2017 Power of Place at Laudholm Preserve, Wells ME Group exhibit curated by June LaCombe
  • 2001- 2018 University of New England, Westbrook, ME “Annual Sculpture Garden”
  • 2016 Chicago Tree Project Harrison Park, Pilsen, Chicago – Carved relief into a cut tree
  • 2016 Marsh- Billings State Park, Woodstock, VT New England Sculptors Museum Grounds exhibit
  • 2015 Art in Nature Group Sculpture Exhibit at Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA
  • 2013 & 2015 Art in the Park – Carving Wood Sculpture in Elm Park, Worcester, MA
  • 2014 – 2015 Bull City Sculpture Show Durham, NC – Sculpture Installed in Tobacco Park
  • 2014 The Ecotarium Museum Worcester, MA Permanent Installation of Acorn Grande Sculpture
  • 2014 Gardiner Main St. – Six Month Installation in Johnson Park, Gardiner, ME
  • 2014 Midstate Trail Art Project – Carving and Installation on the Trail – Oakham, MA
  • 2012- 2013 Sculpture Now in Hinsdale, MA Sculpture on the Green
  • 2013 Appearances Eco Arts Fest Provincetown, MA
  • 2005- 2013 Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Boothbay, ME Sculpture Shows Curated by June LaCombe
  • 2012 Common Boston Installation in Wellington Green Pocket Park South End Boston, MA
  • 2012 On The Wing, Maine Audubon, Falmouth and Boothbay Botanical Gardens, ME June LaCombe
  • 2011 Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts Big Art Concord, MA
  • 2011 Greenart Sculpture Garden Kittery, ME Organic Experiences Four Sculptors
  • 2010- 2011 Constellation Center Site – Ground Level Art – Six Sculptors, Cambridge, MA
  • 2008 The Andres Institute of Art Brookline, NH – Permanent Installation, International Sculptor Symposium
  • 2006 Kohl Children’s Museum of Chicago Commissioned Permanent Installation in Sculpture Garden
  • 2006- 2008 Burlington County College Sculpture Garden Pemberton, NJ
  • 2005 Kingston Sculpture Biennial 5 Kingston, NY
  • 2004 Sculpture NOW Sculpture by the River, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
  • 2002 Brooklyn Artist Coalition Brooklyn, NY Annual Exhibit at Empire-Fulton State Park
  • 2001 The Spirit of Place, Huntington, VT “Site Ecology” Outdoor Sculpture invitational
  • 2000- 2002 The Hollycroft Foundation, Ivoryton & Madison, CT “The Ivoryton Mile”
  • 1998- 1999 Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC “5th Annual Juried Exhibit”
  • 1998 & 1993 Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA Seasonal Outdoor Exhibitions
  • 1997 The Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA “Environmental Arts at The Fuller Museum”

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2022 SeaWeed Co. Portland, ME Seaweed Sculpture Sculpture in wood and clay
  • 2019 Husson University, Bangor, ME Robert E. White Gallery Seed Works in Stone
  • 2018 The Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME Seed Works in Stone & Ceramic
  • 2017 St. Lawrence Arts Portland, ME Guandules An installation of ceramic bean pod forms
  • 2016 Gallery 302 Bridgton, ME Veggie Delights Invited Featured Artist Solo Show
  • 2014 The Center for Maine Crafts Gardiner, ME Shell theme ceramic sculpture along with one photographer
  • 2012 The Breakwater Gallery Eastport, ME “Coquillage de La Mer”
  • 2009 The Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Me Ancient Life
  • 2006 & 2007 The Caldbeck Gallery, Garden Sculpture Installation, 2006 & La Vida Marina , 2007
  • 2003 & 2002 The Caldbeck Gallery, Sensations in Stone 2003, Botanical Pods 2002,
  • 1999 & 1995 The Caldbeck Gallery, Taino Inspirations 1999 , Alabaster Pods 1995
  • 1999 The National Theater, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Sponsored by U.S. Embassy
  • 1997 University of Maine Gallery, Farmington, ME Primary Life

RESIDENCIES AND SYMPOSIUMS

  • The Virginia Center for Creative Arts – Artist Residency- Amherst, VA Nov “19 & March 22
  • Monson Arts Residency Monson, ME April 2019
  • Maine Farmland Trust Artist Residency, Joseph Fiore Art Center Dresden, ME September 2017
  • East End Arts, Riverhead, NY – Sculptor in Residence – September – 2016
  • University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME – Sculptor in Residence –Spring Semester – 2016
  • The Midstate Trail Art Project –Oakham, MA Carving along trail, October 2014
  • Brush Creek Artist Residency – Saratoga, WY November 2013
  • Art in the Park Elm Park , Worcester – Carved in front of the public July 2013, & June 2015
  • Moulin å Nef Studio Center – Virginia Center For Creative Arts Residency Program – Auvillar, France 2010
  • The Andres Institute of Art Brookline, NH – International Sculptor Symposium – 2008
  • Vermont Studio Center – Two Fellowship/Residencies – Johnson, VT July 1999, March 2009
  • Marble, Marble Stone Carving Symposium – Marble, CO 2007
  • International Sculpture Symposium – Round Top Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, ME 2004
  • The Kingdom Art Center – Art in Nature Site Sculpture Symposium – Montville, ME 2001
  • Altos de Chavon – Three Month Artist Residency at Artist Colony – Dominican Republic 1990

SELECTED GALLERY GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2023 – 2024 Gascoine Gallery, Monson, ME Certainly Sculpture – Group exhibit of 6 clay sculptors
  • 2000 – 2024 The Caldbeck Gallery Rockland, Rotating Group Shows
  • 2019 Fiore Art Center Gallery, Jefferson, ME Past Artist- in Residence Group Show
  • 2018 Re: Artist Gallery, New York, NY Environmental Food Chain Group Show
  • 2018 The Maine Farmland Trust Gallery Belfast, ME Summer on the Land -Artist Residents show
  • 2017 Rennaissance Gallery Farmingdale, ME Four Person Exhibit
  • 2015 & 2016 The Maine Farmland Trust Belfast, ME Bearing Fruit and Wild Things Group 4 person theme shows
  • 2013, 14, 15, 16, 17 Tivoli Artist’s Coop Tivoli, NY Erotica annual themed show
  • 2013 – 2018 Yarmouth Frame & Gallery Yarmouth, ME Multiple Group Shows
  • 2014– 2018 The Breakwater Gallery Eastport, ME Multiple Group Shows
  • 2012 – 2016 Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden Concord, NH Multiple shows
  • 2012 & 2013 Chocolate Church Art Gallery Bath, ME “The Edge of the Sea” and “Autumn Feast”
  • 2010 -11 Messler Gallery, Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Rockport, ME “Contemporary Maine Wood Sculpture”
  • 2010 Lana Santorelli Gallery New York. NY “Lust”
  • 2010 Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME “Realism to Abstraction”
  • 2010 Sixth Street Gallery Vancouver, WA “The Art of Food”
  • 2009 Atrium Art Gallery, University of Southern Maine, Lewiston-Auburn College “Spineless Wonders”
  • 2009 La Galleria Denver, CO “Eros/Pulse”
  • 2008 The Gallery on Chase Hill Kennebunkport, ME “To the Beach”
  • 2005 Waldron Arts Center Bloomington, IN “Carved in Stone” Juried Exhibition
  • 2004 The Train Station Gallery West Stockbridge, MA Group Show
  • 2003 New Art Center Newton, MA “Plant Matter” Curated Show
  • 2001 The Anchorage Museum of Art Anchorage, AK “The Bug Show” Juried Exhibition
  • 2000 Hattiesburg Library, Hattiesburg, MS “National Small Sculpture Exhibition“
  • 2000 The Greenhut Gallery Portland, ME “Sculpture” Group Exhibition
  • 1999,1998,1990 Altos de Chavon La Romana, Dominican Republic. Artist-in-Residence Shows
  • 1996 Fuller Museum of Art Brockton, MA “ The Eighth Triennial” of New England Artists
  • 1996 Lakes Gallery South Casco, ME “From the Woods, Fifteen Sculptors/ One Material”
  • 1996 The Chocolate Church Bath, ME “Material Origins” Three Person Exhibition
  • 1996 Davison and Daughters Portland, ME “Tidescapes” Ocean related work, Invitational
  • 1995 &1993 Maine Coast Artists Rockport, ME Annual Juried Exhibitions
  • 1995 Shelburne Farms Museum Shelburne, VT “Envisioned in a Pastoral Setting”
  • 1994- 1995 Lookout Urban Space Soho, NY “Maquette “11” – Traveling Group Exhibition
  • 1993 Foothills Art Center Golden, CO “The North American Sculpture Exhibition”
  • 1992 The Frick Gallery Belfast, ME “Material Pleasures” Group Exhibition, Invitational
  • 1991 The Foundry Gallery Washington, DC “7×7” Small Works Exhibition
  • 1991 A.I.R. Gallery Soho, NY “Choice” Group Exhibition

EDUCATION

  • Master of Fine Arts Degree – Sculpture, Alfred University, NY
  • Bachelor of Arts Degree – Sculpture, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
  • Certificate in Art Education – Elmira College, Elmira, NY
  • Sculpture Technique Courses – Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
  • The Carving Studio – West Rutland, VT Stone Carving
  • Center for Furniture Craftsmanship – Rockport, ME Advanced Woodcarving with Chris Pye

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Art teacher at:

  • Public school- Gray- New Gloucester Middle School (10 years) and Independent School – Waynflete (12 years)
  • Taught 3-D Design, Sculpture & Drawing courses at University of Maine, Orono, ME, Alfred U. Alfred, NY
  • Altos-de Chavon Design School, La Romana, Dominican Republic, & Heartwood School, Kennebunk, ME
  • Currently teaching art part time as a visiting teaching artist in various settings, ages Pre-K- Senior Citizens
  • (A specialty is teaching sculpture including alabaster carving and clay)

LANGUAGES

English , Spanish & Basic French