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EDUCATION

Rhode Island School of Design, Master of Fine Art, Providence, RI  - Furniture Design  2007  

Furniture Department Service Award-  For the student who shows concern for their fellow students and willingly serves the needs of the Department  2007

Rhode Island School of Design, Bachelor of Fine Art, Providence, RI -  Furniture Design, plus one year of Industrial Design study   1999

Brown University, Sheridan Teaching Center, Providence, RI - Certificate in Collegiate Teaching  - Full-year course focused on studying and developing personal teaching philosophies  2007                                                   

EXHIBITIONS

Tyger Tyger, Reckoning: Adornment as Narrative Asheville, NC 2023

Center For Craft, Let Them Eat Cake, Asheville, NC 2023

Tacoma Museum of Glass, Boundless Curiosity: A Journey with Robert Minkoff, Tacoma, WA 2022-23

Mill Collective, Round Top Vintage and Design Show, Round Top, TX 2022

Fuller Craft Museum, Out of Bounds: The Art of Croquet, Brockton, MA 2022

Alma’s (Invitational, 4-person show) WOMAN MADE, Richmond, VA 2022

Center For In Art in Wood, Out of Bounds: The Art of Croquet, Philadelphia, PA 2021

The William King Museum of Art, Mastering Craft, (invitational) Abington, VA 2021

The Center for Art in Wood, Making a Seat at the Table: Women Transform Woodworking (juried) Philadelphia, PA October 2019 -January 2020

Houston Center For Contemporary Craft, OBJECTS: REDUX (invitational) Houston, TX September 2019 -January 2020

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Furnished (juried) Winston-Salem, NC July 2019- January 2020

Museum of Art and Design (MAD), The Burke Prize 2018 The Future of Craft Part 2 (Burke prize finalist exhibition) New York, NY October 2018- March 2019

Blue Spiral, Take a Seat (invitational) September-November Asheville, NC 2018

Houston Center For Contemporary Craft, Multiple Impressions (solo) Houston, TX June-September 2017

The Furniture Society at ICFF, (juried group) New York, NY 2017

Wanted Design, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY 2016

Arrowmont Gallery, Touch, Interactive craft,   Gatlinburg, TN   2016

Greenhill Center for NC Art, Winter Show, Greensboro, NC   2016

Upstairs Gallery Tryon, Have A Seat, NC 2016

Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design,  Asheville, NC, 2015

ICFF, New York, New York 2013, 2015                                     

UNC at Asheville Owen Gallery,  Asheville, NC, 2014                                  

Factory Floor, Brooklyn, New York  2013                                                                                                                              

Wanted Design, (juried group) New York, New York  2013                                    

Ventura Lambrate, (juried group) Milan, Italy  2013                                             

Magnan Metz Gallery, Table Fights 1-5, (co-creator) , New York, NY   2008-2012

Soft Hard Wood, (2-man show) Kip Gallery, Indiana, PA   2011

Fair Folks and a Goat, New Orleans, LA   2011

100% Design, (juried group) Shanghai, China   2009

Art WORKS, (3-man show) Coup d’oeil Art Consortium, New Orleans, LA    2009

Bits and Pieces (oversaw curation) Colton Gallery, New Orleans, LA   2009

The Art of St. Claude, (curated) Colton Gallery, New Orleans, LA   2009

Faculty Biennial, RISD Museum, Providence, RI   2009

Designer Days Paris, Crystalized, Paris, France   2008

Habitat Valencia, (juried group) Valencia, Spain   2008

Open and Shut, (juried group) Dead Cat Gallery, Providence, RI   2008

Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Providence, RI    2007

Crystal Connection, Swarovski, ICFF Fair, NY, NY   2007

Rim Shot, (curated), Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence RI   2007

Input/Output, (juried group) Martha Stewart Gallery New York, NY  2006

Legs and Eggs, (co-curated), ID Gallery, Providence, RI  2006

A Rock and a Soft Place, (co-curated), Firehouse 13, Providence, RI  2006

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

Visiting Artist Fellowship, Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Rockport, ME 2023

Art Affects Grant, Awarded by Dash Studio, North Carolina, 2022

Craft for the Greater Good Resident Fellow, Asheville, NC, 2021

Featured Artist at the Annual Penland Auction, (1 of 3) Penland, NC, 2020

Windgate Residency, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 2020

Wornick Distinguished Visiting Professor, California College of the Arts, San Fransisco, CA 2019

Burke Prize Finalist, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY 2018

Windgate Residency, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 2018

John D. Mineck Furniture Fellowship, Society of Arts and Crafts  2016

Artist in Residence Penland School of Crafts, Penland, N.C.   2014-2107

Winner Uncommon Goods Furniture Design Challenge, New York, NY  2014

Penland Invitational Wood Iron Glass Symposium, Penland, N.C.  2014

Windgate Residency Artist in Residence Recipient, Indiana, P.A.  2011

Rhode Island Council for the Arts (RISCA), Individual Artist Grant to support Table Fights (Cara Blaine)  2011

Best Exterior Upholstery, Marine Fabricator National Convention NY, NY  2009

Creative Alliance of New Orleans- Grant recipient, New Orleans, LA      2008

Wallpaper Magazine – Chosen top 110 graduates from around the world.    2007

 

PUBLICATIONS

American Craft Magazine, Turning Houses into Homes, (Craft for the Greater Good, Furniture Society) Elizabeth Foy Larsen, Winter Issue 2022

American Craft Magazine, Community of Makers: Crafting the Future, Zippy Guerin, December/ January Issue 2021

Asheville Made, Furniture Maker Never Took Tradition Sitting Down, Tom Kerr, August 2020

Pantone View Colour Planner, Spring/Summer 2021 Forecast, Botanica 2020

Furniture & Cabinetmaking Magazine, One Woman’s Work, Christine Boggis, Issue 291 2020

American Craft Magazine, Shows to See, November 2019

Interior Design, Homes Edition, Happenings, Fall 2019

Impossible Design, by Agata Toromanoff - DuMont Buchverlag GmbH 2018

James Renwick Alliance Quarterly, Collaboration in Craft: Spotlight on Annie Evelyn and Shae Bishop, Washington, DC   2017

Alaska Beyond, Please Be Seated, August, Alaska   2017

Glasstire, Top Five, Houston, TX   2017

Ikea Trend Report, The World Changes   2015

American Craft Magazine, Cover June/July  2014

ID Boston, Makers Guild focus on artisanship and talent, Spring  2014

Pasajes Arquitectura, New Colony, Annie Evelyn June  2014

Independent Design Guide, Innovative Products from

the New Generation, By Laura Houseley - Thames & Hudson  2009

Sisustaja (Decorator), Vetruvad Mustrid (Springy Pattens), Estonia  2013

J.J. Magazine, Great Comfort, Seoul, South Korea  2013

Design Milk, Squishy chairs by New Colony Furniture  2013

Core 77, Avant Garde Upholstery by Annie Evelyn   2013

Core 77, Squishy Sticks by Annie Evelyn   2013

Inhabitat, Annie Evelyn Creates Reclaimed Cypress Chairs   2013

American Woodworker , New York’s Furniture Fair 2013 – part 2  2013

About.com, Brooklyn Furniture Makers with Flair   2013

Buro, Мягкие стулья от New Colony Furniture, Russia  2013

3 Rings, ICFF 2013: New Colony Furniture  2013

Providence Business News, RISD grads work on prize-winning film   2012

Crafthaus, Table Fights + Plane Wars = A Woodworker’s Playground  2010

The Furniture Society, Table Fights   2010

Apartment Therapy, Table Fights   2009

The Brown Daily Herald, How the Tables Have Turned – On Each Other  2009

Elle Deco, En el Mundo de Oz, In the World of Oz   2008

Times Picayune, Pimp My Ride Upholstery Workshop  2008

Wallpaper Online, Highlights from ICFF    2008

Artnet Magazine, Crystal Furniture at ICFF   2008

Crystallized Magazine, Swarovski Collaborative, interview   2008

Design Sponge, ICFF 2007: Part Two   2007

Wallpaper Graduate Directory, New Designer Online Guide   2007

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, A Rock and a Soft Place    2006

GUEST SPEAKER, VISITING ARTIST, AND CRITIC

Furniture Society Conference, Panel Speaker, Craft for a Greater Good, New Orleans, LA 2023

Furniture Society Conference, The Legacy of Alphonse Mattia, New Orleans, LA 2023

James Renwick Alliance- Guest Speaker - Distinguished Artist Series, Washington, DC, 2020    

San Diego State University –Guest Speaker- Windgate San Diego, CA 2020    

California College of the Arts –Guest Speaker –Throwing A Party And Making The Furniture That Goes With It, San Francisco, CA  2019        

Krenov School of Fine Furniture– Guest Speaker Fort Bragg, CA 2019        

Heron School of Art and Design – Guest Speaker - Phillip Tennant Furniture Artisan Lecture, Indianapolis, IN 2019        

Sam Maloof Futures Conference- Panel Speaker - "The Path Forward: Art, Artists, and Their Practice”. Rancho Cucamonga, CA Panel led by Tom Loeser with Tanya Aguiniga and Carole Hochman 2018        

Furniture Society Conference- Guest Speaker - You’re Allowed to Laugh, funded by the American Craft Council, San Francisco, CA, 2018        

University of Wisconsin- Madison – Guest Speaker- Visiting Artist Colloquium, Madison, WI 2018        

University of Arkansas at Little Rock – Visiting Artist, gave lecture and workshop, Little Rock, AR 2016    

Stetson College – Visiting Artist on Arts Entrepreneurship Panel Deland, FL 2016    

Rhode Island School of Design - Guest Critic, Providence, RI 2016-14           

University of North Carolina School of the Arts – Kenan Institute visiting artist, Lecture and workshop Winston Salem, NC 2015    

Parsons, The New School – Guest Lecturer, New York, NY   2011-14           


TEACHING & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Virginia Commonwealth University, VCU Arts Craft and Material Studies, Head of the Wood Area, Assistant Professor - Richmond, VA,2023-current

Tennesee Tech University, Assistant Professor - Cookeville, TN 2021-2023

The California College of the Arts, Wornick Distinguished Visiting Professor - San Francisco, CA “The Art of Throwing a Good Party and Making the Furniture to Go With It” 2019

Penland School of Crafts, Spring Session Faculty -Penland, NC “Chairish Every Moment” 2019

Haystack, Summer Faculty, "Altered Interactions: Experimental Furniture" Deer Isle, ME 2017

Rhode Island School of Design, Adjunct Faculty, Senior studio Degree project/Thesis - Providence, RI   2016

Appalachian State University,  Adjunct Faculty, Boone, NC  2015

Penland School of Crafts, Spring Session Faculty -Penland, NC  Chair and Ottoman, Built and Upholstered   2015

Penland School of Crafts, Fall Session Faculty - Independent Study Upholstery 2014

Rhode Island School of Design, Adjunct Faculty, Senior studio Degree project/Thesis - Providence, RI   2014

Parsons, The New School, Adjunct Faculty - NY, NY  Soft Materials Lecture and Studio  2014             

Penland School of Crafts, Summer Faculty - Penland, NC - Locomotion – Co-taught with Chloris Andrew Lowe  2013

Anderson Ranch, Summer Faculty - Snowmass, CO - Take a Walk on the Soft Side Co-taught with Alphonse Mattia    2012

Indiana University Of Pennsylvania, Adjunct Faculty - Indiana, PA - Introduction to Woodworking   2011              

Rhode Island School of Design, Adjunct Faculty - Providence, RI - Take This Chair and Stuff It   2006-2009

Rhode Island School of Design, Adjunct Faculty - Providence, RI - Table Fights, co-taught with Shaun Bullens    2009

Rhode Island School of Design, Adjunct Faculty - Providence, RI - Knit My Chair, Independent study  2009

Beasts of the Southern Wild - New Orleans, LA – Court 13    2010-2011

           Associate Producer - assisted in production

           Assistant Casting Director - Advertised and organized casting calls throughout the entire region of Southern Louisiana.

           Set Decorator & On Set Dresser - Designed and built sets and furnishings.

Pimp My Ride Upholstery Workshops - New Orleans, LA  Created and taught after-school program to teach kids automotive upholstery.  2008-2009

Studio at Colton Gallery, Gallery Creator/Curator - New Orleans, LA    2009

 Initiated the use of the 3,500 hundred square foot space in the center of the studios to be an artist curated gallery and functioned as head curator.

Rhode Island School of Design, Adjunct Faculty - Providence, RI - Knitting for Furniture,  Independent study  2008      

Rhode Island School of Design, Summer Faculty - Providence, RI - One by One: Experimental  Search for Innovative Furniture  2007

New Colony Design, Owned operated upholstery and furniture design business - Providence, Rhode Island, New Orleans, LA, Brooklyn, 2003-14

COMMUNITY SERVICE AND PROGRAMMING

Crafting the Future, Co-founder- Development Director, USA 2019-current

Furniture Society, Board member, 2023-current

RVA Urban Wood, Board Member, 2024-current

GreenWood, Board Member -A non-profit promoting sustainable forestry. 2022-current

Furniture Society, Craft for the Greater Good Resident Fellow, Asheville, NC 2021

Avery/Mitchell Correctional Institute, Visiting Artist, AMCI/Penland Prison Arts Partnership, 2018

Mitchell County Mentoring Program, Mentor to three high school girls, Penland, NC 2014-17

Pimp My Ride Upholstery Workshops, Created and taught free after-school programs to teach

kids automotive upholstery out of my studio, New Orleans, LA 2008-09

Studio at Colton Gallery, Community Gallery, Creator/Curator, New Orleans, LA 2009

 

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