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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