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Ann Vandervelde
Abstract Artist

 
 
 
Artist's Statement
Education
Exhibits
Books and Lectures
Corporate Clients

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ARTIST'S STATEMENT

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Ann Vandervelde, Seattle and Lopez Island, Washington artist, creates works that reflect structure, objects, texture, and color defined by reflection and observation. The artist’s materials are a mixture of papers, acrylics, oil pastels, and house paint on canvas. Shape takes form, images appear and disappear like the titles at the beginning, middle, and end of each work. For Vandervelde the challenge is to accept that a composition is never quite done, that it has the capacity to evolve and change and be understood separate from that initial vision.

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EDUCATION

 

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON

B.S. Art

 

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY

M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction (Concentration Language and Literacy)

Teacher Certification (Secondary Education, English Literature)

 

NYU LONDON - NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Graduate work in Media Studies

 

WHITELEY CENTER UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FRIDAY HARBOR, WA

Visiting Scholar

EXHIBITS

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  • Globe Fine Art Santa Fe NM. One Woman Show 2023

  • Art Movement Colorado – Group Show 2020

  • LaFontsee Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI - Group Show 2017

  • Petley-Jones, Vancouver BC – 2015 and “Imaginary Borders” - 2017

  • IMA Gallery, Seattle – 2016

  • Collaborative project with glass artist and Forestry Department agent on effects of tree loss from clear cutting and fires - 2017

  • Collaborative project with architect, David Vandervort - Symbiotic Design with Nature - 2011

  • Sacred, Spiritual Places, Icons University House, Issaquah, WA - 2011

  • Interpreting Climate Change Department of Ecology, Lacey, WA - 2011

  • I│M│A Gallery, Seattle, WA Evans Sculpture Gallery, Nantucket, MA - 2010

  • Petley-Jones Gallery. Vancouver, BC - 2010

  • Petley-Jones Gallery. Vancouver, BC - 2009

  • I│M│A Gallery, Seattle, WA - 2008

  • Broderick Gallery, Portland, OR

  • Fiori Gallery, Cleveland, OH

  • Artist Archives, Cleveland, OH (Permanent collection)

  • Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

  • Grinning Byrd Gallery, Cleveland, OH

  • Lock Haven State University Museum, PA

  • Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA

  • The Pennsylvania State University

  • Roanoke Museum Art, Roanoke, VA

  • Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, PA

  • National Watercolor Society, Fullerton, CA

  • Women’s Center, Jacksonville, FL

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BOOKS AND LECTURES

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  • Hera and Hebe - Poems and Paintings
    ISBN: 978-0-615-28567-2
    Available on Amazon

  • The Inner Eye: Paintings and Their Perceptions
    International Diabetes Conference
    Alexandria, Egypt, 2006

  • Design a Life Conference / Art and Poetry for Special Populations
    Cleveland State University, 2008

CORPORATE CLIENTS

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  • Marriott Hotels

  • Disney Corporation

  • CBS/How to be a gentleman, CSI-NY

  • Warner Brothers/Suburgatory

  • ABC/Brothers and Sisters

  • The Cleveland Clinic

  • The Cleveland State University

  • Cleveland Art Association

  • American Diabetes Association

  • Cleveland Institute of Music

  • NASA Glenn Space Center, OH

  • NOVEL, Munich, Germany

  • US Government Art in Embassies Program

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