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= Ann Weber (artist) = Ann Weber (born September 21, 1950) is an American artist living and working in the List of San Pedro artists area of Los Angeles. She received a BA in Art History at Purdue University in 1972 and an MFA in Ceramics at California College of the Arts in Oakland/San Francisco studying with Viola Frey Weber’s large organic sculptures exist in the borderland between abstraction and figuration. She commutes the everyday into the extraordinary, utilizing found cardboard to create poignant, sensuous, anthropomorphic forms Her tall, upright pieces bear striking resemblance to the human body, an effect that is amplified by the artist’s proclivity for grouping multiple sculptures into a single work, thereby alluding to our natural sociality and desire to find connection—within a clan, a family, or a relationship

Awards and Residencies
2018   Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

Visiting Artist and Scholars Program, American Academy in Rome

2016	Laila Twigg-Smith Artist Residency, Holualoa Foundation for Arts and Culture, Hawaii

2015	Philip C. Curtis Artist-in-Residence, Albion College, Albion, Michigan

2014	Artist in Residence, Lux Institute, Encinitas, California

Visiting Artist and Scholars Program, American Academy in Rome

2013	Artist in Residence, International School of Beijing, People's Republic of China

2012	Visiting Artist and Scholars Program, American Academy in Rome

2010	Artist in Residence, De Young Museum of San Francisco

Artist in Residence, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, California 2007	Oberpfalzer Kunslerhaus Resident Artist Award, Schwandorf, Germany

2004	Public Art Award, Americans for the Arts, Public Art Network, Year in Review

2003	Interview for Spark, a program about Bay Area Artists by KQED PublicTelevision, San Francisco

1999	Djerassi Resident Artist, Helen L. Bing Fellowship, Woodside, California

1998	Recipient California Arts Council Individual Fellowship (Visual Arts)