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Anne Wilson artist

Anne Wilson (born 1949) is a Chicago based visual artist and educator who’s artistic practice has been actuated by several distinct life events including attending a Quaker boarding school, George School, in Pennsylvania where she received training in feminist theory and the philosophies of passive resistance through the study of Ghandi’s teachings on non-violent politics. According to Wilson “The teachings of Ghandi and especially the exhortation to all Indians to practice spinning -- for social, political, economic and spiritual reasons” was a profound influence. Wilson received her BFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and her MFA from California College of Art and Craft (now California College of Art)  Berkley, Ca. . During the 1970’s while in Berkley, Ca. Wilson honed her “warrior-like spirit about the relevance of fiber and textile processes in art making alongside more conventional fine art materials and techniques”. Wilson creates sculpture, drawings, Internet projects, photography, performance, and DVD stop motion animations employing table linens, bed sheets, human hair, lace, thread and wire. Her work is rooted in the traditions of Fiber Art utilizing time honored techniques such as stitching, crocheting, and knitting but, cannot be exclusively defined by such narrow terminology. Wilson work explores personal and public practices of ritual and social systems, ideas of de-construction and re-construction in both microcosmic and macrocosmic worlds of public and private architecture as well as themes of time and loss.