Anne C. Smith (b. Syracuse, NY) is an artist based in Washington, DC. Her work in drawing and silkscreen printmaking considers the relationship between landscape, home and the imagination.
Smith studied silkscreen printmaking with Master Printmaker Lou Stovall while working as his studio assistant. She has enjoyed teaching both university-level classes as well as community workshops, and currently splits time between her studio and caring for three wildly awesome children.
In 2023, Smith was an inaugural CARD Fellow, a collaboration between the Phillips Collection, DC Public Libraries and the Nicholson Project, along with artists Paloma Vianey and Tina Villadolid. Previously, she worked on large collaborative printmaking projects — wheatpasting a large-scale mural with Ben Ashworth’s Finding a Line, and master printmaker to Louis K. Schmidt’s book project with George Mason University’s Navigation Press. She has taught drawing at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, George Mason University and Northern Virginia Community College, and was previously a Screenprint Associate with Pyramid Atlantic in Hyattsville, MD.
Her practice is informed by poetry, woodworking studies at the Penland School of Craft and artist residencies with: Artist Mother Studio at Washington Project for the Arts (Washington, DC), the Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, CA) and the Torpedo Factory Art Center (Alexandria, VA). Smith is represented by Adah Rose Gallery.
2024
Night Shift, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD
Three Lines, Phillips@THEARC, Washington, DC
Longing/Belonging, Goethe-Institut, Washington, DC
2022
Art in Embassies exhibit, Geneva, Switzerland
The Alloy Project, collaboration with Sarah Irvin, Tephra ICA, Reston, VA
Forces Fleeting (two-person show with Nikki Brugnoli), Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA
2021
Eighteen Meditations (solo show), Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD
MINTED, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC
2020
A Point of Longing (solo show), GRACE at Signature, Reston, VA
2019
Of Printbearing Age, Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA
Ink It!, Black Rock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD
2018
To Bend/To Fold (solo show), Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC
Hot Hot Hot, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2017
Ulterior Perspective, Marymount University, Arlington, VA
One Year Later, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
The Language of Impressions, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA
In This Moment, two-person show, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD
Zeitgeist IV, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC
Alchemical Vessels, Joan Hisoaka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington, DC
Continuum, Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
World Table/Finding a Line: Workingman Collective, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
2016
Big Six-Ten, mural at DC Pavilion Skate Park, Washington, DC
Pathways, Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC
Making Space, Olly Olly, Fairfax, VA
Impressed, Art Gym, Denver, CO
EMULSION 2016, Gallery O on H, Washington, DC
Locale, Fenwick Gallery, Fairfax, VA
2015
Zungenbrecher!!, Northern Virginia Community College, Manassas, VA
Memory Flood, Anacostia Arts Center, Washington, DC
EMULSION 2015, Gallery O on H, Washington, DC
Excellence in Printmaking, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC
University Combine Exhibit, Capital One Corporate Art Program, Richmond, VA
2014
Ways of Going, Having Gone (MFA thesis exhibit), George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Trace, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA
In 24 hours, everywhere the dawn rises again, Fenwick Gallery, Fairfax, VA
Exchanged III, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Mount Rainier, MD
Bibliography
2022 “Conversation with Lou Stovall,” Lou Stovall: On Inventions and Color, The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC
Residencies & Scholarships
2023 CARD Fellowship, Washington, DC
2018 Residency, Artist/Mother Studio, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
2017 Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2016 Residency, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
2014 Scholarship, Woodworking, Penland School of Crafts, Bakersville, NC
Printmaking
2022-2023 Screenprint Associate, Pyramid Atlantic, Hyattsville, MD
2017 Master Printmaker, Navigation Press, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2010-2016 Studio Assistant to Master Printmaker Lou Stovall, Washington, DC
Curation
2021
Ephemeral Systems, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD
2016
Making Space, co-curator, Olly Olly, Fairfax, VA
Call and Response, co-curator, Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2015
Lineage, co-curator, Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Verbal/Visual: Texts and Influences Behind Mason’s MFA Artists, Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Artists’ Maps, Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Teaching
2021
Adjunct Professor of Drawing, Northern Virginia Community College, Loudon, VA
2015-2020
Teaching Artist, National Gallery of Art,Washington, DC
Classes: Washington Color School, Rachel Whiteread, Matisse’s Cut-Outs, Calder’s Mobiles, Hudson River Painters, Contemporary Sculpture, Degas’ Wax Sculptures
2016
Adjunct Professor, School of Art, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (2016)
2015
Graduate Lecturer, School of Art, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (2015)
Collections
University of Maryland Global Campus
Art in Embassies
INOVA Hospital
U.S. State Department
Kala Art Institute
Capital One
Education
2015 MFA in Printmaking, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2013/14 Penland School of Crafts, Bakersville, NC (woodworking, non-degree)
2007 BA in Studio Art with honors, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Press
Jenkins, Mark. “Artists Bring Light Out of the Darkness of Night,” The Washington, Post. April 1, 2022.
Jenkins, Mark. “Works of art emerge via waking up with a word in mind”, The Washington Post, May 21, 2021.
Jenkins, Mark. “Printmakers Works are Anything But Two-Dimensional,” The Washington Post. March 22, 2019.
Capps, Kriston. “These Artists are Staging a Radical Act of Motherhood.” Washington City Paper. November 16, 2018.
Lefrak, Mikaela. “At This Studio Space For Artists, Every Day Is Take Your Kid To Work Day,” WAMU, November 15, 2018.
Jenkins, Mark. “Metaphrase and Ulterior Perspective,” The Washington Post. November 22, 2017.
Jenkins, Mark. "Powerful messages that require few words," The Washington Post. May 25, 2017.
Jenkins, Mark. "Lines are clearly drawn...," The Washington Post. August 13, 2016.
Jay Hendrick. “Pathways reviewed: A Line’s Certitude,” East City Art, July 6, 2016.
Jacobson, Louis. “At Carroll Square Gallery, Big Thoughts from a Small Exhibit,” Washington City Paper. July 5, 2016.
Jenkins, Mark. “Heading Home,” The Washington Post. September 19, 2015.