Visual Educator, Curator, and Writer

Anne is adept at creating rich cross-disciplinary learning communities of inquiry, team building, and influence. As an educator who works with a range of visual learners from elementary school children to graduate students, she fosters trust in the poetic imagination and in discovering a personal vocabulary and an authentic voice. Her approach is generative and engaging. Students write together, open up, ‘stretch out’ in reflection, and dynamically gather in exchange.

As a curator and writer who has visited many studios, she is finely tuned to look, listen, and respond to visual work and ideas and is known for her ability to inspire sensitive reflection and positive creative direction.

RISD Thesis Mentorship

Writing a thesis is a shared commitment across all graduate departments at RISD. A longstanding champion of the graduate written thesis, Anne offers a soft landing for graduate students who must conceptualize and write a Master’s thesis. Whether in her seminars, or in one-to-one meetings in the Center of Arts & Language, she uses a process of appreciative inquiry to draw out, clarify, and nurture the root of the work, locate and build ideas, develop a voice, and give meaningful form to the thesis document.

Supporting the Imaginative Lives of Children

Nurturing joy, creativity, and confidence-building through visual expression is the overarching commitment of Anne’s work with children. She creates dynamic learning environments that support the natural expressiveness of children, so they see that they are artists in their own right. She empowers children to be brave with their ideas, to trust themselves, to enjoy what their imaginations yield, and to find tremendous pleasure in the act of making.

Creative Ecology

Anne’s work is grounded in reflective thought, embodied practice, and the sharpening of intimate awareness. She supports closely observed experience, intuitive ways of knowing, and in building on emotional and spiritual knowledge. An invested listener, whose life practice involves slowing down as a means to cultivate presence in relation to the lifeworld, she is known for her refined ability to work with other creative kindred spirits in intentional space.