Hands-on with Poetic Drawing
with Anne C. Smith
In conjunction with the exhibition Three Lines, join us for a hands-on workshop led by 2023 CARD Fellow Anne C. Smith where participants are invited to envision a familiar place—one that you know like the back of your hand. Through an imaginative exploration, the artist will guide us as we move through and consider the structure and details of the memorized place to create an image from the direct focus of thinking to drawing. The drawing process will be supported by the sounds and feelings invoked from poems that have inspired the artist.
No experience necessary. All materials provided.
IMAGE: Anne C. Smith, Ways of Going, Having Gone IV, 2014, Graphite and conté crayon on handmade paper, 46 12 x 78 in., Courtesy of the artist
About Anne C. Smith
Anne C. Smith is a visual artist in Washington, DC, working primarily in drawing and screenprinting. She uses abstraction and observations of her environment to consider how places are held in the imagination and offer a roadmap for being. Smith learned silkscreen printmaking from her mentor, Master Printmaker Lou Stovall, for whom she was a studio assistant beginning in 2010. She interviewed Stovall for the catalogue to his 2022 exhibition at the Kreeger Museum, curated by Danielle O’Steen. Smith is a 2015 graduate of George Mason University, holding an MFA in Printmaking while also studying drawing and sculpture there. She has taught drawing at GMU, the National Gallery of Art, and Northern Virginia Community College, and screenprinting at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, where she was a Silkscreen Associate from 2022-23. Her practice has been informed by woodworking techniques learned at the Penland School of Crafts and listening to poetry. Smith has participated in residencies with Artist Mother Studio at the Washington Project for the Arts, Kala Art Institute, and Torpedo Factory Art Center. Her work is in the collections of the US State Department, Capital One, INOVA Hospital, and University of Maryland Global Campus. She is represented by Adah Rose Gallery in Kensington, MD.
