Biography
Anne is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL where they teach weaving, fabric design, and sculpture courses. Anne received their MFA in Fiber/Textiles at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS in May 2024. In May 2020, they completed a graduate certificate concentrated in hand papermaking at University of Iowa Center for the Book in Iowa City, IA. They graduated in Spring 2019 with a BA in Studio Art and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies from Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA.
In their current work, they consider the excess of usable clothing being produced due to global capitalism alongside the rigid gender and class norms that clothing embodies. They salvage donated secondhand clothes that are unlikely to find a new wearer, whether because they are worn out, defective, or are simply an unpopular style. Drawing on the generally unremarkable forms of everyday clothes and garment racks, they transform these unwanted clothes into artworks that create unexpected connections between different parts of the lifecycle of a garment, and between different articles of clothing. To make these works, they use traditional American craft practices used historically to repurpose old clothing such as quilting, rag rug making, and hand papermaking.
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EDUCATION
2021-2024
MFA in Fiber/Textiles with honors, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2019-2020
Graduate Certificate in Book Arts, University of Iowa Center for the Book, Iowa City, IA
2015-2019
BA in Studio Art with honors and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies with honors, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Fiber Flux: Midwest Educators in Textiles, Fiber Art, and Material Studies, Valade Family Gallery, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
The Art of Craftsmanship, Peters Valley Gallery, Layton, NJ
Interns Invitational Exhibit, 2024 Convergence conference, Wichita, KS
Master Pieces, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Interplay: Surface Design Association Student Exhibition, Dairy Barn Arts Center’s O’Bleness Gallery, Athens, OH
sh’bang fest, Hildebrandt Artist Collective, Cleveland, OH
Solo Exhibition, softline, Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery, Lawrence, KS
Never Ending Cycles: A Laundromat Soap Opera, E11even2 Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2023
Then and Now, Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery, Lawrence, KS
Togethering, Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2022
Garment Surveying, Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery Cases, Lawrence, KS
Walking in a Straight Line, Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery Cases, Lawrence, KS
Wildfire, Jungle Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2021
Public Art Commission, Backyard Bash: Understories, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Solo Exhibition, Leaving Pants on the Floor, LGBTQ Iowa Archives and Library, Iowa City, IA
2020
Home and Auto, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA (canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
Body Building: The Art of the Human Figure, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
2019
2019 Chautauqua School of Art Students and Emerging Artists Exhibition, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
Bachelor of Arts Exhibition, Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA (juror: Verónica Casado Hernandez)
Fiber as Metaphor, Gallery Fritz, Santa Fe, NM
Seventh Annual Juried Exhibition, Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH (jurors: Karl Anderson & Andrea Gyorody)
GRANTS + AWARDS
2024
School of the Arts Research Grant, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2023
Summer Research Award, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Dorris Carrey Scholarship, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Office of Graduate Studies Summer Research Scholarship, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Graduate Scholarly Development Fund Scholarship, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2022
School of the Arts Travel Award, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Daniel Mac Morris Award, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Partial Scholarship for Recording Surfaces Summer Workshop, Penland School of Craft, Bakersfield, NC
2019
Outstanding Fourth Year Portfolio Award, Grinnell College Studio Art Department, Grinnell, IA
Tammy Zywicki Memorial Prize for Photography for Twelve (2 Sets of Six), Bachelor of Arts Exhibition, Grinnell, IA (juror: Verónica Casado Hernandez)
Louis Glenn Zirkle Memorial Prize for Sculpture for Earplugs (collaboration with Martin Chamberlin), Bachelor of Arts Exhibition, Grinnell, IA (juror: Verónica Casado Hernandez)
Award for Excellence for Clothed System, Seventh Annual Juried Exhibition, Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
2024
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL (August 2024-May 2025)
Instructor of Record, ART 133: Fundamentals of Fiber, University of Kansas Department of Visual Art, Lawrence, KS (August 2022-May 2024)
2023
Instructor, Functional Mending workshop, Lawrence Arts Center (Taught two-session mending course to adult students)
2022
Facilitator, Show and Tell: Visible Mending Workshops, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS (led three mending sessions for community members, connecting our work in the sessions to other artists using mending)
RESIDENCY + OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2024
Faculty in Residence, Augustana College Residential Life and Augustana Leaders in Vocational Exploration, Rock Island, IL
Intern, 2024 Convergence conference, Handweavers Guild of America, Wichita, KS
Juror, USD 497 Public Schools 2024 Art Exhibition, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
President, KU Textiles Club, Lawrence, KS, University of Kansas Department of Visual Art (January 2023-May 2024), (Organized and facilitated monthly educational textiles workshops open to all University of Kansas Students with other Textiles Club leaders)
2023
Artist Panelist, Togethering opening, Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery, Lawrence, KS (moderators: Joey Orr & David Cateforis)
Juror, USD 497 Public Schools 2023 Art Exhibition, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
2022
Workshop Attendee, Recording Surfaces with Delaney Smith, Penland School of Craft, Bakersville, NC (August)
Student Gardener, natural dye garden at KU Native and Medicinal Plant Garden, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (May-September)
Juror, USD 497 Public Schools 2022 Art Exhibition, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
2021
Vice President, Graduate Arts Association, University of Kansas Department of Visual Art, Lawrence, KS (August 2021-February 2022)
Costume Designer, Make Thee An Ark directed by Raychel Ceciro, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, FL (October)
2020
Flood Recovery Student Specialist, University of Iowa Libraries Conservation Lab, Iowa City, IA (August 2019-January 2020)
2019
Summer Residency Program, Chautauqua School of Visual Art, Chautauqua, NY (June-August)
Artist Talk, Chautauqua School of Art Artist Presentations, Hultquist Center, Chautauqua, NY
Exhibition design and curation, Bachelor of Arts Exhibition, Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021
“New art gallery explores themes of ritual and repetition,” The Daily Iowan
https://dailyiowan.com/2021/02/03/new-art-gallery-explores-themes-of-ritual-and-repetition/
“The Material Life Cycles of Anne S. Rogers,” Lydia James
https://www.lydiajamesart.com/blog/2021/1/27/anne-rogers
2019
Fiber as Metaphor Exhibition Catalog, Santa Fe, NM
“Papering over Everything: The Seventh National Juried Exhibition at the Morgan Conservatory,” Collective Arts Network Journal
2019 Bachelor of Arts Exhibition Catalog, Grinnell, IA
The Grinnell Review, Grinnell, IA
