Discipline: Visual Art

Anne Healy

Discipline: Visual Art
MacDowell Fellowships: 1980

Anne Healy is an American artist who was a founding member of AIR Gallery. She worked as a professor at the University of California Berkeley and has work in the permanent collection of several museums, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In addition to being a founding member of AIR Gallery, she was a panel moderator and curator of several exhibits. From 1981- 2003, she was professor at the University of California Berkeley, 1989-1996 president and member of the San Francisco Arts Commission. In 1995, she served as a delegate to the United Nations 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing. In 1997, she curated an exhibition of Five Chinese women artists at UC Berkeley, Worth Ryder Art Gallery. Some of her works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York; the Allen Art Museum in Oberlin, Ohio; the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Portrait courtesy of Heresies Film Project

Studios

Eastman

Anne Healy worked in the Eastman studio.

Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…

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