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ANA ENGLAND
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About the Artist Ana England, who was born in Middlesboro, KY in 1953, holds an undergraduate degree in Public Policy from New College, Sarasota, FL (1975) and was an art major at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA from 1979-81. in 1983, she received a MA in Ceramics from San Jose State University, San Jose, CA and a MFA in Sculpture from San Jose in 1984. Her past experience has included arts administration positions at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, the San Jose Open Studios program and a studio assistantship with sculptor David Middlebrook in Los Gatos, CA. From 1980 to 1986 she participated in numerous exhibitions on the west coast before moving to Kentucky in 1986 to take a position at Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY where she is now a Professor of Art. Her work has been widely reviewed in regional and national newspapers and magazines, such as New Art Examiner, Ceramics and Sculpture. She is the recipient of a Professional Development Grant from the Ohio Arts Council and a grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Several travel awards and research fellowships have taken her to Italy, Mexico, Guatemala and the Far East. In 1995 she presented An Artist Encounters Science at the Einstein Meets Magritte Conference in Brussels, Belgium. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Jewish Hospital Heart and Lung Center, Louisville, KY; Antic Publishing, San Francisco, CA; Natural Science Center at Northern Kentucky University; and most recently, the Cincinnati Art Museum. Artist's Statement In 1998, my husband and I purchased thirty-eight acres of forest in Clermont County, Ohio. What I saw, at first, were trees which gave me shade, color and a place of refuge from my active city life. I became interested in learning to differentiate the trees and flowers into specific species. Gradually, I gained awareness of the intricate web of relationships among the insects, animals and plants. I became conscious of the forest as a living system of interdependent beings. As the developers close in around us, I understand that this forest system is not separate from the neighborhood, the country, or the planet. I also once thought of myself as an independent system. But now, in brief moments of clarity, I know myself as the symbiosis of microorganisms, the carrier of genetic material, the synthesizer of knowledge. Self-conscious but not self separate, I carry the chemistry of stars, the saltiness of oceans and the bones of my ancestors.
Ana England, 2003
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