Anne Simpkins
Associate Professor of Art
Department: Art
Email: simpkins@elon.edu
Phone number: (336) 278-5721
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Education
Education
MFA -Drawing and Painting, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 1985
MA-Drawing and Painting University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 1984
BA -Art Graceland College, Lamoni, IA 1983
Employment History
Associate Professor of Fine Art- Department of Art and Art History, Elon University, Elon, NC 2004-present
Assistant Professor of Fine Art- Department of Art and Art History, Elon University, Elon, NC 1994- 2004
Chair- Elon College Department of Art 1998-2003
Coordinator of Fine Arts 1998-2003
Gallery Director 1998-2000
Manager /Curator- Elon University Art Collection 1998-2003
Fine Arts Convener- Earlham College, Richmond, IN 1992-1994
Assistant Professor of Art- Earlham College 1990-1994
Courses Taught
All levels of painting
Drawing I
Life Drawing
Fundamentals of Design
Study Abroad, Italy Fine Arts
The Human Face
Book Arts
Drawing with color
Paper making
Relief Printmaking
Leadership Positions
Chair, Study Abroad Committee 2010-11
Chair, Art Department, 1999-2003
Chair Common Reading committee 1998
Committee Service
Study Abroad 2008-2012
CATL Advisory Board
Promotion and Tenure 2006-7
Research and Development 1999-2001
Digital Search 1997, 2007
Art History Search
Art Foundations Search
Honorary Degree Committee
Distiguished Professor Committee
Distiguished Scholar Committee
Honnor board 06,07,08,09
Lyseum 1994-96
Common Reading 1997
Current Projects
Domestic Art
I have been interested in making art about domestic life for a number of years.
It is as though this element of our existence is so common we can’t bear to address it
in art without focusing on only the beautiful or sentimental. You see this in 19th and
20th century depictions of home and family. They seem to often depict soft focus
scenes of children playing on beaches. I in contrast, found myself struggling with a
child in deep water, torn between her desire for freedom and my need to keep her
safe.
As a parent of two daughters I quickly realized this is work that is not for the faint of
heart. It is not the tender scenes of mother and child. Parenting children includes
struggles of control, influence, learning, and nurture. My home is chaotic, messy and
decidedly unromantic. My paintings reference a modern world of electronic
distractions, inappropriate choices and carpool drop off.
My daughters are now pre-teens. I continue to mine this rich subject for an
unsentimental view of puberty, femininity, and the issues of growing up.
This series of paintings will continue to document my observations about the many
transitions in the life of my family.
Publications
Journal cover-Philosophy as a Transformative Practice, 2008
Book cover-Twice Dead, Yoram Lubling 2007
Global Studies Text Reissued in digital form 2005
Book cover -Kevin Boyle 2003
Global studies text Arcaro 2001
Presentations
Faculty Exhibition, Isabella Cannon room and Elon West Galleries Elon University,2011
Faculty Exhibition, Isabella Cannon room and Elon West Galleries Elon University 2008,
Faculty Exhibition, Isabella Cannon room and Elon West Galleries Elon University 2006
Solo show Triad Stage for Green Hill Center 2004
Faculty Exhibition, Isabella Cannon Room Elon University, 2004
The Winter Show, Greenhill Center for North Carolina Art Greensboro, NC 2003
Solo show , Highpoint Theater Galleries, Highpoint, NC 2003
Group show Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC
2003
Faculty Exhibition
Testifying’ 2005 Rosenthall Gallery, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC 2005
Southeastern College Art Association Members Exhibition
Jacksonville Art museum, Jacksonville, FL 2004
Members Juried Show Greensboro Artists League 2003
Members Juried Show Greensboro Artists League 2002
Members Juried Show Greensboro Artists League 2001
Art on Paper Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro,NC
Members Juried Show Greensboro Artists League 2000
Dwight Merrimon Davidson, Juried Print Exhibition, Isabella Cannon Room Elon College, Elon College, NC 1997
Professional Activities
Art Department Program Assessment North Central ICollege, Fall 2011
Awards
Technology Support Grant – summer 2009, 2010
Sabbatical, Elon University, Elon, NC 2003-2004
Summer Stipend, Elon University- 1999
Summer Artist in Residence University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1995,1996,1997
Technology Initiative Grant- 1999
Professional Development Grant- travel/study in American
southwest 1993
Professional Development Grant- travel/study in Washington DC 1992
Professional Development Grant- travel/study In Japan1991
CORE Artist in Residence, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX 1987-89
Materials grant , Iowa Arts Council 1985
Graduate Studies grant -University of Iowa, Iowa City ,IA1984-1985
Teaching Assistantship -University of Iowa 1984-1985
Departmental Award- Graceland College, Lamoni ,IA 1983