Industrial Quilts by artist Anne Marie Kenny celebrates five years at Art Up Front Street

EXETER — Anne Marie Kenny, artist of Industrial Quilts, is celebrating her 5-12 months anniversary as a studio artist at Art Up Entrance Avenue Studios and Gallery in Exeter.

Kenny will be celebrating with her fellow artists at the annual “Open Studios” party May perhaps 7 and 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., just about every day the weekend of Mother’s Day. Households and youngsters are welcome to fulfill the artists in their studios and delight in light-weight bites, drinks, and audio.

Kenny claims her switch from a a single-individual studio to a collective with seven other studio artists has been an specifically useful working experience as it has impressed her and has brought her nearer to collectors obtaining her function. The a single-on-one personalized interactions and friendships she has manufactured more than the previous 5 yrs “have been profoundly fulfilling.” Much of Kenny’s prior practical experience was offering her work by way of art galleries and corporate representation. “My studio at Artwork Up Front Avenue now feels like property,” she suggests.

Kenny’s get the job done is encouraged by the Industrial Revolution, New England mill history, and the “Mill Girls” whose life dramatically modified from working on farms to working in textile mills such as the Amoskeag and Lowell Mills. The distinction involving hand-perform as opposed to device-do the job influences her aesthetics and signifies the alterations in women’s do the job and life for the duration of this time period. Some of the products Kenny utilizes have been salvaged from 1980’s and 90’s NH scrap yards. Her resources include solid-off microchips, electrical wire, circuit boards in addition to wire-cloth and digital parts.

Kenny, initially from Indiana, has been a resident in N.H. for 35 years. Her do the job has been internationally exhibited and is in the long lasting collections of the Currier Museum of Artwork, the Museum of Arts and Layout in NYC, and in corporate collections.

Kenny enjoys chatting with site visitors at Art Up Entrance Road, some of whom appear from all around the U.S. and overseas. Clients from New England and community Seacoast parts have been recurrent supporters of the exhibits and “Open Studio” functions. In addition, little ones and college students who check out find inspiration in the working studios.

Stop by www.artupfrontstreet.com or www.industrialquilts.com.

This short article at first appeared on Portsmouth Herald: Industrial Quilts marks 5 years at Art Up Entrance Road in Exeter NH