Anne Arrasmith - Curatorial Work

Curatorial Work

• Jon Coffelt was the inaugural artist at Space One Eleven when it was founded by Arrasmith and Peter Prinz, opening in 1989 in Birmingham, AL.

• "UpSouth" partially funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts was curated and organized by Arrasmith and traveled to several venues across Birmingham, AL in one day, including Space One Eleven, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the Visual Arts Gallery of University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Agnes. It showed the work of artists Emma Amos and Willie Birch and writer bell hooks, as well as Ann Benton, Priscilla Hancock Cooper, Karen Graffeo, Janice Kluge Lee Isaacs, Mary Ann Sampson, Jess Marie Walker and Marie Weaver.

• In 2000, Arrasmith curated "House and Garden: Twists on Domesticity," at Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL through a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts. The exhibition included the work of Karen Rich Beall and Jon Coffelt. This exhibition also included a catalog with a foreword by David Moos. In this exhibition, Beall exhibited realistic tableau life-size sculpture while Coffelt hand-sewed more than 250 miniature garments that were exhibited as memory sculptures.

• “Art on the Inside” a self-portrait exhibition of prisoners who are part of the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Program incorporating drawings, paintings, poems and stories. This arrangement to exhibit this work is as much educational as it is artistic, but don’t think this is simply an exercise in kindness.
  • “Every human being can express something – even in the most depressing and oppressive of environments,” says Anne Arrasmith, co-owner of Space One Eleven. She has just seen the works for the first time this week, as well. -Anne Arrasmith

• "BAMA" curated by Arrasmith in 2004, included the works of Amy Pleasant, Annie Kammerer Butrus and Jane Timberlake. The exhibition showcases three of Birmingham's most promising artists.

• "Suspended in Conflict" in 2005 was the work of three established artists that was created based on introspection and the intense questions raised by a rapidly changing Southern culture. This exhibit curated by Arrasmith, provided Darius Hill, Larry Jens Anderson, and James Emmette Neel with the opportunity to experiment and to present new works that challenge myth and reality. This exhibition was funded by a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

• "Politics, Politics: Nice Artists Explore the Political Landscape" curated by Arrasmith and Peter Prinz of Space One Eleven was funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and included Pinky Bass, Clayton Colvin, Peggy Dobbins, Randy Gachet, Binx Newton, Arthur Price, John Trobaugh, Paul Ware, and Stan Woodard. This exhibition featured the introspective works of nine artists, both established and emerging, as they explored the personal and social impact of political events and trends. Those explorations, in turn, become universal statements on the impact politics has had on environment, sports, religion, race, and government in the South.

Since 1987, Anne Arrasmith has included numerous artists' books into her exhibitions including the works of Sara Garden Armstrong, Larry Gens Anderson, Pinky Bass, Jon Coffelt, Edith Frohock, Anne Howard, Lee Isaacs, Joni Mabe, Mary Ann Sampson, David Sandlin, Joel Seah and Marie Weaver along with many others who have worked in field of book arts.