Anne Bouie
Anne Bouie was born in Birmingham, AL. She grew up in Atlanta, GA, and was deeply affected by the beauty and culture she experienced during summers on her grandparents’ farm in Florida. Her family lived in six states and she had attended seven schools by the fifth grade before settling in Riverside, CA, where she grew up and eventually graduated from the University of California. She earned a Ph.D. in Administration and Policy Analysis, a Master’s degree in Secondary Education, and a Master’s degree in African-American History at Stanford University.
Though highly trained in education and history, Anne Bouie is an artist in the naïve tradition and draws heavily upon pre-conversion indigenous cultures, which use art to heal, teach and sustain meaning. The traditions of southern folk artists are also a source of inspiration. Her pivotal moment as an artist came while attending a meeting of the Black Artists of DC. In 2006 her work was accepted into Found, an exhibit sponsored by BADC and she has been working as an artist since then. As a mixed media assemblage artist, Bouie has exhibited at the Honfluer Gallery, Galarie Myrtis, the Nevin Kelly Gallery, Millennium Salon, and the DC Arts Center. She has also participated in exhibits in California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and India. She is a member of the Black Artists of DC, the Millennium Arts Salon, Washington DC Friends of Brandywine, the Women’s Caucus for the Arts, the Honfluer Gallery, the Washington Arts Project, and the Pen and Brush Gallery in New York.
