EDUCATION

1992               Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture & Urban Design, University of Washington

1981               Bachelor of Arts, The Evergreen State College

Studies in Drawing, Painting and Etching: Gage Academy, Pratt Fine Art Center, Crown Point Press

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023               BIMA Spotlight, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, WA

2022               Fire & Ice, Wildling Museum, Solvang, CA

2021               Climacteric Confluence, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle

2020               Gathered from the Field Art Provoked by Climate Research, Kittredge Gallery, Tacoma, WA

2019               Evidence Wall, installed for “Surge” at the Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA

2018               WAIS Reliquary: 68,000 Years installed for “Long Eye” Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

2018               Glacier: Persistent Ice in Motion, solo exhibition, Bend Art Center, Bend OR

2017               WAIS Reliquary: 68,000 Years installed for “Water Line: A Creative Exchange”, Center For Visual Art, Metropolitan University of Denver, Denver, CO

2017               In Print, Surface Design Journal, Winter 2017, Vol. 40, No. 4.

2016              What Remains, installation for “In Context” invitational exhibition during Seattle Art Fair

2016              WAIS Reliquary: 68,000 Years, Nevada Museum of Art, Center for Art+Environment, Reno, NV

2015              Pigment+Paper, Bellevue College Gallery, curated by Barbara Bullock, Tacoma Art Museum

2014              Mt. Waddington Reliquary, installed for Accreted Terrane, Museum of Northwest Art, curated by David Francis, LA Conner, WA

2014              Fire & Ice, Phinney Gallery, Seattle, two-person exhibition

2013              Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art 1775-2012, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA, travelled to museums in the United States and Canada.

2013              Mt. Waddington Reliquary, installation, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle

2013              Ice Structures - New Prints, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle

2013             Human + Nature, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA.

2012             Couples, Ida Culver House, Seattle

2012              Extended Outlook, Anchor Art Space, Anacortes, WA

2011-12       Thin Ice, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID

2011-12       Ice Stories, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle

2011            Earth Matters, SAM Gallery, Seattle

2011            Forecast: Communicating Weather and Climate, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle

2010            Deep Ice, Deep Time; Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle

2010           Below Freezing, Steele Gallery, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle

2010           Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists in the Environment; Western Gallery, Bellingham, WA; Halle Ford Museum, Salem, OR; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID.

2009           Landscape Visions, The Evergreen Gallery, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

2009           Inaugural Invitational Exhibit, Goathead Press, Mighty Tieton Warehouses, Tieton, WA

2008           Land Remnants, Francine Seders Upstairs Gallery, Seattle

2007           Print Invitational, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle

2007           Print Seattle Print Arts Membership Juried Exhibition, several galleries in the Northwest

2007          Printmaking Currents 2007, National Exhibition, Pacific Northwest College of Arts, Portland, Or

2007         18th National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibit, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2018               Visiting Artist, Snow on Ice Research Project, Western Greenland Field camps

2016               Artist Residency, Playa in rural eastern Oregon

2010               4Culture Individual Artist Grant – support to create work and presentations.

2009-10         National Science Foundation Artists and Writers Program – National Competition

2006               Artist Trust Grant for Artists Projects (GAP) Award, Seattle

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Art+Environment Archives, Nevada Museum of Art

Public Utilities Portable Works Collection, City of Seattle

University of Washington, Quaternary Research Center

Group Health Cooperative, Seattle

City of Kent

Horizon House, Seattle

PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS

2021               “Artists chronicle climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic”, Pope, Kristen, Yale Climate Connections, May 12, 2021

2018               Art Talk, Bend Arts Center, Bend, OR.

2018               Arts/Science presentation with Mark Twickler, University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H.

2017               “Grim Forecast”, M. Paglia, Westword Weekly, September 13, 2017.

2017               “Water Line art attraction bridges the divides of the planet’s water issues”, R.M.Rinaldi, The Know-Denver Post Online, Oct 13, 2017

2017               Arts/Science Presentation with James White, University of Colorado, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO

2017               “In Print”, ed. M. McDade, Surface Design Journal, Winter 2017, Vol. 40, No. 4.

2016               “Art Bite”, presentation with scientist Kendrick Taylor, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

2016               “Art+Sci: Ice and Climate Change”, panel presentation, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

2015               “Surge” at Museum of Northwest Art, temporary installation and panelist.

2015               “Vanishing Ice: Art as a Tool for Documenting Climate Change”, Kothe, E. L.; Maute , M. J.; Brewer, C.; Art Education, March 2015.

2014               “Accreted Terrane, An Artist’s Amusement Park”, S. Hunter, Cascadia Weekly, Oct 22, 2014.

2014               Artist Talk Series, Olympia Timberline Library, with Geologist, Bradley Markle, Olympia, WA

2014               “Art, Science, Eco-concerns Meet in “Vanishing Ice” Exhibit,” Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times, January 19th

2013               Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art, 1775 – 2012. Matilsky, Barbara C., Whatcom Museum, 2013.

2013               Vanishing Ice Speaker Series, with UW Professor of Glaciology, Eric Steig, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA

2012               Artist Talk, with scientist Peter Neff, Sun Valley Art Center, Ketchum, ID

2011-12        Art and educational exhibit, Polar Science Weekend, Seattle Science Center, Seattle

2011               “Anna McKee Makes Art about Ice” Interview with Marcie Sillman, November 8, 2011, KUOW radio

2010-13         Guest Presentation, WAIS Divide Ice Core Project Conference, Scripps Seaside Forum, La Jolla, CA

2010               Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment. ed. Clark-Langager, Sarah & Deitrich, William, Halle Ford Museum of Art and Western Gallery, 2010

2010               Frozen Stories, Guest Lecture Series, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle

2010               Deep in The West Antarctic Ice Sheet: An Art and Science Presentation, with scientist Eric Steig, Seattle Public Library

2010               “Phinney Resident Captures Antarctica in Art”, Phinney Ridge Review, spring 2010

2010               In Studio Artist, ArtZone with Nancy Guppy (regional art TV series), episode November 5, 2010

2007               “You Want Art”, The Stranger, SLOG, Jen Graves, July 13, 2007

2007               “Printmaking Conversation” Panelist, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle