Ann Kalmbach

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Ann Kalmbach
Born1950 (1950)
Rochester, New York
NationalityAmerican
EducationRochester Institute of Technology, State University of New York at New Paltz
Known forprintmaker, book artist
PartnerTatana Kellner

Ann Kalmbach (b. 1950) is an American artist and co-founder of the Women's Studio Workshop.

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Biography

Kalmbach was born in 1950 in Rochester, New York. [1] [2] She studied at the State University of New York at New Paltz and the Rochester Institute of Technology. [3] In 1974 she co-founded the Women's Studio Workshop (WSW) in Rosendale, New York along with fellow artists Barbara Leoff Burge, Tatana Kellner, and Anita Wetzel. [4]

She frequently collaborates with her life partner Tatana Kellner [5] as Kakeart. In 2017 their collaborative book The Golden Rule, was a Special Merit Honoree at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts MCBA Prize. [6]

Her work is in the collection of the Bridwell Art Library at the University of Louisville, [7] the MassArt Library, [8] the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, [1] the University of Michigan Library, [9] the Walker Art Center, [10] and the library of National Museum of Women in the Arts. [11]

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