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ANNE GREENWOOD TO EXHIBIT “WINTER COUNT: A 40-YEAR CALENDAR

Presented by NDSU Memorial Union Gallery at NDSU Memorial Union

October 6-October 30, 2010

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ANNE GREENWOOD TO EXHIBIT “WINTER COUNT: A 40-YEAR CALENDAR

OF EVENTS”



Fargo, N.D. - Jamestown native Anne Greenwood will exhibit her show titled “Winter Count: A 40-Year Calendar of Events” starting Oct. 6, at the North Dakota State University Memorial Union Art Gallery.



Greenwood’s autobiographical embroidery and portfolio of prints will be up through Oct. 30. A Reception Date has not yet been decided.



Winter Counts were historic calendars used by the Plains Indians to record time pictographically. Greenwood’s exhibit is an artist’s interpretation of the Sioux tradition to record a personal history using hand-stitched embroidery and letterpress printing.



“I stitched an image from each year of my life to create this personal history,” Greenwood said. “I began this project to mend my postpartum struggles after my second daughter was born.”



The embroideries in the print portfolio are printed from hand-processed photopolymer

plates on a Vandercook Universal III by Inge Bruggeman at Textura Letterpress Printing

(Portland, Oregon). By scanning the pieces of fabric, a unique translation of each

embroidery was made into print form. Each image is printed in an edition of thirty copies

and each image is printed in a different color, matching the thread in the original sewn

imagery.

“The history and tradition of women and handwork entered my life as a strange but intuitive connection - bridging a gap I was previously unable to

Fill,” Greenwood said. “Through handwork I was able to create a personal narrative that has joined my life as an artist to that as a mother. My mother taught me to stitch as a child as her mother taught her.”



Greenwood graduated from Jamestown High School and went on to attend Moorhead State University, the University of Oregon in Eugene and the Glasgow School of art, graduating in 1990.

In 2006 Greenwood began an autobiographical project called Winter Count. Upon finishing this large embroidery installation, Anne received a 2008 Individual Project Grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council. Since that time she has also received a Professional Development Grant from RACC and a Career Development Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission.



Greenwood was also an artist in residency at Cedar Crest College in Allentown,

Pennsylvania where she made a small book called Blue Fields of Wheat.



Greenwood currently lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband Mauricio Rioseco and their two girls Eva and Lucia.