Abigail Woods Anderson is a Minneapolis-based artist and educator. She received her BA from St. Olaf College in 1999, where she studied fine art and biology. Anderson is an instructor and member of the artist cooperative at Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Goals on her horizon include editioning an artist book about water bears and authoring a paragraph on letterpress for Wikipedia’s printmaking article.

2012

• Art on the Plains XI, group exhibition at Plains Art Museum, January 28–May 20

2011

• Old Friends, New Talent, group exhibition at Groveland Gallery, August 11–27
• 1X1, group exhibition at Groveland Gallery, June 4–14
• What Follows What Came Before, group exhibition at MCBA, March 25–May 6
• Parts of a Whole: New Work by the MCBA Artist Community, group exhibition February 11–April 24

2010

• +1: Print Invitational, group exhibition at Groveland Gallery, September 10–October 16

2009

• Front, Back & Between: New Work by the MCBA Artist Cooperative, group exhibition, January 23–March 8

2008

• Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition (placed second in Watercolor Category for Strange Loop)

2007

• Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition (Drawing Category)
• Food for Thought, group exhibition at Homewood Studios, April 27–May 19

2006

• Art On the Plains IX, group exhibition at Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND, September 28, 2006–January 7, 2007

2004

• Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition (Drawing Category)

2002

• Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition (Drawing Category)

2001

• Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition (placed fourth in Drawing Category)

ArtsConnectEd

• Member of Museum Education Committee

BirdXBird

• Exhibiting artist, BirdXBird Vi, VII, and VIII

Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA)

• Instructor
• Member of the Artist Cooperative
• Collectors Forum, Charter Member

• Apprentice for Winter Book program, working with master printer Paulette Myers-Rich (2008)
• Volunteer assistant to the studio technician (2008–09)

Walker Art Center

• Staff member, education and community programs
• Contributing participant to Open Field and Field Office
• Volunteer Tour Guide since 2010

I have helped to develop art education content for ArtsConnectEd. Here are some resources I have either contributed to or authored:

• Abigail Woods Anderson: Artist Voice / Artist Choice
• Art Today and Tomorrow
• Asking Art: Giving Thanks
• Event Horizon: A Study Set
• Sky Pesher, 2005 by James Turrell
• Spoonbridge and Cherry: The Story of a Public Sculpture

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