Annie Evelyn

Joy, laughter, and the unexpected are at the heart of Annie Evelyn's work. Employing a range of materials and processes, Evelyn uses furniture’s
inherent interactive qualities and relationships with the human body to create new and surprising experiences. From 2014-2017 Evelyn was a resident artist at the Penland School of Craft in North Carolina and in 2016 was awarded The John D. Mineck Furniture Fellowship. She received both her BFA and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Evelyn is currently heading up the Wood Department at Tennessee Tech University (The Appalachian Center for Craft) and she has also taught at RISD, California College of the Arts, Parsons - The New School, Haystack Mountain School, Penland School of Craft, and others. Evelyn has been working to create community throughout her artistic practice, mentoring teens, teaching art and upholstery in community and youth centers, as well as putting on arts-based events across the country. In 2019 she co-founded Crafting the Future with a dedicated group of artists from Penland School of Craft to address the glaring lack of racial and ethnic diversity in art, craft, and design.

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