Dimensions: 10” x 7”
Price (unframed): $250
Engraving on copper, chine collé (oriental papers)
"Flag"
Dimensions: 6.75” x 6.75”
Price (unframed): $250
Engraving on copper, chine collé (oriental papers, wood veneer)
"Heartland"
Dimensions: 10” x 10”
Price (unframed): $250
Engraving on copper, soft ground, chine collé (oriental papers)
Annie Hayes
annie@anniehayesrugs.com
Annie spent her childhood in the country near Columbus, Ohio and then in the country near Buffalo, New York, the daughter of a homemaker and an anatomist. As a child, she was fortunate enough to have a continuing menagerie of animals – all pets. They included ponies and horses, a sheep, a goat, chickens, a duck, geese, a rabbit, dogs and cats, and a turtle. She wanted a cow but her parents declined her request. There was never any question about what she wanted to do with her life: she drew all the time, loved making things, and felt most comfortable in art classes at the University.
Annie attended the University of Buffalo for two and a half years, and then transferred to the University of Iowa where she studied drawing, painting, and printmaking. During a brief time away from college, she taught herself weaving. After graduating with a B.F.A., she moved to St. Paul, MN and worked at a variety of jobs, most notably as an artist-in-residence in an NEA/HEW pilot program joining senior citizens with practicing artists. It was a good lesson in naïve art making and finding solutions to the complex task of presenting one’s life in visual terms.
She lived on the Bowery in New York City for nearly fifteen years, working as an artist and as a graphic designer specializing in consulting about and producing courtroom demonstratives. During this time, she made drawings and engravings, some of which were exhibited in two of the NYU Small Works shows.
In 1992, she moved upstate with her family. Living in an old farmhouse, it seemed the historically appropriate thing to do to make one traditional hooked rug. She always assumed it would depict her Black Labrador, but it turned out to be of a rooster standing on a log, which she made and remade, tearing it all out several times as her skills and ideas improved. Her process deepened as she learned to dye wool.
In 2006 she entered a competition to be included in a respected directory of high quality traditional craftspeople – and was accepted. An acquaintance saw her work displayed in a local frame shop and spoke to an editor at the New York Times, who featured her work in the Home & Garden section on Valentine’s Day of 2008. She was accepted into the directory for a second time in 2008. These events created an opportunity for establishing a growing list of clients who frequently commission rugs from her.
In addition to the article in the NY Times, Annie’s work has been featured in periodicals such as Old-House Interiors, Early Homes, and Early American Life.
Annie realizes the potential that making rugs has for personal expression and teaches rug making to students on both a local and national level. Her main focus when teaching is to give her students the tools – technical and aesthetic – to create rugs using their own images.
Presently Annie is working on incorporating Shaker textile techniques into her work.
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