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EDUCATION
• Ongoing: Advanced Printmaking Studio, South Shore Art Center
• 2001 Independent Study, Sculpture, Mass College of Art, G. Greenamyer
• 1998 Independent Study, Wood Joinery, Mass College of Art, Ellen Gibson
• 1997 Massachusetts College of Art, BFA with Distinction. Major, Painting. Minor, Sculpture
• 1969 Boston University. Advanced Graduate Study. Major, ESL Education
• 1949 Columbia University, MA. Major, Hispanic Studies
• 1947 Vassar College, BA with Honors.
• On-going: Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement
RELATED VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
• Monotype Guild of New England, board member
• South Shore Art Center; ten-year board member; Committees: Gallery Exhibition, Long-Range Planning, Education, Board of Advisors, Festival, Docents
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
• 2008, Andover Newton Theological School, War, Madness and Delusion juried exhibit
• 2007, 80th Birthday Retrospective, James Library, Norwell MA
• 2007, solo show, Hingham Public Library, Political Satire
• 2004 Wheaton College Beard Gallery "Social Issues"; juror Anne H. Murray
Fuller Museum of Art Juried Members' Show; juror Carol Anne Meehan, ICA
• 2003 South Shore Art Center Festival: Third Prize, Printmaking. Jurors: O'Hanian, Burco, Marshall
• 2002 North River Arts Society & North Community Church: Issues of Social Justice
Print Alliance Memorial Portfolio, currently traveling exhibition
Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, "A Printmaker's Primer"
• 1998 "Dualities", solo show, Hingham Public Library
• 1997 Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, "A Celebration of Life"
South Suburban Oncology Center, "Oncology Suite", An Artist Copes With Cancer
• 1995 South Shore Art Center, All New England Show. First Place, painting. Jurors: Alper, Moore, Nicoll
Artist's Statement
Artists have been called "the antennae of the race." I express my political viewpoints in printmaking and collage. As an artist and a concerned global citizen, I have become aware of my sense of powerlessness in face of political decisions made by the powerful, indifferent to the human global consequences of those decisions. The World Trade Center disaster, for example, occupied my thoughts to such a powerful degree, for an entire year, that I felt compelled to create a large collage/mixed mediums piece after that event.
The Iraq war compelled the other statements presented here. These works are my response to government actions which have had equally tragic consequences in Iraq, Afghanistan and America, where thousands of loved ones have lost their lives or been horribly maimed. They all have mothers.
Our children and grandchildren will suffer the consequences for generations to come.
Anita Franks
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