ANNE RUDDER- Barbados
“I recall ‘winning’ art competitions during my early years of primary school in Englewood, New Jersey. My Barbadian family and relatives were all very creative. On scholarship, I graduated from New York Phoenix School of Design with a major in Advertising Art. Post college jobs culminated as Assistant Fashion Co-Ordinator for Sterns’ Bros. Department Store, 42nd St. between 5th & 6th Aves. NYC. In San Francisco,1969 - 84, I free lanced in music and art productions including the Bill Graham organization, earning my Santana Abraxas album “Continuity” credit . Thereafter I designed applique banners for the Renaissance Pleasure Faire Group. Subsequent private clientele commissioned their armorial achievements: including San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral and the Royal British Legion, London UK. In 1986 I joined the Commonwealth Institute “Caribbean Focus” project, sponsored by the Borough of Hackney. Six British/Caribbean applicants were taught how to sew & craft the “Heraldry of the Commonwealth Caribbean” banner exhibition. Purchased in 1989, it is part of the Barbados Parliament Art Collection. During my art sojourn in “Bimshire”, I have shown in local and international exhibitions. My commissioned clients are personal, corporate, scholastic and religious organizations. For CaFA Fair 2024, I offer a social-history themed artwork entitled “SACRED RITES, GLORIOUS HARVESTS, OUR ICHIROUGANAIM”. It is a mixed media, acrylic, fusion artwork rendered on Barbados Blackbelly Sheepskin. Although written narratives by the original Lokono-Arawak inhabitants are rare, I’ve created a visual dialogue of documented awareness about food, customs and religions of ‘Those who survived before We arrived’ during centuries of Caribbean exploitation.
SACRED RITES
“I recall ‘winning’ art competitions during my early years of primary school in Englewood, New Jersey. My Barbadian family and relatives were all very creative. On scholarship, I graduated from New York Phoenix School of Design with a major in Advertising Art. Post college jobs culminated as Assistant Fashion Co-Ordinator for Sterns’ Bros. Department Store, 42nd St. between 5th & 6th Aves. NYC. In San Francisco,1969 - 84, I free lanced in music and art productions including the Bill Graham organization, earning my Santana Abraxas album “Continuity” credit . Thereafter I designed applique banners for the Renaissance Pleasure Faire Group. Subsequent private clientele commissioned their armorial achievements: including San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral and the Royal British Legion, London UK. In 1986 I joined the Commonwealth Institute “Caribbean Focus” project, sponsored by the Borough of Hackney. Six British/Caribbean applicants were taught how to sew & craft the “Heraldry of the Commonwealth Caribbean” banner exhibition. Purchased in 1989, it is part of the Barbados Parliament Art Collection. During my art sojourn in “Bimshire”, I have shown in local and international exhibitions. My commissioned clients are personal, corporate, scholastic and religious organizations. For CaFA Fair 2024, I offer a social-history themed artwork entitled “SACRED RITES, GLORIOUS HARVESTS, OUR ICHIROUGANAIM”. It is a mixed media, acrylic, fusion artwork rendered on Barbados Blackbelly Sheepskin. Although written narratives by the original Lokono-Arawak inhabitants are rare, I’ve created a visual dialogue of documented awareness about food, customs and religions of ‘Those who survived before We arrived’ during centuries of Caribbean exploitation.