Annet Couwenberg

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INSTAGRAM: @annetcouwenberg
EMAIL: acouwenb@mica.edu
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Annet Couwenberg’s inimitable curiosity has fueled an ongoing exploration of the conversations between traditional textile production, digital technology, and emerging technologies throughout her career. From her early work in the fashion industry to sculptural forms, Smart Textiles and Wearable Technology, and her research into fish fossils and skeletons through a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship at the National Museum of Natural History, Couwenberg’s interdisciplinary practice continually crosses boundaries, connecting seemingly disparate fields and creating new realms of possibility.

Originally from The Netherlands, Annet immigrated to the United States to pursue MFA degrees at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art. Never one to be constrained by border, geography, disciplinary, or material, her work has taken her around the world, through artist residencies and exhibitions in South Korea, China, Portugal, Poland and Turkey, as well as one-person exhibitions at the Textiel Museum in The Netherlands, Baltimore Museum of Art, Zuckerman Museum of Art and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, among many others.

Trained in Textiles, Annet is a kinesthetic learner who embraces process and proudly identifies as a maker. Her curiosity has continually led her beyond the traditional boundaries of her field, moving between disciplines and merging ways of thinking and making. Her practice brings together digital technology, traditional craft, engineering, science, and art, creating a multidirectional exchange of knowledge in which materials, processes, and ideas inform one another.

For Annet, making is a way of thinking. Curiosity is both method and motivation, and the studio is a place where disciplines can collide, questions can remain open, and unexpected possibilities can emerge.

She lives with her husband, photographer Dan Meyers, in Baltimore, Maryland, and regularly travels up and down I-95 to visit her daughter, Mara Meyers, her spouse, B Bonner, and granddaughter, Naomi, in Philadelphia.