b: 1931, Washington, DC. - d: 2020, Bethesda, MD.
Ann Zahn (1931- 2020)
established The Printmakers' Workshop (1975-2008) for lithography and relief printing in a studio attached to her house in Bethesda, MD attracting international artists. She taught printmaking at AU, GMU and UMD. Her recent images of plants, printed on paper made from the plants imaged were grown in her garden with the purpose of saying, "Pay attention to the natural world around us." She made many drawings revealing spontaneous reactions to landscapes, people and animals. The beach was also a favorite subject.
Born in Washington, DC, Zahn studied psychology at Duke University (BA) and took an MFA in painting at The American University where she briefly taught art classes. She also taught at the University of Maryland and George Mason University. Finding too many opportunities to change her paintings, a friend suggested that she would like the solidity of the printmaking process and she found her primary media. She studied printmaking at Montgomery College at night and soon became co-director of the Graphics Workshop in the Glen Echo Art Center. She joined the Washington Women's Arts Center and with other printmakers to found Washington Area Printmakers, the Washington Printmakers Gallery, and Creative Partners Gallery (now the Waverly Gallery) in Bethesda.
Zahn has exhibited widely. Her one-person shows include Washington Printmakers Gallery, the Studio Gallery, and a 30-year retrospective at Strathmore Hall Art Center in 2002. Her work has also been exhibited the Katzen Rotunda Gallery and the American University Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and in nine National Museum of Women in the Arts Invitational Artists Book Shows between 1987 and 2002. The Art Cart - A Legacy project helped in preliminary stages of archiving her extensive body of work.
www.annzahn-artist.com
established The Printmakers' Workshop (1975-2008) for lithography and relief printing in a studio attached to her house in Bethesda, MD attracting international artists. She taught printmaking at AU, GMU and UMD. Her recent images of plants, printed on paper made from the plants imaged were grown in her garden with the purpose of saying, "Pay attention to the natural world around us." She made many drawings revealing spontaneous reactions to landscapes, people and animals. The beach was also a favorite subject.
Born in Washington, DC, Zahn studied psychology at Duke University (BA) and took an MFA in painting at The American University where she briefly taught art classes. She also taught at the University of Maryland and George Mason University. Finding too many opportunities to change her paintings, a friend suggested that she would like the solidity of the printmaking process and she found her primary media. She studied printmaking at Montgomery College at night and soon became co-director of the Graphics Workshop in the Glen Echo Art Center. She joined the Washington Women's Arts Center and with other printmakers to found Washington Area Printmakers, the Washington Printmakers Gallery, and Creative Partners Gallery (now the Waverly Gallery) in Bethesda.
Zahn has exhibited widely. Her one-person shows include Washington Printmakers Gallery, the Studio Gallery, and a 30-year retrospective at Strathmore Hall Art Center in 2002. Her work has also been exhibited the Katzen Rotunda Gallery and the American University Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and in nine National Museum of Women in the Arts Invitational Artists Book Shows between 1987 and 2002. The Art Cart - A Legacy project helped in preliminary stages of archiving her extensive body of work.
www.annzahn-artist.com