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Aerial view of the Ground Cover project - 300 blankets covering 116' x 50' in downtown Phoenix, AZ
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Ann in the Violet Protest exhibit at Phoenix Art Museum, working on "Voluntary Protective Action"
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The ReThanks project installed - over 3,100 flowers with thank-you notes for workers at the dump
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Ann Morton is a fiber artist, educator and social practitioner living in Phoenix, Arizona.
Ann's work exploits traditional fiber techniques as conceptual tools for aesthetic, social communication to examine a society of which we are all a part — as bystanders, participants, victims and perpetrators.
Driven by a desire to make right, the work she does reflects her own handwork, but also orchestrates handwork of interested community members through public interventions that seek to socially engage the hands of many to harness the power of making for social purpose.
Check out other public interventions organized by Ann:
Ground Cover
Morton's 2013 public art project Ground Cover brought together over 600 volunteers across the US who made 300 blankets. Together, these blankets created a 50 x 116 foot image of desert flowers over a vacant lot in downtown Phoenix. Each blanket was then given to someone experiencing homelessness. This project was recognized with several awards including the Americans for the Arts, 2014 Public Art in Review, and inclusion in the National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Placemaking: An Action Oriented Guide to Arts in Community Development, ppg 190-192
ReThanks
In 2017, Morton orchestrated a community project that built awareness of the City of Phoenix's generation of recyclable trash through an invitation to participants to make and offer their gratitude to the workers at 27th Ave. – who touch and sort through this trash each day. Thousands of participating makers crafted individual gestures of gratitude in the form of over 3100 flowers made from their own recyclable trash. The flowers were assembled as a cascading textile-like display that replicated the unending flow of recyclables we generate – but, each flower carried a note of thanks from its maker. After the installation, selected flowers were assembled into gifts and presented to each worker. This project is featured in an online article in:
American Craft, August-September 2017
To see more of Ann's work, visit: annmortonaz.com
Ann's work exploits traditional fiber techniques as conceptual tools for aesthetic, social communication to examine a society of which we are all a part — as bystanders, participants, victims and perpetrators.
Driven by a desire to make right, the work she does reflects her own handwork, but also orchestrates handwork of interested community members through public interventions that seek to socially engage the hands of many to harness the power of making for social purpose.
Check out other public interventions organized by Ann:
Ground Cover
Morton's 2013 public art project Ground Cover brought together over 600 volunteers across the US who made 300 blankets. Together, these blankets created a 50 x 116 foot image of desert flowers over a vacant lot in downtown Phoenix. Each blanket was then given to someone experiencing homelessness. This project was recognized with several awards including the Americans for the Arts, 2014 Public Art in Review, and inclusion in the National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Placemaking: An Action Oriented Guide to Arts in Community Development, ppg 190-192
ReThanks
In 2017, Morton orchestrated a community project that built awareness of the City of Phoenix's generation of recyclable trash through an invitation to participants to make and offer their gratitude to the workers at 27th Ave. – who touch and sort through this trash each day. Thousands of participating makers crafted individual gestures of gratitude in the form of over 3100 flowers made from their own recyclable trash. The flowers were assembled as a cascading textile-like display that replicated the unending flow of recyclables we generate – but, each flower carried a note of thanks from its maker. After the installation, selected flowers were assembled into gifts and presented to each worker. This project is featured in an online article in:
American Craft, August-September 2017
To see more of Ann's work, visit: annmortonaz.com