Ann Carriere is an abstract artist living and working and showing in The Merrimack Valley, in a community increasingly known for nurturing art talents, the artist-friendly community of Amesbury, Massachusetts. Ann lives not far from the busy, bustling downtown area of Market Square in Amesbury.
She began showing several of her abstract pieces last year as she began her exploration of learning "how things work" in The Merrimack Valley art community. She participated in some events at the Newburyport Art Association last year, and she also joined the Arts Institute Group of the Merrimack Valley.
Additionally, she began to work with an emerging group of area artists on creating a public gallery space in Amesbury. That group is slowly coalescing into The Millyard Center for the Arts and will initially be utilizing a space donated to them by the city! The group just recently held its debut show.
Ann, who is a Journalist by training, has been interested in art from an early age.
Her studies in Journalism at Northeastern University, from which she graduated in 1987, included, in addition to the writing skills so vital to a Journalist, lots of course work in Graphic Arts and Design, especially focusing on page design and editorial decision making and, of course, art appreciation.
Her first jobs were in publishing, while she was still in college. She was allowed at these first jobs to utilize some of the first computer equipment developed for computer-aided typesetting and graphic design and office management. She also met many people who were active in the arts, in entertainment, and, particularly, in politics.
She later went on to work in Advertising Sales, where she was able to develop advertising pieces for each of her customers as part of in-house graphic design teams. Much to her surprise, advertising salespeople were, like Journalists, also "highly political animals," and she was constantly thrilled by meeting people emerging as leaders in the business community.
In addition to her interest in abstract art, Ann has always been interested in cartooning. She has recently been developing cartooning skills under the wing of her dear friend, Timothy P. Battle, who is also a member of the Arts Institute Group of the Merrimack Valley.
She has also studied photojournalism, and in the past, some of her photographs have graced the pages of several metropolitan Boston local newspapers.
Ms. Carriere is originally from the metropolitan Boston area. She grew up in Melrose, Massachusetts, where she attended school.
"I like to get out every day to see the world," Said Ann recently. "Maybe that is part of my roots in Journalism. When I was starting out, as just a local newspaper reporter, I recall always wanting to be anywhere but at the office, only because I wanted to be meeting new people, as many people as I could. I couldn't image anyone locked up at the office, vainly trying to summon people to the office by means of mystical psychic abilities. I scorned all that as laziness. I wanted to get out, to be outside, buttonholing people, getting them to tell me their stories. To me, creating art is a way of combining my love of capturing people's stories and giving them life. In a way, artistic expression is very healing for me, because in art so much is in the eye of the beholder and there is less need to delineate between the evil and the good, the true and the not so real."
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