Annalee Levin
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EDUCATION
2016          Future Tutors Programme, Royal School of Needlework, UK                      
2012          MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture                                                   
2010          Certificate in Technical Hand Embroidery, Royal School of Needlework, UK                        
2008         BA, Macalester College, Studio Art Major, Hispanic Studies Minor
                             


​PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015-Present
​EMBROIDERY CONSULTANT AND INSTRUCTOR                        
Kayu Design, design consultation and sampling, job training program—teaching new immigrant women the skill of hand monogramming at the San Francisco YMCA as part of Kayu’s initiative to provide practical training and an alternative source of income, special events—running embroidery workshops for Kayu’s clients
   

2016-2019
FOUNDING INSTRUCTOR                                          
San Francisco School of Needlework and Design (SNAD), beginner through advanced courses

2018-2019
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT                                          
San Francisco School of Needlework and Design 
                

Projects with the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco) and SNAD:     
designing a hands-on embroidery activity for the Textile Lab to accompany the exhibition Veiled Meanings and organization of stitching events including “Goldwork Embroidery Circle” and “Crafternoons”      
                     

2019
GUEST LECTURER                                              
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Studio Principals: Textile

2015-2018
INSTRUCTOR                                               
Royal School of Needlework, Certificate Courses, Day Classes, and Summer School
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2016-2018

COMMUNITY OUTREACH COORDINATOR                                       
San Francisco School of Needlework and Design 
 
​2018      

Gallery Talk, Goldwork Embroidery, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, in conjunction with the exhibition Veiled Meanings                              
INSTRUCTOR
Personalized job training programs at SNAD, organized and ran training programs for local SF businesses looking to hire hand embroiderers for product customization 
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INSTRUCTOR                                                       
Embroiderers’ Guild, St. Paul Needleworkers


2017
DESIGN CONTRIBUTOR                                                                                                                   
Book, Embroider Your Life, by Natalie Mornu


2014-2016
ASSISTANT TEXTILE CONSERVATOR                                             
Forever Embroidery Studio, San Francisco
 
2016                     

Lecture, Embroidered Portraits, Filoli, CA                                   

2015
​INSTRUCTOR AND LECTURER                                      
Forever Embroidery Studio Seminar on the Queen Mary, CA 
                                

VISITING ARTIST AND INSTRUCTOR                                  
Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Textiles and Clothing, Guatemala     
                               

2013-2014
ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR                                            
Royal School of Needlework
                           

2013
UPHOLSTERY APPRENTICE                                          
Mandan Designs, San Francisco 
                                      

2011
TEACHING ASSISTANT                                          
Mold Making and Casting with Steve Reber, School of the Art Institute of Chicago  
         

SPECIAL PROJECTS
2015-2016
Liz Harvey’s The Lost Ones, Master Embroidery Teacher during SF performances:
de Young Museum, Conceptual Craft Exhibition at Artemis Gallery, and Yerba Buena Night
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2016

Embroidery Project for Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Textiles and Clothing, Guatemala, designing embroidery kits based on pieces in the museum collection, to be sold in the museum store and also used to facilitate the teaching of embroidery classes at the museum

2015
Cornelia Parker’s Magna Carta (An Embroidery), part of the Royal School of Needlework team who helped to embroider and piece together this project


​HONORS
2015          Royal School of Needlework Clothworkers’ Award for Top Student                         
2012          Eldon Danhausen Sculpture Fellowship                                            
2008         Graduated Cum Laude with Departmental Honors, Macalester College                            
2007          Freeman Grant, collaboration with ceramicist Gary Erickson               


EXHIBITIONS    
2017          In Remembrance: People, Times, & Places, San Francisco Center for the Book                
2016          Stories in Stitch, Royal School of Needlework, UK                                    
2016          Stitched in Time: A Needlework Exhibit, Filoli, CA                              
2014          Black, White, and Colour, Cumberland Lodge, UK                              
2013          truck pillow, Ford’s Truck Plant in the Rouge Complex, Dearborn, MI                               
2012          SAIC MFA Graduate Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago                          
2012          Solo Exhibition, …to a company that made something, Gallery Uno, Chicago              
2011           Weddings/Proms/Corporate Events/Beauty Pageants/Bar Mitzvahs/Quinceañeras/, 
                  
Zhou B Art Center, Chicago   
2010          No People, Pets, or Flowers: Exploring the Sentimental, the Personal, and the Domestic
                  in Contemporary Art
, Chicago      
2010         Exhibition of Student Work, Royal School of Needlework, UK                                           
2009         Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, juried                                                        
2009         Custom Toy Contest, APW Gallery, Long Island City, NY                                           

2008         Interrobang, Macalester College Senior Art Exhibition                                              
2005-8     Annual Macalester College Student Exhibition, juried 
                                                         
          
         

RESIDENCIES
2020         Carbon Upcycling Technologies, Canada 
​2015          Entre, Guatemala City, Guatemala                                      
2007         Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute, Jingdezhen, China