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
 


RESIDENCIES
2020         Inaugural Artist in Residence, Carbon Upcycling Technologies/Expedition Air, Canada
​2015          Entre, Guatemala City, Guatemala                                      
2007         Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute, Jingdezhen, China  


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS    
2021-22    
Our Future Planet, Science Museum, London
2020-21    Captured Carbon Studio display, Alberta Carbon Conversion Technology Centre, Canada 
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         

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PRESS
Nicola K. Smith, What is solarpunk and can it help save the planet?, BBC News, August 2021

Robin McKie,
 Vodka, toothpaste, yoga mats … the new technology making items out of thin air: An exhibition at London’s Science Museum shows how far carbon capture research has come, The Guardian, April 18, 2021

Andrew Bell, Creating products, art out of CO2 ‘huge step forward in climate mitigation’: Expedition Air lead, BNN Bloomberg, April 9, 2021

Kevin Fleming, Residency program aims to turn captured carbon materials into art, CTV News, April 6, 2021

Using captured carbon to make art—w/ Annalee Levin of Captured Carbon Studio, podcast, Reversing Climate Change: Season 2 Episode 52, February 23, 2021

Embroidery and Climate Change, podcast, The Embroidery Podcast: Season 1 Episode 2, February 6, 2021

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       
   

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
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021
INSTRUCTOR
Embroidery Classes, Cielo House
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2020            
SPEAKER                                                                                                                                                    
East Bay Mini Maker Faire, Virtual Town Hall Event     
                                                   
          
INSTRUCTOR
Virtual Embroidery Class, Kindling 
                                                                                                                       

2019-2020
INSTRUCTOR                                                                                                                     
Embroidery Classes, Engage as you Age  
                                        

2015-2020
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
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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