Ann Kalmbach

Ann Kalmbach is an American artist and co-founder of the Women's Studio Workshop.

Biography

Kalmbach was born in 1950 in Rochester, New York. She studied at the State [University of New York at New Paltz] and the Rochester Institute of Technology. In 1974 she co-founded the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York along with fellow artists Barbara Leoff Burge, Tatana Kellner, and Anita Wetzel.
She frequently collaborates with her life partner Tatana Kellner as Kakeart. In 2017 their collaborative book The Golden Rule, was a Special Merit Honoree at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts MCBA Prize.
Her work is in the collection of the Bridwell Art Library at the University of Louisville, the Massachusetts [College of Art and Design|MassArt] Library, the Memphis [Brooks Museum of Art], the University of Michigan Library, the Walker Art Center, and the library of National Museum of Women in the Arts.