In the Peace Corps in Brazil, Annekarin Glass established a leather goods factory to give unemployed leather workers steady jobs



In the Peace Corps in Brazil, Annekarin Glass established a leather goods factory to give unemployed leather workers steady jobs

AnneKarin was born into an environment where originality and creativity were prized and rewarded.

Her father is Henry P. Glass, one of the founders of the field of industrial design and one of the most important designers in America during the 20th century. His work is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as museum and private collections in the United States and Europe. Her mother, Eleanor, is a guilded master dressmaker. AnneKarin spent most of her summer vacations during her childhood at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where her father headed the Industrial Design Department.

She continued to study and create, paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculpture during high school and college.

In the Peace Corps in Brazil, she established a leather goods factory to give unemployed leather workers steady jobs.

She was responsible for designing and making the patterns for shoes, bags, belts, jewelry and household items in leather. She also produced a body of woodcut prints. Subsequent to finishing her Master's degree at Illinois Institute of Technology, she moved to San Francisco, where she established her own company, AnneKarin Glass, Inc.

She has designed and produced architectural graphics as well as illustrations, photographs and graphic design for print and electronic media. She continues to educate her hand and eye through drawing, painting, sculpture and photography. The form of the human figure and the emotion of gesture frequently inspire her drawings and paintings.

Her sculpture expresses humor and pathos through constructions in various materials such as bicycle boxes, sheet copper, rope, vinyl, and papier mache. Her photography focuses on abstraction, the colors and textures in the natural world.

When this story was posted in October 2004, this was on the front page of PCOL:

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