Anne Mondro

Anne Mondro is an American mixed media and sculpture artist and currently serves on the board of directors for Society of North American Goldsmiths.


Anne Mondro is currently an assistant professor at the University of Michigan and has been teaching there since 2005. She shows her work in group and solo exhibitions and participates in artist workshops, lectures and the creation of public art. The Dragon of Wishes, Hopes and Dreams, which won her a Golden Paintbrush award by the Ann Arbor Commission in 2005, is a project done for and with the help of the hospital communtiy .

Some of her more notable work has involved issues of health and the body, as explored in her Sarcinae de Corpus series. This series was displayed at the International Museum of Surgical Science in 2004. Her work discussed illness represented by forms derived from body parts, displayed in luggage and containers. Another body exploration was done with figures made from mesh, silhouettes of a rough human forms that interact with one another.

She has been featured on Why Project?, an exhibition and also a television piece aired on Michigan Television and the Michigan Channel. In her portion of the video, she is asked “why make art?” Anne discusses her speech impediment as a child and the way art enabled her to communicate when she felt she was limited verbally.

Education

2002 MFA Jewelry and Metals, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio

1999 BFA Crafts, College of Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan
 
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