Haas Center for Performing Arts Gallery (PAC 1121), Allendale Campus
June 6, 2022 - June 24, 2022

Hours:
Monday - 10am-5pm
Tuesday - 10am-5pm
Wednesday - 10am-5pm
Thursday - 10am-7pm
Friday - 10am-5pm

Ann Baddeley Keister joined the art and design faculty at Grand Valley State University in 1997 after producing art, lecturing and teaching at Idaho State University, Ball State University, University of Kansas and Indiana University. Her quilts, tapestries and fabric-based art have been widely exhibited and published. Being an avid traveler, Ann directed a university study abroad program where she shared her love of life and art with her students, in London at Kingston University. Her strong connections to the world of textile art allowed her to organize exhibitions and produce catalogs. Her art work is held in public, private, corporate and museum collections. 

Ann passed away on January 11, 2020 at age 72, surrounded by family and friends. In her memory, plant flowers, buy a book, read to a friend, go to the symphony, listen to music, and especially, sauté garlic, onions, scallops, and wine then share a meal with a friend. In Lieu of flowers, we suggest a donation to the Nedra J. Smith Otis Art and Design Scholarship: https://www.gvsu.edu/giving/give-online2.htm.

This exhibition honors Ann's life and work. Curated by her husband David Keister, it features textiles and sculptures from her many years as an artist and educator. 

To see Ann's work in the GVSU art collection visit artgallery.gvsu.edu. 

Inside the Garden invites viewers into the mind and life of Ann Baddeley Keister who cultivated her life as an artist some sixty years. Ann’s range of work is richly represented here: from strictly textile pieces to jewelry and fabric collaborations with Pat Nelson and then to word and image pieces made with poet Patricia Clark. Throughout her career, we see Ann’s vision and how it remained remarkably consistent across time with images of nature, play with color, fabric and design, experiments with Bauhaus style and art deco as well as Japanese influences. Ann loved acquiring fabric and a variety of beads, becoming especially intrigued with antique Japanese kimonos to use in her fabric art.

            Ann’s spirit is displayed here with color, pattern and play. Inside the Garden reflects her personality and generosity—always seeking connection with people through food, gardens and nature, meals and the pleasures of conversation and celebration. The artist may be physically absent but her spirit remains vibrantly alive in this exhibition. Ann was both an omnivorous reader of fiction and nonfiction and a seeker/gatherer of images, colors, and places as she travelled in the United States and in Europe. She was also a gatherer of people: to her kitchen, garden, and dining table. How fitting we can celebrate her art today with many of those who loved her. Ann’s art lives on and reveals her great vitality and exuberance, her joie de vivre, and devotion to craft, creation, and all that she found to be beautiful.

Location

June 6, 2022 - June 24, 2022

Haas Center for Performing Arts Gallery (PAC 1121)
Haas Center for Performing Arts, Allendale Campus
1 Campus Dr.
Allendale, MI 49401

Contact

For special accommodation, please call:
(616) 331-3638

For exhibition details and media inquires, please email:
Joel Zwart, Curator of Exhibitions
[email protected]

For learning and engagement opportunities, please email:
[email protected]