Anne Tait is a multimedia artist trained in printmaking, painting and embroidery. She has lived and worked in Providence since 1997. Her work has been supported through grants from the Rhode Island Council for the Arts, the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, the Vermont Humanities Council for the Humanities and the American Culture Association. As well as exhibiting her paintings, prints and embroidery throughout the US, she has curated the exhibitions: “The Carver with a Ripped Apron” on the artwork of the gravestone carvers in Vermont and “The Humanity of the Marble Headstone”. She has also received awards for her efforts to preserve urban cemeteries in Providence.
Your Eyes Only #2 2025
Digital Print on Velvet & Embroidery 16″ x 24″
Artist Statement
Her work, from earlier oil paintings done in layers of oil glazes of translucent color on tondi (round paintings), expose a sinewy eccentric world of floating forms that push the picture plane in an intentionally disorientating setting, intending the purposeful subterfuge to be both mysterious and comedic. Her more recent work, prints, glass pieces and the accompanying images from the research the question her work asks look at death and the ways we that live contend with this question. Tait’s work addresses the establishment of self from conception to maturity, sometimes with a playful humor. Her recent work frames these questions in dialogue with nature and the impacts of environment. She addresses the culmination of earthly life through her research on cemetery imagery and traditions of the 19th century. “Between conception and death the window is open on our potential” Tait contends. With this framework and the implications this asks from our life and her artwork’s efforts to ask this.
Additional Info:
Artist’s Instagram: @Annie.tait
Part of Growing the NetWorks
This artist was selected by a past NetWorks Rhode Island participant as part of Growing the NetWorks — a 2025 exhibition presented by WaterFire Providence, at the WaterFire Arts Center, celebrating peer-nominated artists from across Rhode Island. Learn more at waterfire.org/growingthenetworks
Highlighting the work of selected artists who have played vital roles in shaping the contemporary visual arts community in Rhode Island. This collection of brief video portraits provides a window into the lives, practices, and cultural contributions of professional artists.
