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Annette Cone-Skelton

Annette Cone-Skelton
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Born 1942
Nationality American
Education Bachelors of Fine Arts
Alma mater Atlanta College of Art
Known for Minimal approach to the elements of color and shape
Style Visual Art
Awards Creative Loafing’s “Critic’s Choice for Best Visual Artist in Atlanta", 1998
Governor’s Awards for the Arts & Humanities, 2012
Museum Educator of the Year, Georgia Arts Education Association, 2012
Elected president, CEO, and director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia

Annette Cone-Skelton (born 1942) is a Georgia-based American artist, teacher, gallerist and art consultant. Currently, she is director and president of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. She studied at the Atlanta School of Art, now known as the Atlanta College of Art. Cone-Skelton's work is represented in the collections of various regional museums and galleries, public and private collections. The High Museum, the museums of Louis, Charlotte, Chattanooga, Birmingham and Montgomery and several academic institutions including Cornell University hold her work. She has been included in exhibitions at Le Grand Prix de Peinture and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. In 2000, she and David S. Golden co-founded the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.

Annette Cone-Skelton employs a minimal approach to the elements of color and shape to explore relationships of space to human dimension. In 9 Women in Georgia, she states that "When one draws a line one time, it is a line. When one draws line a thousand times, it is transformed."



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