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Annette McCormick | |
| Birth Date: 1949
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| Annette McCormick’s animal imagery stems from a journey to East Africa in 1972, a year after she received her BFA at Florida Atlantic University where she still had access to the university ceramic studio and continued to work with clay. She continued her studies at Memphis Academy of Fine Arts, Wichita State University, and Ashland University. While in Africa, she came across elephant carcasses with tusks removed, and saw warehouses with tusks stacked like cordwood for export. She also saw spotted big cat skins stacked to the ceiling in seedy districts in Nairobi. These experiences left a profound effect on McCormick as an artist as she has incorporated elephant imagery into various works. Throughout her career she sculpted many other African species such as rhino and antelope—always with a thrown vessel of sorts as background.
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