Anne Savedge

Anne Savedge is an American photographic artist, art educator, and art curator. In 1979 she served as president of the Richmond Artists Association.

Anne Savedge studied at James Madison University and Virginia Commonwealth University. She has taught at the Chesterfield Technical Center, John Tyler Community College, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Anne Savedge is an emeritus artist board member of 1708 Gallery. She has curated shows for 1708 and exhibited her art at 1708 in its Broad Street location and in its satellite outreach exhibitions elsewhere. Savedge is one of the Richmond art leaders honored with the exhibition Landmarks II exhibition by 1708 at the Inn at Linden Row, a show which also included the work of artistsGregg Carbo, Tom Chenoweth, Paul DiPasquale, Gerald Donato, Danny Finney, Joan Gaustad, Chris Gregson, Kathryn Henry-Choisser, Davi Det Hompson, Diego Sanchez,Kendra Wadsworth, and Aggie Zed.

Themes and names of photographic series by Savedge include cowgirls, waterfalls, swimmers, and belly dancers. Her exhibition Shootin' at Artspace in 2016 was based on her interest in Westerns and cowboys. Her exhibition Seasons and Gardens was shown at Artspace in 2012. She is a member of the Virginia Society of Photographic Artists (VSPA) and participates in their shows. Savedge was chosen as one of the artists with over 25 years of outstanding careers for a show at the Richmond Public Library. In 2013, she participated in Herald I, also at the Richmond Public Library, along with eleven other artists. Andras Bality, Brad Birchett, Kathleen Markowitz, Sarah Masters, Elaine Rogers, Diego Sanchez, Tom Chambers, Pam Fox, John Heroy, Medford Taylor, and David R. White. Her solo and dual shows have included Anne Savedge, A Survey, LRI Gallery, in 2013; Capital One Gallery, 2013-2014; Seasons and Gardens, Artspace in Richmond, Virginia Sept – Oct. 2012; Color and Motion, Staunton, Virginia Augusta Art Center, June - July 2012; Belly Dancers, Balliceaux, Richmond VA, Jan - Feb. 2011; In Motion, Avenue Arts Gallery, Lynchburg, Virginia June, 2009; Color and Movement, Project Space Art Gallery, Plant Zero, in 2008; Anne Savedge, Virginia Center for Architecture, 2004 - 2009; Belly Dancers, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, in April 2006; Anne Savedge: Water Series, Capital One Art Gallery, August – September, 2005; Anne Savedge: Water Series, E3 Gallery, New York City, April 2004; Veils of Water, Longwood University Center for the Visual Arts, in 2003; Pixels, 1912 Gallery, Emory and Henry College, in 2000; Threefold: Perceptions, 1708 Gallery, in 1999; and Transformations, 1708 Gallery, in 1994.

The art of Anne Savedge is in the collections of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Taubman Museum of Art, the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Chrysler Museum of Art, The Polaroid International Collection, Westlicht Photographic Gallery in Vienna, Austria, The Pinhole Resource in San Lorenzo, New Mexico, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Valentine Museum in Richmond, Virginia, and Capital One Corp.

Beginning in 1994, she became a member of a SkillsUSA National Education Team. She received a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship in 2001-2002 and an individual artist fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts in 1999. She received a Virginia Art Educator of the Year award in 1998 and a Teacher of the Year award from the Trade and Industrial Education group in 2005. In 2000 she was selected Southeastern Art Educator of the Year. Also in 2000 she received honorable mention from the Santa Fe Center for the Visual Arts for an Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award. She participated in an international teacher development and exchange with Cheshire, England in 1994. She received an Artists in Education Grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts in 1988.

Her photographs and her quotations about photographic processes have been used in books and other publications by noted photographers and historians of photography. Her work was included in Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age by Robert J. Hirsch, pp. 256.

Savedge was a frequent subject for the Pool Series in cibachrome and Pinhole camera photographs by Willie Anne Wright.