Anne Furnaris

Resume

Education, exhibitions, awards, publications, and memberships — curriculum vitae of the Metaphysical Christogrammic Art.

Selected highlights from a decades-long exhibition record across Michigan, Washington D.C., Brazil, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. For a complete checklist or high-resolution portfolio, contact the studio.

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Education

College for Creative Studies

Detroit, Michigan — Bachelor of Fine Arts.

University of Galați

Romania — Engineering degree, 1977.

Doctor in Divinity

California.

Christian Minister

Ordained ministry alongside the metaphysical art practice.

Exhibitions & Awards

2026

GPAA Lines and Angle — Artist Third Place Award; GPAA Love and Feeling — Artist Third Place Award; Members Show, Starkweather Arts Center; Anton Art Center the Heart Show; DWPS Detroit Library Detroit Roots Show.

2025

Starkweather Members Show — Second Place; CCS Alumni & continue studies exhibitions; LPC My Favorite at GPAA — Honorable Mention; Detroit Artist Market Member Exhibition; Greater Flint Art Council invitations.

2024

Ya’ Gotta’ Eat, Starkweather Arts Center — First Place (juried by Sue Schneider); Anton Art Center Artist Choice Award; Starkweather Member Show Choice Award; CCS Nest & Alumni exhibitions; GPAA Ode to Mother Earth.

2023

Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition, Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum — Third Place (juried by Michael Dunbar); Michigan Artists Exhibit, Greater Flint Arts Center — First Place; Starkweather Annual Members Show — Second Place; GPAA Green — Third Prize.

2022

41st Annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition, BBAC — MFAC Award; War or Peace / Urbanization and Health / Protect Habitat international competitions (Art Impact International, Washington D.C.) — Honorable Mentions; Starkweather & GFAC — Honorable Mentions.

2021–2016

Multiple First, Second, and Honorable Mention awards at Anton Art Center, Lakeside Palette Club, Starkweather Arts Center, GPAA, and Greater Flint Arts Council — including Michigan Clay Artists Invitational and All Media exhibits.

2013–2011

Michigan Juried All-Media Exhibit, GFAC — Second Prize (2013); Exposição de Artistas Estrangeiros, Museu de Arte de Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brasil — solo presentation and donations of paintings and terracotta sculptures (2011).

Selected Collections

  • Museu de Arte de Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brasil
  • Saint George Romanian Orthodox Cathedral, Southfield, Michigan
  • Greater Flint Arts Council, Flint, Michigan
  • Brian Killian & Company, Birmingham, Michigan
  • Starkweather Arts Center, Romeo, Michigan
  • Robert Quinn, Royal Dragon Court and Society, Washington, USA
  • HI & RH Nicholas de Vere von Drakenberg, United Kingdom

Publications

The Gates of the Mind of Man

Metaphysical Tablets, Alchemical Poetry, and Transcendental Esoteric Art Images for the Coming of the Sixth Race of Man — Anne Furnaris [Annathaa Theaa] and William Furnaris [Jothaa Enneus], Xlibris US, 2025.

The Gates of the Soul of Man

Metaphysical Tablets, Alchemical Poetry, and Transcendental-Esoteric Art Images for the Coming of the Sixth Race of Man — Annathaa Theea and Jotthaa Enneus, Xlibris Corporation LLC, 2013.

Memberships

  • Art Impact International Inc., Studio Gallery 208, Washington D.C.
  • Anton Art Center, Mount Clemens, Michigan (2016 – Present)
  • Lakeside Palette Club of St. Clair Shores (2015 – Present, Exhibiting Member)
  • Greater Flint Arts Council, Flint, Michigan (2003 – Present, Exhibiting Member)
  • Starkweather Art Center, Romeo, Michigan (2018 – Present)
  • Grosse Pointe Art Association (2015 – Present)
  • Detroit Artist Market (2020 – Present)
  • Romeo Artist Guild Association (2023 – Present)
  • Michigan Sculptors Association (2023 – Present)
  • DWPS (2023 – Present)

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