Anita huffington biography

Biography.
Anita Huffington's history includes a long period in New York City starting in the late fifties when she came to study dance with Martha Graham and Merce.
Biography.

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Anita Huffington's history includes a long period in New York City starting in the late fifties when she came to study dance with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. She became acquainted with a circle of artists of the New York School, such as Kline and de Kooning, as well as a diverse and individualistic group of painters, sculptors, musicians, and poets in this vital idealistic period. These experiences and her later choice to live in the woods of the Arkansas Ozarks sowed the seeds for the sculpture she makes in stone, bronze, wood, and mixed media. Her work reflects both the world of art and the spirit of her life in the woods.

Huffington has exhibited her work continually since the mid-1970's in various galleries, including eight one person shows at the O'Hara Gallery in New York City. Her sculpture has also been featured at the Valley House Gallery in Dallas, the Benton Gallery in South Hampton, the Triangle Gallery in San Francisco, and the Louis Stern Gallery in West Hollywood. Her work has been represented in diverse private and public collections and numerous exhibiti

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Governor, Sculptor to Receive Honorary Degrees from University of Arkansas

April 21, 2014

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Gov. Mike Beebe and Anita Huffington.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe and Anita Huffington, a nationally known sculptor who has made Northwest Arkansas her adopted home, will both receive honorary degrees from the University of Arkansas on Saturday, May 10, during the All University commencement ceremony in Bud Walton Arena.

Gov. Beebe will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree; Huffington will receive an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree. Both will address graduating students during the ceremony.

“It is a great pleasure to be able to recognize and honor two such distinct and accomplished Arkansans,” said Chancellor G. David Gearhart. “Gov. Beebe is a living example of the power of education to transform a person’s life, and he has certainly been a champion for education in our state. But more than that – he has worked diligently for most of his professional life to make our state a better place, to improve t

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Anita Huffington

American sculptor (born 1934)

Anita Huffington (born December 25, 1934) is an American sculptor who is noted for her stone and Bronze representation of the female torso.

Biography

Anita Huffington was born in Baltimore in 1934. She majored in dance, drama, and art at the University of North Carolina before moving to New York City to study dance with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. She eventually gravitated towards the visual arts and joined a circle of artists from the New York School that included Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Philip Guston. She returned to school, studying art at Bennington College and the University of South Florida before returning to New York's City College, where she earned her Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees.

A first marriage ended in divorce, but produced a daughter named Lisa. In 1964, she married Hank Sutter, and they lived in New York until 1977 when they felt the need for change. Seeking solitude and contemplation, they found an old log cabin in the Ozark Mountains near Winslow, Arkansas, and spe