ANIE STANLEY

​Anie Stanley is a multimedia artist with an MFA from Hunter College and a BFA from Hartwick College in Fine Arts & Creative Writing. At Hartwick College in the upper Catskills, Anie studied with photographer Katherine Kreisher, painter Phil Young, sculpture Terry Slade, & renowned poet Carol Frost. Anie graduated best of show in BFA final exhibition, & was published in several college literary magazines. 

Anie evolved in NYC to pursue an MFA and a career in avant-garde filmmaking through a Structuralist approach under the guidance of artists Robert Morris & Andrea Blum. Anie has made over two dozen short films. Her super 8 mm films have shown internationally in film festivals, as well as at the American Museum in Paris, Yuerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the Whitney Museum of Art, and in MOMA’s Big As Life: History of American Super 8 Filmmaking series.

The experimental filmmaking work has been reviewed by publications such as The Village Voice, Time Out NY and included in essays by Jim Hubbard and Eve Oishi, highlighting the innovative approach to queer sexuality and gender identity by pairing it with early Americana imagery.  Her early German expressionistic landscape paintings and printmaking were exhibited in Provincetown, Ma., & NYC, and are part of the Reggie Cabral collection.

After transitioning back to life in the Catskills, Anie began to explore her native roots & explore homesteading social practice, her upbringing in the Antiques business & nostalgia for design, while resuming a suited process of writing poetry again about the re-connection with nature, about lovers, and recalling the personal history of experience with locals from childhood.

In 2007 Anie founded Smokey Belles Catskills Queer Artist Retreat Homestead in Narrowsburg, NY. Since then, has hosted over 50 multimedia artists & writer’s.  Anie received the NY State Assembly Certificate of Merit & Literary Arts Grant award from DVAA Arts for Sullivan NYSCA regrant program.

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Anie has been Chair of the Tusten Heritage Community Garden in Narrowsburg, NY for 12 years. The garden is officially on the map as a Pollinator Pathway location, A Monarch Watch Way Station, & a Green Space in Sullivan County.