Anita Cooke

Anita Cooke is a visual artist living in New Orleans. She received her BFA at Kent State University in Ohio and her MFA in ceramics and sculpture at Newcomb College/Tulane University in New Orleans. Cooke has taught Ceramics, Drawing and 3-D Design at Tulane University, Loyola, Delgado, Stephen F. Austin State (TX), Western Michigan State, and ceramics to children and adults out of her studio in New Orleans.
Cooke’s 28-foot ceramic mural “LightSounds” can be seen on the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo and she has been a Louisiana Fellowship recipient. She has exhibited her work extensively in Louisiana at Mario Villa Gallery, Carol Robinson Gallery, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Contemporary Art Center, the New Orleans Art Center, Capitol Park Museum, Carroll Gallery of Tulane University, Gallery I/O, the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette and many other venues. Nationally she has shown at the Southern Ohio Museum of Art, the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Leila Taghinia Heller Gallery (NYC), The Center of the Earth Gallery in Charlotte (NC), the Dishman Art Museum (TX), The Greenwood Arts Center (SC), the Reece Museum (TN), Sebastopol Center for the Arts (CA), Georgetow...

EDUCATION
1984 MFA Tulane University; New Orleans, LA Ceramics/Sculpture
1978 BFA Kent State University; Kent, OH Ceramics

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 SEARCHING FOR GOLD; Baton Rouge Gallery, Center for Contemporary Art
2022 STRATA: INSIDE/OUT; Baton Rouge Gallery, Center for Contemporary Art
NEWSFEED: NO PICNIC Installation at The Front, New Orleans; Sept.
BAGGAGE CLAIM, Installation at The Front, New Orleans
2021 EDGEWORKS; Baton Rouge Gallery, Center for Contemporary Art; Baton Rouge, LA
2018 STRATA: Sculptural Textile Paintings, Mixed Media and Collage
Georgetown Art Center, Georgetown, Texas August 10- September 23, 2018
2016 DIMENSIONAL PATTERNING II: STRATA, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans LA
2012 DENSITY, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2009 DIMENSIONAL PATTERNING: SEWN CONSTRUCTIONS, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery,
New Orleans, LA
2004 LAYERED WORLDS; Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1999 GRIDWORKS: NEW WORKS IN CLAY, Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1996 COLLECTIONS: NEW WORKS IN CLAY, Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans,
1992 HOMEVISIONS AND OTHER WORKS IN CLAY, Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans,
1991 ANITA COOKE: RECENT WORK, Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1987 ANITA COOKE: RECENT WORK, Mario Villa Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1985 ANITA COOKE CLAYWORKS, Mario Villa Gallery...