Anne Bossert Art

Bio
Anne Bossert designs and builds all the furniture and fine art pictured on this website. She is a fiber artist, woodworker, and metal worker rolled up in one person. While her designs are original, she is quite inspired by mid-twentieth century furniture and industrial design.

Anne grew up on a farm in central Illinois. Surrounded by rows and rows of corn and soybeans during her childhood, Anne’s love of stripes was born. In her woodworking, she uses high end plywood to express her love of stripes by cutting different angles into the plywood to create various striping effects. Also a fiber artist, Anne circuitously got into woodworking through working with textiles. As a weaver painting dye onto cotton warp threads, she learned that the same dyes can be used on wood (the dyes color anything that is a cellulose fiber). In graduate school at Colorado State University at the time of this discovery, Anne designed a coffee table to contain her handwoven fabric, both of which she dyed in the same colors. She had help building that first table, but then got a book on joinery and was able to figure out how to build her ideas, thereafter. Anne’s BFA is in metalwork and jewelry from Northern Illinois University. And she really enjoys including metal in her artwork wherever she can. Anne continues to play with different ways of combining her textiles, woodworking, and metal while working in her shop in Fort Collins, Colorado. Anne lives with her husband and Starla the cat in a mid-century ranch home they are renovating.