Alongside her career in brand design, Anne Adams-Kennedy maintains a fine art practice rooted in drawing and hand-built imagery. Working in graphite, drawing ink, colored pencil, and watercolor, she builds each piece from digital collage sources she constructs herself, layering found and her own photographed imagery into a single reference before a mark is ever made. The subject at the center of that practice is Victorian art and architecture, its ornament and shadow filtered through a lifelong love of Pre-Raphaelite painting and early 2oth century Surrealism — a sensibility first shaped during her fine art training at the Maryland Institute College of Art. One of her works was most recently featured in the People's Gallery at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, DE.
Anne Adams-Kennedy is a Baltimore-based creative director and graphic designer with more than three decades of experience building brands from the page to the retail floor. She currently serves as Retail Graphics Director at major bedding retailer, where she shapes the visual language of the brand across e-commerce, packaging, and point-of-purchase environments. Her work sits at the intersection of design and commerce, translating brand strategy into imagery that performs on shelves, screens, and storefronts alike.
Anne spent fifteen years at a another major bedding retailer, rising from Art Director and Marketing Manager to Creative Director, leading campaign development, product launches, and cross-platform content strategy for major retail partners. Earlier roles include fashion catalog and photo shoot production, freelance design work through her own studio, and over a decade in both newspaper design and marketing. She holds a BFA in General Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD.
