hanni woodbury Bio
I was born in Hamburg. My mother was American and my father German. Just after the second world war, my family and I emigrated to the US. I studied music at Bard College and the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music. Some years later, I earned a B.A. in Anthropology at Vassar College, and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Anthropology, with a specialty in Anthropological Linguistics, at Yale University. My area of interest as a linguist is the description, documentations, and revitalization of Native American languages, especially the Iroquoian family of languages which I have studied for more than 40 years with native speakers of these languages, publishing, among other works, a dictionary and a grammar of the Onondaga language. After completing my graduate education, I held teaching positions at Fordham University and Columbia University.
My training in the graphic arts began more recently. I have studied with a number of artists in New England, most notably, Brian Cohen, Marty Epp, Catherine Farish, Betsey Garand, Elizabeth Mayor, Peter Pettengill, Vicky Tomayko and Bert Yarborough, in classes at AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH, at the Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction, VT, at the Truro (MA) Center for the Arts, and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. I was one of the founding members of the Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, and am currently a member of the Printmakers of Cape Cod and the Monotype Guild of New England. At present, my work is being shown at Off Main Gallery in Wellfleet, MA.
My work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout New England, and in solo exhibitions at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, NH; at Paper Crane in Beverly, MA; at AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, NH; and at the Wellfleet, MA public library. Recent group shows and activities include Members Juried Exhibitions at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum; and in juried shows at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA; the Provincetown Art Association and Museum; at Art strand Gallery in Provincetown; group shows in various locations in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts, include AVA Gallery and Art Center and the Kimball Union Academy. I have participated in portfolio projects at Two Rivers Printmakers, copies of which now form a part of numerous private and public collections, including the Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, New Hampshire and the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester New Hampshire, and the Berry Special Collections Library at the University of Vermont.