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# SMC professor awarded fellowship By Daily Press Staff
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/smc-professor-awarded-fellowship-by-daily-press-staff/
- Published: 2004-10-25T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T05:20:12.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica, #archive-import

Santa Monica College art professor Anne Marie Karlsen has been awarded a fellowship by the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, where she’ll spend three weeks in the countryside in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains pursuing new artwork early next year.

Karlsen, a Westchester resident, will be among approximately 20 fellows at the working retreat for visual artists, writers and composers in Amherst, Va.

It will be the second time Karlsen has won a fellowship to the center, and she plans to spend late January and early February working on a project that combines watercolor painting with digital images, based on photos she took on a recent trip to Norway.

Karlsen’s work has been in the public collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Fogg Art Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Lannan Foundation, among others. She was commissioned to create the artwork at the North Hollywood Red Line Metro station and to create a hand-sculpted, ceramic water feature at Paseo Colorado in Pasadena.

Karlsen has been teaching at SMC since 1986.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 25, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/102504.pdf?ref=smdp.com)