{"id":12287,"date":"2025-01-04T16:33:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T21:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=12287"},"modified":"2025-01-04T16:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T21:33:52","slug":"anna-kirby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/anna-kirby","title":{"rendered":"Anna Kirby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-Triplicate_She_lives..jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1367\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-Triplicate_She_lives..jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13393\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-Triplicate_She_lives..jpg 1000w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-Triplicate_She_lives.-219x300.jpg 219w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-Triplicate_She_lives.-749x1024.jpg 749w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-Triplicate_She_lives.-768x1050.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-Triplicate_She_lives.-210x287.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Triplicate (She lives.)<\/em><br>12&#8243;x8.5&#8243;; analog paper collage with oil paint accents; 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anna Kirby<\/strong><br><strong>Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anna Kirby\u2019s collages are sensory poems that express the complex emotions surrounding child loss, infertility, and female identity. She is inspired by the harmony of complementary colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anna Kirby is a community college English instructor living in North Carolina, USA. Her collages have been selected for juried exhibitions across the country. Her collages also appear in magazines and literary<br>journals. She makes her collages using second-hand books, scissors, and glue dots, and she accents her pieces with oil paints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:annakirby214@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EMAIL<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annakirby.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WEBSITE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby_Offering.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"914\" height=\"1172\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby_Offering.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby_Offering.jpg 914w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby_Offering-234x300.jpg 234w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby_Offering-799x1024.jpg 799w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby_Offering-768x985.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby_Offering-210x269.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 914px) 100vw, 914px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Offering<\/em><br>14&#8243;x11&#8243;; analog paper collage with oil paint accents; 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-The_City_and_a_Dream.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1400\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-The_City_and_a_Dream.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-The_City_and_a_Dream.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-The_City_and_a_Dream-214x300.jpg 214w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-The_City_and_a_Dream-731x1024.jpg 731w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-The_City_and_a_Dream-768x1075.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-The_City_and_a_Dream-210x294.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The City and a Dream<\/em><br>11&#8243;x8&#8243;; analog paper collage with oil paint accents; 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-I_go_in_and_out_of_sleep_to_pass_the_time.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1149\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-I_go_in_and_out_of_sleep_to_pass_the_time.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-I_go_in_and_out_of_sleep_to_pass_the_time.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-I_go_in_and_out_of_sleep_to_pass_the_time-261x300.jpg 261w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-I_go_in_and_out_of_sleep_to_pass_the_time-891x1024.jpg 891w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-I_go_in_and_out_of_sleep_to_pass_the_time-768x882.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-I_go_in_and_out_of_sleep_to_pass_the_time-210x241.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>I go in and out of sleep to pass the time.<\/em><br>11&#8243;x9.5&#8243;; analog paper collage with oil paint accents; 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby_Inner_Child.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby_Inner_Child.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby_Inner_Child.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby_Inner_Child-300x185.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby_Inner_Child-768x475.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby_Inner_Child-210x130.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Inner Child<\/em><br>18&#8243;x24&#8243;; analog paper collage with oil paint accents; 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wake Forest, North Carolina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8],"tags":[202],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-kirby-Triplicate_She_lives..jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BNTD-3cb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13399,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12287\/revisions\/13399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}