Annalise Flynn

An art historian and arts administrator, Annalise Flynn is the principal of Vernacular Art Services. In that role, she manages content for SPACES–Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments, the world’s largest repository of archival documentation related to artist-built environments (www.spacesarchives.org), for the Kohler Foundation. Flynn’s work centers on highlighting vernacular creative activity, using material, collective memory, and place as research pillars. She also serves as the director of exhibitions for ART WORKS Projects, a Chicago-based human rights advocacy organization. She’s an alum of Northwestern University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is based in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, with her husband and two dogs.