Anne Harper Arrasmith

She was born in Birmingham, Alabama and was a lifetime resident.

She graduated from Shades Valley High School. She attended the University of Alabama, and graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in its first four year graduating class.

In 1986, she co-founded, along with Peter Prinz, Space One Eleven (SOE), a nationally recognized non-profit visual arts organization. SOE has presented hundreds of artists in over 250 visual arts exhibitions and projects, and developed and implemented SOE’s flagship tuition-free arts education program, City Center Art, which serves economically disadvantaged youth and annually employs artists as teachers and workshop leaders.

In conjunction with her work at Space One Eleven she was also a mentor to many young people who aspired to professions in the arts.

With Prinz, she secured many national, state, and local grants bringing recognition to the artists of Birmingham and Alabama communities. Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Alabama State Council on the Arts, and The Alabama Humanities Foundation attest to the excellence of the Deep South based visual artists Space One Eleven champions.

She was a board member of the Alabama School of Fine Art, a member of ArtTable, a national organization for professional women in the visual arts, and a fellow of the Leadership Institute for Visual Arts Organizations – a program of the National Alliance for Media Art and Culture. She was also member of Leadership Birmingham, Class of 1996.

She was the recipient of a number of awards including: UAB’s Distinguished Alumni Award 2011; Alabama Cahaba Girl Scout Council’s Woman of Distinction Award; Birmingham Festival of Arts’ Silver Bowl Award;

Operation New Birmingham’s Distinguished Artist Award.

Throughout her life she continued her work as a visual artist. One of her most recent distinguished works is The Robin and Carolyn Wade House. The Wade House is a living and evolving piece of art, serving as a canvas for the ever-changing flow of ideas of its creators while remaining a haven for its owner.

Survivors include her husband, Dr. Warren W. Arrasmith, her daughter Tyndall Arrasmith and son-in-law Zachary Jasie, two grandchildren Ella and Waylon Jasie of Brooklyn, N.Y. and her sister, Sally Harper of Memphis, Tenn. The extended family includes Beth and Rick Woodward, Susan and Bob Chambers, Patsy and Bob Cummings, Bill and Belinda Hammond and Van Purdy.

She was the daughter of the late John and Sarah Harper.

The memorial service will be held at Johns Ridout’s, Southside, at 1 pm Monday. A reception will follow at Space One Eleven, 2409 Second Avenue North.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to be made in Anne’s name to Space One Eleven.

Arrangements under the direction of Ridout's Valley Chapel, Homewood, AL.