Arts Interview: In-Depth Conversation with Anne Sconberg and Mark Henderson, Founders of Anne and Mark’s Art Party

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Arts Interview: In-Depth Conversation with Anne Sconberg and Mark Henderson, Founders of Anne and Mark's Art Party

This week as her special guest from the arts Ruth Copland is pleased to be interviewing Anne Sconberg and Mark Henderson. Together they founded Anne and Mark’s Art Party, with the support of Georgie Huff. The ‘occasional and irrational’ Art Party started in 2007, and has grown into the largest, most diverse art event in the Bay Area of California. The San José Arts Commission and the Office of Cultural Affairs have announced that Anne and Mark are to be honoured with the 2016 Creative Impact Award stating that Anne and Mark’s Art Party “is completely unique in the operations and opportunities for both exhibitors and viewers. Different from galleries, museums, art shows, and craft fairs, the party is a breathtaking array of stimuli to impact a visitors’ eyes, ears, brain and heart.”

Anne Sconberg says she has “spent her entire life in an attempt to live in the creative hub of the universe”. In addition to Anne and Mark’s Art Party, she has founded Backwater Arts artists’ colony and has served on the City of San Jose’s Creative Entrepreneur’s Panel as well as San Jose’s Peer Review Panel for Creative Industries Incentive Fund.  

She attended Stanford University, where she received a BA in English Literature and developed her photographic skills. She has a degree from the Inchbald School of Design in London, where she received numerous awards and also has a degree in Multimedia Design from Tracor Arts in Madrid. In producing her own art Anne Sconberg works through the medium of photography.

Mark Henderson was born in England, in the county of Kent, grew up in New England then returned to England, where he studied at the Bath Academy of Art and received an honours degree in Ceramics and Three Dimensional Design. As an artist Mark Sconberg has worked as a ceramicist. He is now based in San Jose and when not working on Anne and Mark’s Art Party says he “spends most of his time building anything anyone can think of, collecting and testing cookbooks, and hanging out in his ceramics studio”.

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