Anne McInnis headshot outdoors
Degree Seeking
PhD
Email
anne.mcinnis25@uga.edu
Undergraduate Institution
State University of New York (SUNY) Empire State College, NY
Undergraduate Degree
BA in Visual Arts, Emphasis in Fine Arts
Masters Institution
University of Georgia
Masters Degree
Ph.D. Textile Sciences
Hometown
Technically Atlanta, but NYC for most of her adult life
CV
Anne McInnis CV Spring 2023
Research Detail
Anne’s academic research examines creative collaboration across age and experience levels between multiple generations. Living in NYC for nearly four decades and working as a creative professional in the fashion and textile industry, she has tracked and experienced the global shifts in creative labor and technology that have reshaped textile and clothing production and consumption. Her work is a new take on the social aspects of fashion that challenges the industry’s problem with ageism and its extreme focus on youth culture.

Her research has been published in Fashion Practice (2021), and the International Journal of Fashion Practice (2021), and presented at international and domestic symposiums. She has an upcoming chapter in the book, Responsible Fashion Series: Can Fashion Save the World? (Routledge 2023). She graduated with a Ph.D. in Textile Sciences in Spring 2023.
Biography

Anne McInnis is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Textiles, Merchandising, and Interiors at the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, UGA. She received the Lamar Dodd School of Art Interdisciplinary Fellowship for the academic years 2021 and 2022. Originally from Atlanta, Anne attended UGA as a BFA in drawing and painting. In 1981, after her work was exhibited in the Artists in Georgia ’80 group show at the High Museum in Atlanta, she dropped out of college to live and work in NYC as an artist. She accidentally fell into the textile industry where she enjoyed a decades-long career in textile design and product development in the fashion and soft furnishings industries. After completing her BA in Visual Arts in 2017 at SUNY Empire College in the city, she returned to UGA as a graduate student.