Anne Goetz, Tennessee painter, photographer and filmmaker

Anne Goetze, Tennessee painter, photographer, and filmmaker was influenced by art at a very early age, being born into an artistic family. Her father and grandfather were both photographers, making her a third-generation photographer. Likewise, her mother provided a backdrop of visual poetry with her ongoing creation of works in embroidery and cultivation of beautiful gardens.

Those memories left a lasting impression on Anne. In addition, she cites her influences to be the documentary photography of Dorothea Lange during the Depression Era, and the paintings of the French and American Impressionists from the late nineteenth century. As she pursued her artistic interests in school, college soon became disheartening in her quest to learn the hands-on of photography, lighting, and film. She turned to apprenticing with  professional photographers and taking private art lessons. She has studied with contemporary artists and friends like Anton Weiss, Quang Ho, Skip Whitcomb, and Dawn Whitelaw.

For Anne,  painting offered her a complementary medium of expression, running parallel to and intersecting with her work in photography. As a retouch artist in the music business in Nashville for years, she developed a particular technique where she combines the two mediums. Goetze believes there is a connection with God via creation and, be they a spiritual seeker or one who’s finally found their standing, every living soul desires a “sense of place.”  That place

for her was found on a small farm out in the country, where the landscape and rural life soon became her cherished subject matter. For over twenty years now, she has also traveled back and forth to the French Alps of Annecy to document through art, the beauty of the cloistered life of the nuns living and working within the Monastery of the Visitation. With a persistent love and concern for the land, she is involved with many environmental and conservation groups, helping to bring awareness through both the arts and activism. Her memberships also include art organizations such as the Oil Painters of America, The

American Impressionist Society, Metro Nashville Arts Commission, and she is a founding member of The Chestnut Group, a non-profit plein air painters group dedicated to land conservancy.

In addition to respect received from fellow artists, Anne’s work is admired in many permanent collections such as The Tennessee State Museum, the Booth Western Art Museum, and Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, as well as the personal collections of notable figures like Oprah Winfrey, Tony Joe White, U.S. Senator Fred Thompson, Tim McGraw, Michael McDonald, Naomi Judd, John Hiatt, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, and Billy Ray Cyrus, among others.