10 Facts About Margery Anneberg

Margery Channing Anneberg was an American museum founder and museum director, curator, gallerist, goldsmith, and jeweler.

Margery Anneberg founded the Anneberg Gallery in San Francisco, considered the first professional contemporary craft gallery; and she co-founded the San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum.

Margery Anneberg was named an honorary fellow by the American Craft Council in 1979.

Margery Anneberg was born in 1921 in Carroll, Iowa; and she was raised in Longview, Washington.

Margery Anneberg studied in the Far Eastern and Russian Institute at the University of Washington.

Margery Anneberg was a member of the Metal Arts Guild of San Francisco.

Margery Anneberg founded a gallery selling crafts and displaying local artists in 1966, initially named The Jewelry Shop and Gallery on Hyde Street; a year later it was renamed as the Margery Anneberg Gallery.

Margery Anneberg's gallery sold international contemporary folk art, with a few pieces of historical folk art.

In 1972, Margery Anneberg co-founded the Center for Folk Art and Contemporary Crafts, a nonprofit focused on crafts and folk, which never had a building.

Margery Anneberg died on May 19,2003 in a hospital, from complications of multiple sclerosis.