An African-American painter and teacher, Ann Tanksley has lived primarily in New York state but spent her youth in Pennsylvania and also did some work in New Jersey. Her teaching career includes being an art instructor at Queens Youth Center for the Arts, New York, 1959-62; Instructor of art, Art Center Northern New Jersey, 1963; and substitute Instructor of art, Malvern Public Schools 1971-.

Exhibitions:
15 Women, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, 1969; Freedomways Exhibition, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers New York, 1971; United States 1971, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1971; Acts of Art, New York City, 1972; Black Women Artists, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts 1...