Pe’Ah: the Corners of Our Fields

Anna decided she was going to be an artist when she was 11-when she lived in Paris for a summer, visiting every museum.While a fibers major at Philadelphia College of Art she became fascinated by the relationship between maps and the land they represent.After emigrating to Israel, Anna worked as a textile conservator in Haifa and Tel-Aviv. She studied at the Courtauld Institute in London, where she received an advanced degree in Textile Conservation. Back in the US, Anna worked for the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C and as a freelance conservator. At the same time, she continued to construct collage landscapes with scientific, political and meta-physical significance, depicting three or more dimensions on a two-dimensional plane.Anna lives in Baltimore and has two adult sons. Her work has been exhibited at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Maryland Governor’s Mansion, and the Israeli Embassy and is in the collection of the Haifa Museum of Art and the Beer-Sheva Biblical Museum. She was awarded a prize for the Encouragement of Young Artists for work exhibited in the Artist’s House in Jerusalem and received a Maryland State Arts Council grant for Individual Artists in 2008, 2016 and 2021.