Artist Anna Arnold 

Anna received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in drawing and video from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1983. She is a prolific entrepreneur/artist who has produced paintings, sculptures, ceramics and jewelry for nearly 30 years.  She has exhibited in over 200 gallery and museum shows and events across the United States. Not only that, she is known as an innovative and engaging educator who has been invited to dozens of Cleveland and Ohio schools, colleges, galleries and museums, Anna has taught hundreds of children and adults through artists’ residencies, visiting artist programs and workshops.  Anna also has the distinction of being the first African American in the region to direct a college gallery.                                

 

Formerly, Anna held positions as the co-instructor with Cleveland’s Bureau of Cultural Arts’ “Mural My Neighborhood” educational and job training program for teens from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, the art instructor at Heights Youth Club and the Boys & Girls Club of Cleveland (a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming children’s lives).