Anna Chapman

Anna Champman (she/her) received a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012, a Master of Arts in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2025. She is actively creating and showing work in Western Massachusetts, and Cleveland, Ohio. She is also teaching in several different contexts: through the undergraduate art department at Umass Amherst, through the pre-college program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and biannually through ecoartspace, a platform for artists addressing environmental issues. She also occasionally co-facilitates large-scale youth-led murals with Artolution, an international, community-based public art organization. Many of the materials she uses are sourced from the surrounding environment, requiring participation with the land, animals, and people around her. For example, black walnut husks, foraged sticks from trees and vines, as well as locally sourced fibers are processed to make ink, charcoal, and yarn.

Anna Chapman is an artist, an art educator, and a community arts facilitator. These three modes of practice directly inform each other, yielding a sustainable and holistic approach that allows her to flow between intuitive expression, community+environmental connection, and creative guidance. She is passionate about continuously exploring transformative approaches to art making, community cohesion, and connection to land, in light of destabilized socio-ecological contexts.