Who is Anna Arnold the artist?

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Anna Arnold is from Cleveland, educated at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She has had lots of exhibitions throughout the United States. She enjoys teaching art to children . Anna makes portraits, ceramics, masks, beads and painted furniture.

Anna Arnold, painter, writer, educator, lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. Anna has been one of America's most expressive, exciting, enduring artists and independent educators for nearly three decades. She is an advocate of life-long learning and graduated from the Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies program. She earned a Master of Art in Art Education degree and teacher's licensure in 2010. She completed an extensive two year program.

Anna Arnold earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art and has exhibited in over 200 solo and group art exhibits throughout the United States. She has educated hundreds of school children as a visiting artist. Most recently, she taught painting and drawing with Martin Boyle to 5th, 6th and 7th grade Cleveland children in a summer art day camp program called "SmART in the City: Freedom to Make It". Other instructors taught ceramics and West African Percussion, Dance, and Music. It was funded by Case Western Reserve University, The Cleveland Foundation and UBS Wealth Management.

Anna is widely known for her vividly colorful expressive portraits, ceramics, masks, beads and painted furniture. Highlights of Anna's exhibitions are the Cleveland Museum of Art, Akron Art Museum, South Bend Regional Art Museum, Indiana, Center for Art and Religion, Washington, DC., Progressive Corp., Cleveland, Promega Corp. Gallery, Madison, WI., Western Reserve Historical Society and Wasmer Gallery at Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, OH,.

Her works are in the permanent collections of Progressive Corp., Kaiser Permanente, Metro Health Hospital, Ursuline College, the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland and the Cleveland Public Library. Noted commissions are "Angel On My Shoulder" for the 2006 American Cancer Society's Cattle Barron's Ball Live Auction created with children from the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals, 2006 Martin Luther King Jr. Service to the Field Award, portrait commissions of Garth Fagan, choreographer of the "Lion King" and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar,founder and artistic director of the Urban Bush Womenpresented by DanceCleveland, the stunning mixed media stained glass and mosaic tile Globe for the Historic Cleveland Public Library in downtown and GuitarMania.

Anna is known for her generousity in donating art to assist causes and organizations. She donated an original work of art for Faith Ringgold's "Anyone Can Fly Foundation" Exhibition and Auction hosted by the ACA Gallery in NYC in October 2009.

The following are a few examples of Anna's expressive works that are available for purchase for private, public, gallery and for museum art collections and for gallery and museum exhibitions.

GS3 Publishing has published a book showcasing two decades of Anna's work. For inquiries about her art for purchase, art and portrait commissions and books, please contact:

(216) 256-7018