Information about Anna Arnold

Anna Arnold is a painter and educator who 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 recently graduated from the Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies program earning a Master’s degree in Art Education and teacher’s licensure. She completed an extensive two year program under the leadership of director Tim Shuckerow.

Anna is currently pursuing a career in art education in Northeast Ohio. This can range from teaching kindergarten through the 12th grade in schools to working in an education department of a museum or gallery.

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. As a teacher, she believes she is a catalyst to inspire, uplift and change.  She has helped to educate hundreds of school children as an 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 drumming, dance, and music. It was funded by Case Western Reserve University, The Cleveland Foundation and UBS Wealth Management.

Anna is recognized for her lush, exuberantly colorful expressive portraits, ceramics, masks, beads and painted furniture. Highlights of her exhibitions are the:

  • The Alternative Museum, NYC
  • California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles
  • Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
  • Akron Art Museum, Ohio
  • South Bend Regional Art Museum, Indiana
  • The Center for Art and Religion, Washington, DC.
  • The Progressive Corp., Cleveland, Ohio
  • Promega Corp. Gallery, Madison, WI.
  • Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland
  • The Wasmer Gallery at Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio

Anna’s works are in the permanent collections of: 

  • The Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Kaiser Permanente Hospital, Cleveland Hts., Ohio
  • Metro Health Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio
  • The AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland
  • The Cleveland Public Library

Anna’s 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
  • The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2006 Martin Luther King Jr. Service to the Field Awards
  • Portrait commissions of Garth Fagan, choreographer of the “Lion King” and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, founder and artistic director of the Urban Bush Women presented by DanceCleveland
  • The stunning mixed media stained glass and mosaic tile Globe for the Historic Cleveland Public Library in downtown

Anna 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.

 

 Artist Anna Arnold graduated with an MA (Master of Art in Art Education) degree from Case Western Reserve University in May 2010. Anna seeks a full time or part time teaching position in elementary, middle or high school in public or private school. She would also fit very well working in the education department of an art museum, gallery or large community center. Anna is also a professional artist who exhibits in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and accepts private and corporate commissions.