Best Maximalist Award-Winning Artist: Anna Fine Foer
Podcast Interview coming soon…
Anna decided to become an artist at age 12, during a summer spent in Paris visiting every museum and gallery she could. As a fibers and crafts major at the Philadelphia College of Art she developed a fascination with the relationship between maps and the landscapes they represent, sparking a lifelong interest in depicting topography and terrain through collage.
After emigrating to Israel, Anna worked as a textile conservator in Haifa and Tel-Aviv. She studied at the Textile Conservation Centre, Courtauld Institute in London, where she received a Post-graduate Diploma in Textile Conservation. Back in the US, Anna worked in conservation for the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C and for many museum clients as a freelance textile 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 now lives in Baltimore and has two adult sons. Her work has been exhibited at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the National Institutes of Health and the Israeli Embassy and is in the permanent collection of the Haifa Museum of Art and the Beer-Sheva Biblical Museum and many other prestigious venues. 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.