Anna Wehrwein is an artist and curator based in Atlanta, GA. Originally from the Boston area, she received her BS in Art and BA in English/Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Tennessee. Her paintings and drawings have been featured in New American Paintings, Przekroj, West Branch Literary Journal and ArtMaze Magazine, among others. She has exhibited widely, with exhibitions at Pentimenti Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Thierry Goldberg online (New York, NY), and Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University (Waltham, MA) as well as being featured on Platform Art. She has been an artist in residence at the Cloud House at Dreamsong Gallery, VCCA, Vermont Studio Center, Anderson Ranch Art Center, and MacDowell. She is currently an Atlanta Contemporary Studio Artist as well as an Assistant Professor of Painting at Emory University.
In 2021, Anna co-founded stop-gap projects, an artist-run gallery and curatorial project. The small storefront became a culture hub in the college town of Columbia, MO, hosting over 40 events including exhibitions, screenings, workshops, readings, a book fair, talks, and pop-ups. Over the next four years, stop-gap projects worked with over 100 artists from across the country (and world) to develop exhibitions that prioritized spatial experimentation, material and cultural conversations, and artist collaborations. This also led to collaborative projects and programming with other artist-run spaces in the Midwest including Troost Gardens, 100Million, and The Weather Station.
