Anna Foer

Biography

Anna Fine Foer decided she was going to be an artist when she was 11-when she lived in Paris for a summer, visiting every museum and gallery.  As a fibers student at Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts) she became fascinated by the relationship between maps and the land they represent, embarking on a lifelong interest in maps and collage.

Anna emigrated to Israel, where she 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. She worked in conservation for the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C.  All this time, she continued to work with collage, creating landscapes with sacred, political and meta-physical significance, depicting three or more dimensions on a two-dimensional plane.

Anna now lives in Annapolis, Maryland with her husband and two sons.  She has reconnected to the world of fiber art by working as the studio manager in the Fiber Dept at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art).

Anna’s work has appeared at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Maryland Governor’s Mansion, and the Israeli Embassy.  Her work is in the permanent collection of the Haifa Museum of Art and the Beer-Sheva Biblical Museum. 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.