Anna Lentz is a visual artist and arts educator living in Dundee, IL. She studied anthropology, women’s studies, and studio art at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN as well as community art at California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA. She earned her MA in Art Education at School of the Arts Institute, Chicago, IL. Her research interests include community-based art education, hospitality, and vernacular art. Anna currently processes her emotions and life happenings through painting and sewing vibrant colors and shapes. She also explores the natural worlds of her woodland home where she practices conservation and agroforestry.
Solo Exhibitions
Rendezvous Arts/ Exhibited Alongside James Sanders & Conjunto
2026, DIXON, LAKE FOREST, CHICAGO, IL
University of Michigan/ Gifts of Art: Michigan Medicine
2025, ANN ARBOR, MI
Side Street Studio Arts/ Elgin Fringe Festival 2025
2025, ELGIN, IL
Logan Square Pilates/ Artist in Residence
2024, CHICAGO, IL
One River School of Art and Design/ These Trees Are Portals
2024, EVANSTON, IL
Geneva Public Library/ Interior Painting
2024, GENEVA, IL
Exhibitions & Awards
Stevenson High School/ Artist in Residence
2026, LINCOLNSHIRE, IL
Bridgeport Art Center/ Faceted Fiber
2025, CHICAGO, IL
Vagabond Art/ Vinoteca
2025, CHICAGO, IL
Art For Life/ DIFFA Juried Fundraiser for fighting against HIV/AIDS
2025, CHICAGO, IL
Center for the Visual Arts/ Art By The Foot
2025, WASAU, IL
Arts of Life/ Perennial Hug
2025, CHICAGO, IL
Woman Made Gallery/ Acts of Care: Nurturing the Present, Shaping the Future/ Virtual Artist Panel Participant
2025, CHICAGO, IL
Side Street Studios Art/ Fringe Festival 2026, Something Wicked, Year 12, Fringe Festival 2025, Insiders Show, Monochrome Purple, Year 11
2023-2025, ELGIN, IL
Oak Park Art League/ Figures And Faces
2025, OAK PARK, IL
ARC Gallery/ Beneath The Surface
2024, CHICAGO, IL
Necessary and Sufficient Coffee/ Embrace of Comfort
2024, CHICAGO, IL
Crema/ Coffee, Community, and Connection
2025, CHICAGO, IL
La Grange Art League/ Open Call
2024, LA GRANGE, IL
Bridgeport Art Center/ 12th Annual Bridgeport Art Center’s Art Competition
2024, CHICAGO, IL
Woman Made Gallery/ 25th International Open
2024, CHICAGO, IL
Union Street Gallery/ Small Works, Big Impressions
2024, CHICAGO HEIGHTS, IL
Fine Line Creative Arts Center/ Not Your Mother’s Quilt – Won Award of Merit
2023, ST. CHARLES, IL
The Land Conservancy / Art of the Land
BEST IN SHOW 2025
2025, 2023, 2022 HARVARD, IL
Elgin Fringe Festival/2024 Audience Favorite Award
2024, ELGIN, IL
Artist Projects
SOTA and Hamilton Schools/ Kindergarten Collaborative Mural
2025, LA CROSSE, WI
Side Street Studio Arts/ Elgin Fringe Festival 2025 Poster Artist
2024, ELGIN, IL
Dream Academy/ Mural Project
2024, ELGIN, IL
Spring Bird/ Woolgathering Magazine and Podcast
2017- 2022, DUNDEE, IL
St. Mary’s Catholic Church/ Woven Banners
2017, Aurora, IL
Forest of Peace/ Meditation Chamber: Mural and Installation
2016, SAND SPRINGS, OK
Lincoln Elementary School/ Collaborative Mural Project
2015, ELMHURST, IL
St. Therese of Jesus Catholic School/ School Mural Project
2014, AURORA, IL
Lincoln Elementary School/ Outdoor School Mural Project
2014, OAK PARK, IL
Oak Park Art Commission/ Mini – Mural Project
2013, OAK PARK, IL
Education
School of the Art Institute / Master of Arts in Art Education
August 2014 – December 2015, CHICAGO
Dean’s Scholarship Recipient, Clay Morrison Scholarship Recipient
California College of the Arts / BFA in Community Arts
August 2005 – July 2006, OAKLAND
Completed coursework towards degree.
Saint Mary’s College / BA in Anthropology and Women’s Studies
August 1999 – May 2003, NOTRE DAME
Minor in Studio Art, SISTAR Grant recipient, Magna Cum Laude