Anna Chapman

Limits & Sanctuary, 2020-2021

Originally titled My Grandmothers and My Granddaughters, this series is a meditation on generational interconnectivity, how we are a bridge between the lineage of women that have come before us and the ones who will come after us. I believe this is necessary groundwork to render a person capable of mobilizing toward learned, livable futures that are rooted in reciprocal ecologies. In an era of mass extinction and global warming, I’m compelled to imagine multi-species entanglement on local scales and bring awareness to the fact that we are much more than ourselves; we are a consequence of  others and we have a consequence upon others. This entanglement extends beyond the human body and into the earth and plant kingdoms, from whom we receive shelter and nourishment and to whom our body ultimately goes back to. Appreciating the cycle of life we are embedded in, I  accept the limits of my body. And with that, this piece is an ode to the grief of our fate, but also a form of praise for the capacity to feel so much and be entangled with so many.

— Anna Chapman

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Anna Chapman is an artist and educator passionate about the intersection of art, education, ecology and healing. Believing that interdisciplinary approaches to art and education are necessary to meaning-making in the context of the Anthropocene, her work is inspired by post-colonial, post-human, and indigenous perspectives, aiming to mobilize toward reconciliatory relationships to place, community, materiality, and voice. She received a BFA in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012, a Masters of Arts in Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022, and is currently pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts at UMass Amherst. Anna currently teaches through the Center for Art Education and Sustainability, the Continuing Education department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at Umass Amherst.