Desiree, gouache, 20in h x 16in w

Anna Mastropolo is a textile artist, jewelry designer, and gouache/mixed media painter. She creates hand-sewn and embroidered wearables, jewelry, and large-scale gouache paintings with patterned papers and textiles. She uses hand-knit pieces in her works and paints abstract and portrait compositions. Mastropolo also creates video work, and her concepts revolve around social justice. Anna is inspired by the Pattern and Decoration Movement, Mickalene Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, Lisa Anne Auerbach, and Alexander McQueen, to name a few. Mastropolo attended RISD and received her Bachelor’s in Painting from University of Hartford and master’s in fine arts, from VCFA. She has received awards from the Collinsville Chalk Walk, Tunxis Community College for Painting, and the Westfield Art Walk, painting competition. She has taught Pre-K, elementary and middle school art in the Ct area including Manchester Elementary, Old Lyme CT Middle School and Center School New Haven and has been in the teaching field since 2016. She shows and sells her clothing and jewelry designs at Arts Festivals and galleries/boutiques. Anna is very active in community art projects, helping to create murals for Autism Awareness, face painting, painting traffic boxes, exhibiting her paintings on vacant storefronts, and having her paintings projected onto city buildings to promote Suicide Prevention.  Anna’s work is currently exhibited at Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, Connecticut.