Anna Schuleit

Anna Schuleit is a young artist who brings back to life historic sites and structures through her original interpretations. In much of her work to date, she has honored the lives lived within mental health institutions by transforming abandoned facilities into moving, site-specific memorials. Employing such ephemeral elements as choral pieces and seas of flowers, her powerful public works are designed to endure not as objects, but as vivid memories for those who experience the multisensory events she orchestrates. Anna Schuleit was born in Mainz, Germany in 1974 and received a B.F.A. (1998) from the Rhode Island School of Design and an M.A. (2005) from Dartmouth College. She was a visiting artist at the Westborough State Hospital in Westborough, Massachusetts (2001-2004), an arts instructor at the Nightingale-Bamford School in New York (2005), and a consultant for the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Arts for Transit program (2005). She has been an artist-in-residence and fellow at such institutions as the Blue Mountain Center (1998), Banff Center for the Arts (1999), the Corporation of Yaddo (2005), and the MacDowell Colony (2002, 2006). She is now a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University.