Anna WehrweinAssistant Professor in Visual Arts

Anna Wehrwein makes paintings and drawings that consider the shared language of personal and color relationships. Her large oil paintings and intimate drawings reimagine the domestic space and painting tableau as a site of creative action and communal agency. Originally from the Boston area, Wehrwein received her MFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Tennessee and her BS in Art and BA in English/Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Przekroj, West Branch Literary Journal and ArtMaze Magazine, among others. She has exhibited widely, with recent exhibitions at Pentimenti Gallery,Thierry Goldberg, Troost Gardens, Collar Works, Charlotte Street Foundation, and Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University as well as being featured on Platform Art and the White Columns Artist Registry. She has been an artist in residence at the Cloud House at Dreamsong Gallery, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Anderson Ranch Art Center, and MacDowell, for which she was awarded the Josephine Mercy Heathcote Fellowship. She is the co-founder of stop-gap projects, an artist-run gallery and curatorial project which she directed from 2021-2025. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory in 2025, Wehrwein was an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Missouri.