Anna Newman lives and works in Reno, Nevada. Leaving a successful career in Silicon Valley to focus on a career in art, she relocated to the high desert. Anna is a project-based artist whose work resonates with history even as she creates fresh objects and images with beauty and power of their own. Her documentary films have been exhibited at Sundance and many other film festivals as well as museums in the United States and Canada, including Design Exchange, Toronto, Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland, and Stanford Libraries. Anna holds a MFA from the University of Nevada, Reno and is a BA graduate of Mills College. Recent exhibitions include SCENE, a collaborative exhibit in Seoul, South Korea, and co-curation of The Library Is Open, a Sparks, NV exhibition centered on the book and reading. This fall she will co-curate Clothesline '26, the fourth annual survey of fiber art presented in Reno, NV. She will present sculptural work in a solo show and artist talk at Truckee Meadows Community College in December, 2026.