Anna has created stunning poster and button designs for this year’s festival based on her original work, "Godmother Willow", showcasing her signature bold and captivating style. You may also recognize her work from “Going Places,” the 2024 Fringe Audience Favorite in Visual Art!

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Anna Lentz is a visual artist and arts educator living in Dundee, IL. She studied anthropology, women’s studies, and studio art at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN as well as community art at California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA. She earned her MA in Art Education at School of the Arts Institute, Chicago, IL. Her research interests include community-based art education, hospitality, and vernacular art. Anna currently processes her emotions and life happenings through painting and sewing vibrant colors and shapes.  For Anna, sewing with scraps and threads is meditative, magical, and comforting.