Anna Mastropolo is a textile artist, jewelry designer, and gouache/mixed media painter. She creates hand-sewn, painted, and embroidered wearables, jewelry, and large-scale gouache paintings with patterned papers and textiles that she sells regularly. She has her garments for sale at Bloom Boutique in New Haven and Spectrum Art Gallery and Artisan Store. She uses hand-knit pieces in her works and paints abstract and portrait compositions. She also creates video work and her concepts revolve around social justice. She is inspired by the Pattern and Decoration Movement, Mickalene Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Celia Pym, Versace, Stella McCartney, and Alexander McQueen, to name a few. She has shown her work in over 50 gallery exhibitions, breweries, and craft fairs. She attended RISD, University of Hartford, and VCFA, receiving her Bachelor’s in Painting from University of Hartford and Masters in Fine Arts from VCFA. She has been awarded winner of the Collinsville Chalk Walk, a Painting award from Tunxis Community College, and winner of a painting competition at the Westfield Art Walk. She taught art in public schools for six years. She taught at the Sustainable Farm School in West Hartford, Pulaski Middle School in New Britain, Augusta Lewis Troup School in New Haven, and Lyme Old Lyme Middle School and Pre-K in Old Lyme, CT. She has taught private art lessons, an embroidery workshop at Creative Arts Workshop, has been involved with Save our Schools for our Kids Autism Awareness Mural programs, and has provided private face painting services.