About
Anya is from Santa Monica, California, and is a graduating senior Studio Art major at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She currently resides in Bologna, Italy. Anya mainly paints in oil and watercolor but hopes to work with more sculptural mediums in the future.
Novel
This black and white portrait is of Amani, one of the protagonists in Anya's fantasy/sci-fi novel that she hopes to have published soon. Through this novel, Anya traverses the topics of female empowerment, social justice, and sustainability.
Publications & Exhibitions
Students Against Sexual Assault Magazine Cover Page
The Procession was featured as the cover page of SASA's 3rd Issue of btwn sheets in May 2021.
Glass Box Gallery UCSB
A collection of Anya's oil paintings were virtually displayed in UCSB's Glass Box Gallery in Fall of 2020 in a show titled "Together We Can..."
Spectrum Summer Edition
Mortality's Monthly Union was featured in UCSB's Spectrum Literary Journal summer edition in September 2021.
https://issuu.com/spectrumliteraryjournal/docs/spectrum_summer_interior_proof_2
Undergraduate Research & Creative Studies
Oil paintings The First Supper and Those Within the Wheel are accompanied with short stories by Anya as a part of her undergraduate creative research grant.
https://urca.ucsb.edu/colloquium/humanities-social-sciences#Fine%20Arts