Ann Rosenthal
Ann Rosenthal (1950–) brings to communities over thirty years’ experience as an artist, educator, and writer. Her work examines the intersections of nature and culture through timely issues, including climate change and biodiversity. Ann teaches through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Pittsburgh. She received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999.
Rosenthal’s essays and work on eco/community art have been published in several journals and anthologies, most recently in Regenerative Infrastructures (New York: Prestel, 2013); “Atomic Legacy Art” in the Women Environmental Artists Directory Magazine, and the online, peer-reviewed Ecopsychology Journal. She co-edited with Amara Geffen, Aviva Rahmani, and Chris Fremantle the anthology, Ecoart in Action: Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities (New Village Press, 2022).
She is the Founding and Managing Director of Learning Urban Nature through Arts, and lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2020, Rosenthal received the “Woman of Environmental Art” Celebrating Women in Conservation Award from PennFuture. Her work is informed by social and deep ecology, ecofeminism, and social justice.