Bio

Anna Pancoast (they/she) is a self-taught artist working with textiles, mixed-media, and oil painting outside Boston, MA. Their creative practice is grounded in permaculture gardening and community building for climate justice. They are interested in how we transform what we have into what we need. Combining textile and paper scraps with color from plants and earth, their work provides healing, care, and safe spaces where we can stretch and challenge ourselves to transform in turn.

Pancoast studied astrophysics at the University of California Santa Barbara and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. However, their experience with equity and inclusion initiatives in the sciences led to increasing concern about climate change. In 2018, Pancoast left astronomy research to focus on climate justice work, building a permaculture food forest garden, raising two young children, and further developing their creative practice. They currently work with the Extinction Rebellion Boston Art Working Group and organize community art builds with Mystic Open Studio in Arlington, MA.