Anna Whitted is an Appalachian contemporary artist from Southwest Virginia. Holding a BFA in Kinetic Imaging from Virginia Commonwealth University, her professional art career began with experimental animation, video, sound, and extended tech media.
Since graduating from VCU in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic helped shape a new path for Whitted’s career–a turn from digital mediums to traditional mediums. For the past 5 years, Whitted has created several large-scale, abstract oil paintings experimenting with color and texture to craft ethereal dreamscapes. Many of these spiritual paintings investigate the ancient qualities of Appalachia, inviting the viewer to experience the essence of sacred Appalachian nature through expressive visual energy. At the core, Whitted’s abstract work has explored defining personality through the utilization of texture, tone, and mood.
In 2024, more traditional techniques entered her practice through portraiture and still life observation, including botanical symbolism. Since joining the Art Lab in March 2025, experimental multimedia excavations have come to the surface of her work as a result of the upgrade in size of her work space. She looks forward to future projects investigating memory, nostalgia, childhood, visual storytelling, stored spiritual energy, reincarnation, and death.