About
A native of New Jersey, Anna Haulenbeek Huskey attended Ohio University and here discovered the Dance department after which she received her B.A. in Modern Dance performance and choreography at Mills College. After finding out she was more comfortable creating in a private venue rather than performing she taught dance with the Santa Cruz County Cultural Council in the SPECTRA artist in school programs. She also taught dance in different adult school classes throughout Santa Cruz County, and Cabrillo College community services.
She found another way to be behind the scene and still create. Drawing and painting with her young children she discovered that she loved to draw and paint. The past thirty years she has been drawing and painting with inspiring teachers from which Michelle Giulvezan-Tanner, Melinda Cootsona and Jerry McGlauglin influence her the most.
She has participated in the Santa Cruz County Open Studios for 2021 and 2022. She exhibited at the San Francisco DeYoung Open Exhibition in 2020, the Eloise Pickford Gallery, and First Friday Santa Cruz (2012).
Anna’s studio ready for Open Studios 2022.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Scotts Valley Library, Scotts Valley, CA., October-December, 2023.
2022 Open Studios Art Tour, Santa Cruz, CA.
2021 Open Studios Art Tour, Santa Cruz, CA.
2012 Azhar, Santa Cruz, CA., “First Friday Five Years of My Work”
Group Exhibitions
2020 deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA., “Open Exhibit – On the Edge”. October 10, 2020 to January 3, 2021.
2013 Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA., “The Drawing Salon”
2013 Vino Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA., “First Friday Faces and Places”
2012 Michaelangelo Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA., “Day of the Dead”
2012 Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA., “Santa Cruz Watercolor Society – Best of the West (Honorable Mention)”
2009 Pajaro Valley Art Center, Watsonville, CA.
2009 Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA., “Saladarity: an Amalgamation of Sprouting Artists”
2009-2013 Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA.
Contact Anna Haulenbeek Huskey at 831-818-7054.