Anna Margaret Davidson

Anna Margaret Davidson

Founder of Cornell EcoArts, Davidson has an interdisciplinary teaching and research-based art practice grounded in the ecological arts. Her expeditionary field-based artwork investigates topics in climate change, natural resource use, and ecological memory. Anna teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. She holds an MFA in visual art and a PhD in plant science from UC Davis. Davidson exhibits nationally and internationally and has participated in artist residencies including the Arctic Circle, Djerassi, Tropical Lab-Singapore, and was an Artist at Sea on the Atlantis research vessel funded by the National Science Foundation. As a recipient of a Research Grant in the Arts from the National Endowment, she studies the value of integrating art in environmental field courses. Her current project focuses on the Mohawk River Watershed in NY. Anna lives in upstate NY wither her husband and two children.