ANNA RG
she/they, Lenapehoking/Brooklyn, arobertsgevalt@gmail.com, 802-310-2146
EDUCATION
2024. MFA, Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts; Sculpture
2009. BA, Wesleyan University, with honors; Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies; English
2008-2015. traditional music (fiddle, ballad singing) apprenticeships in Appalachia (Kentucky)
2020-2023 : Medical Leave of Presence; severe long covid
SELECTED RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2026-2027. NEW INC Member : Social Architecture
2026. Granted Artist, Access for Small Arts Partnerships Program, NYU Center for Disability Studies
2026. Loghaven Residency, Knoxville
2025. Issue Project Room Artist In Residence
2025. Recess Art, Session Artist
2025. New York State Council of Art Grant, Bed Piano Project
2024, 2016. MacDowell Residency
2023. NYC Women in Media Fund/New York Foundation for the Arts, for Songs of Sick-Land project
2019, 2016. Virginia Center for Creative Arts Residency
EXHIBITIONS
2025. “SICK (MUSIC) CENTER” at Recess Art
2023. “Galway Sick Center,” Tulca Festival, Ireland, curator Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
2023. “Red Hook Sick Center” at Stage Presence : Bard MFA Thesis Show, Red Hook New York
PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS
Anna & Elizabeth
2012-2019. Carnegie Hall (Zankel Hall), Big Ears Festival (Knoxville), NPR Tiny Desk Concert (DC), Cafe Oto (London), National Sawdust, The Newport Folk Festival, BBC Radio2, Cambridge Folk Festival (UK), High Museum of Art (GA)
Concert Length Pieces
2025. “Ghost Barrels,” Recess Art, collaboration w/ Lu Yim and Funto Omojola, 40-minutes, movement, text, sound collage, projections, shadow puppets, about 20th c. pianos made for “invalids”
2025. “Air Change Per Hour,” Issue Project Room, composer, director, performer, for 6 channels and 3 air purifiers, with sonic descriptions by Charles Eppely, access dramaturg Alison Kopit, sonic contributions from 15 disabled performers
2019. “Red Thread #1,” Hirshhorn Museum, composer for hourlong piece with community participation by 25 traditional ballad singers, with red rope score
2018. “The Moon In Her Fan,” CubeFestival (Virginia Tech Festival of Spatial Sound), director, co-composer, writer, animator, hourlong multi-channel theater work about ballad singer Texas Gladden, w/Linda Buckley
instrumentalist/accompanist (highlights)
with Lonnie Holley, Jim White, Susan Alcorn, Paul Wiancko (Kronos Quartet), Glen Hansard, Timo Andres, Ellen Fullman, Horse Lords, Cochemea Gastelum, Yaz Lancaster, Leo Abrahams, Rhys Chatham, Brian Harnetty, Molly Joyce, Sarah Hennies
at Hirshhorn Museum, Beacon Theater, “Wexner” Arts Center, Liquid Music Series, Cafe Oto, Issue Project Room, The Stone, National Stawdust, Roulette Intermedium, Fridman Gallery
SELECTED COMMUNITY ORGANIZING WORK
2025. Sick Music Study Group, host, facilitator, curriculum-builder, 40-person disabled study group
2024. Artists In Resistance NYC, co-founder, disabled-led air purifier library, covid safety advocacy
2024, 2023. New York Long Covid Memorial at Green Wood, lead artist, with Naming the Lost/CityLore
2020-2022. Body Politic, event team, moderator, long covid support group
SELECTED CURATION
2025. Sick Ancestor Tribute Show, w/ Open Doors Reality Poets, Gelsey Bell, James Ian, study group
2021. Spoonie Afternoon, w/ Morgan Bassichis, Ezra Benus, Dan Fishback, Yo Yo Lin, Una Osato
2019. Sound American, guest editor, w/ Sarah Hennies, Meredith Monk, Peggy Seeger, Henry Flynt, Kite
2019. Smithsonian Year of Music, programing at Hirshhorn Museum, w/ Susan Alcorn, Luke Stewart
2018. Appalachian Happening, Big Ears Festival, Knoxville TN, guest curator of traditional music
2013-2018. Baltimore Crankie Festival, founder, host, annual festival of scrolling illustrations, puppets
RECORDING
Anna & Elizabeth
2018. The Invisible Comes to Us, Smithsonian Folkways, co-producer & arranger
“A radical expansion of what folk songs are supposed to do,” The New Yorker
2017. Hop High / Vineyard 7inch, Free Dirt Records
2012. Sun To Sun, Anna & Elizabeth, self-released
as session musician, records by Lonnie Holley (Jagjaguwar), Xylouris White (Bella Union), Glen Hansard (Anti-), Henry Jamison (Color Study), Zane Campbell
SELECTED TEACHING
guest lecturer: Princeton University; Erasmus University, Rotterdam; Warren Wilson College, NC; Emory University, GA; Union College, NY; Hamilton College, NY; East Carolina University, NC; University of Kentucky, KY; Berea College, KY; Richmond University, VA; Bucknell University, PA; University of North Carolina, NC; Hampshire College, MA