About Anna

Anna Matejcek is a highly accomplished interdisciplinary artist with a passion for problem-solving and a love for approaching art creation in innovative and multifaceted ways. She received her MFA in Visual Art from Boise State University in May 2017 and has extensive experience in various mediums, including drawing, painting, printmaking, fibers, photography (analog and digital), ceramics, sculpture, design, and experimental media. Anna is also an experienced educator, having taught studio art since 2006 and in higher education since 2014. She is currently employed as a full-time art professor at Otero College in La Junta, Colorado, where she teaches various courses, including Drawing, Painting, 2D Design, 3D Design, Art Appreciation, and Art History.

Anna's artwork has been shown in over 35 national and international exhibitions and has won numerous juried awards, including "People's Choice" and "Best in Show." Her work has been selected to be a part of multiple permanent collections and catalogs, and she was the proud recipient of an Alexa Rose Foundation Grant. She earned three years of competitive Graduate Assistantships from Boise State University and was awarded a merit-based, four-year, full Trustee Scholarship and a spot in their Bascom Honors Program. In recognition of her outstanding teaching and artistic accomplishments, Anna was nominated for the "Faculty of the Year" award by her department chair at Otero College during the 2021/2022 school year.

In addition to her artistic and educational pursuits, Anna is a nature enthusiast with a particular fondness for wild and domestic animals. She is an avid bird watcher and has 367 unique species of North American birds on her birding life list. She enjoys camping, hiking, reading, and gardening, and lives and works in La Junta, Colorado, with her husband, two dogs, and guinea pigs.

Contact: anna.matejcek@otero.edu or annamatejcek25@gmail.com