Anna Kruse is currently an Assistant Professor of Art in Ceramics at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. She received her Master of Fine Arts at the State University of New York at New Paltz. In 2019 she completed a Post Baccalaureate at the Oregon College of Art and Craft and in 2016 she obtained her B.A. with honors in Psychology and Studio Art from the College of Wooster. In 2021 she was nominated and awarded the International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture. Anna has participated in residencies at Township 10, Arrowmont Pentaculum, and Peninsula College. She was also the Visiting Artist Scholar and Teacher at Southern Oregon University. In 2025 she was named an emerging artist in Ceramics Monthly. Anna has shown her work throughout the contiguous United States.