Anna Warner came to UVA from Nashville, TN (before Nashville, she lived in South Carolina, Florida, and two separate times in Charlottesville, VA.) As you can see, she keeps ending up in Charlottesville. She’s quite alright with that phenomenon because being here now as a college student, she is connected with a beautiful community of artists and has discovered a deep-rooted passion for film photography. During her eight years of middle school and high school in Nashville, Anna danced, sang in chamber choir, tried her hand in a couple school musicals, and made a lot of drawings. She received her high school’s Fine Arts Award, which is given to one graduating senior, at a time when she still thought she wanted to be a doctor. That plan changed when art classes at UVA revolutionized her world, and film photography stole her heart. Anna loves film photography because of its inherently intimate process, and how that has remained stoic in a world overrun with images everywhere 24/7. She is also fascinated with philosophy and theory behind photography. Now, Anna is majoring in Studio Art, aspiring to make bodies of fine art photographs that will one day appear in books and galleries. Her creativity is also expressed through embroidery, and she is interested in exploring the potential of different art forms merging – so she is very excited about being a part of the Miller Arts Scholar program and becoming more integrated with an interdepartmental art community at UVA.