Anna K. Jaehnert is a visual artist with a PhD in Visual & Performing Arts from the University of Texas at Dallas. She also has a Master's in German from Middlebury Language Schools and a Bachelor from Concordia University Wisconsin.

Anna’s approach to art-making is playful and experimental. And she has a passion for staging visual interpretations of literature. In 2021 she created Faust I —  a series of overpainted photographs based on Goethe's famous book Faust I. Then, in 2023, she released the Spinning Stories to Gold series, which recreated scenes from some of the best known Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales through staged photography, and also spotlights the 19th century female storytellers who made story contributions and helped the Grimms.

Anna’s Spinning Stories to Gold series was featured in the ATC gallery, TX, in fall 2023 (solo exhibition), and her comedic, whimsical photography series The Friendly Neighbor was exhibited in the S/PN Gallery, TX, the Texas Woman's University Gallery, and other galleries. In spring 2023, Anna presented an exciting gel prints series Sophie Scholl at the RAW conference in Dallas, which shone a light on the young German heroine and resistance fighter who took a bold counter-cultural stance against her government during World War II.

Besides working as a photographer and visual artist, Anna is passionate about community building and teaching film, photography, and German. In the past few years she has taught at the University of Texas at Dallas and Concordia University Wisconsin. One of her goals is to encourage students to be courageous, inquisitive, and to enjoy fellowship with their peers.

Link to Anna‘s solo exhibition at the ATC Gallery in Dallas:
https://bass.utdallas.edu/news/grimm-brothers-exhibition/