Exhibitions, Commissions, & Grants
2024
Artist in residence Berkshire Botanical Garden
Cover and feature article in the February issue of An Artful Mind
2023
Solo show, Leonhardt Galleries, Berkshire Botanical Garden - Alchemy and Innocents, Glass sculpture, Botanical art - A Garden of Magical creatures.
2022
Awarded the Martha Boschen Porter Grant
Dare to be Square NY❤️ASBA Small Works Exhibition Group show
The Craft - The Joyce Goldstein Gallery - Group show.
Awarded grants from Urban Glass, NY and from Corning Museum of Glass.
HOORWA River Arts - Group show — Williamstown, MA - Glass Sculpture
2021
Contemporary Botanical Art from NYBG - Carter Burden Gallery NYC - Group Show
HOORWA River Arts - Group show — Williamstown, MA - Glass Sculpture
2020
Commissioned for the Berkshire Botanical Garden to create LUCY’s GARDEN, featuring topiary animals and other 'live' sculptures on paper. Donated by Lucy and Nat Day.
Commissioned book cover for the award-winning play THE GOOD MOTHER PROJECT by Karen Cellini, an American multidisciplinary live performance artist, producer, writer, and activist.
HOORWA River Arts - Group show — Williamstown, MA - Glass Sculpture
2019
L’Atelier Berkshire Gallery - Group show - Glass Sculpture
SEEING GREEN - Group Botanical exhibition - Connecticut Cancer Foundation
HOORWA River Arts - Group show — Williamstown, MA
2018
Anastasia Traina's Fairytale Botanical World, Leonhardt Galleries, Berkshire Botanical Garden - Solo show — Lenox, MA
Amuse Gallery - Group show — Chatham, NY
Walk with Us, TSBA Botanical Art Exhibition - Group show — NY/NJ Trail Conference — Mahwah, NJ
HOORWA River Arts - Group show - Williamstown, MA
Milne Public Library - Group show - Williamstown, MA
2017
HOORWA River Arts - Group show - Williamstown, MA
Milne Public Library - Group show - Williamstown, MA
Stonover Farm Barn Gallery - Group show - Lenox, MA
Reviews and articles
https://galleries.page.link/1i23F
https://tricornernews.com/compass-ae-art/fairyland-here-earth
www.berkshireeagle.com/arts_and_culture/arts-theater/anastasia-traina-alchemy-and-innocents-berkshire-botanical-garden/article_24243914-f341-11ed-ae93-632697a32781.html.
Featured in Dare to be Square NY❤️ASBA Small Works Exhibition catalog 2022
Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine July/ August 2021
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/anastasia-traina-fairy-tale-world-takes-root-at-the-garden,529925
“The Language of the Flowers” written by Ms. Traina for The Botanical Artist - Journal of the Society of Botanical Artists — Spring Issue 2018
https://www.nynjtc.org/sites/default/files/documents/TW-Fall2018-web.pdf
Books
Bitsy and Raff, a children’s book Illustrated by Ms. Traina and written by David Caudle
The current project, The Curious Tales of Thimble Tarn, was written and illustrated by Ms. Traina.
Blog
https://afunnybunnypicture.wordpress.com
EDUCATION
New York Botanical Garden’s Certificate program, graduated in 2019 with honors, Botanical Illustration.