Annea Lockwood is a composer, music educator, sound artist, and performance artist who is deeply inspired by water and sound and how both things change and unfold over time. She gained fame (or infamy) when she created a song cycle using dilapidated pianos that should strategically place in various environments. The pianos were abandoned, sunk, beached, drowned, and even set on fire.
I discovered the photos of her pianos first, during some classical music research. These inspired me to do some more digging into the artist who uses them.
Annea Lockwood is a force of nature and a force in nature and is still composing music today.
I am artist/educator living and working in Columbus, OH. I have been exhibiting art around the country since graduating from Kent State University with an art degree in 1998. In 1999, I started working with GCAC's Children of the Future Program as arts facilitator in an after school setting in Columbus City Schools. Then I worked with Mayor Coleman's Cap City Kids and then with the Westside Boys and Girls Club facilitating arts programs for their teen center. Eventually, I earned my teaching certificate and Master Degree from Ashland University. I have been teaching elementary art in the Olentangy School District for the last 17 years. I am currently the artist/educator at Freedom Trail Elementary School in Olentangy. When I am not teaching or making art, I enjoy reading, researching history and folklore, and exploring various local waterways with my sons.