About

Ann Gumpper resides at the western corner of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota where she is Resident Scenic Designer for Lyric Opera of the North (LOON), recently part of the award-winning creative team for Decameron Opera Coalition’s Tales From a Safe Distance.

An inspired collaborator, she has created scenery for theatre, opera and ballet across Minnesota including Minnesota Ballet, The Duluth Playhouse and NorShor Theatre, Wise Fool Theatre, Twin Cities Ballet, Skylark Opera, Minnesota Orchestra, Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra, University of MN Duluth (UMD) Theatre and UMD Opera Studio.

Prior to arriving in the Northland, Ann designed for Summer Repertory Theatre in Santa Rosa, CA; New Jersey Shakespeare Festival in Madison, NJ; Theatre-by-the-Sea in Matunuck, RI; University of Virginia and Dogwood Dell Amphitheater in Richmond VA, Arts Encounter Theatre Troupe and The Boarshead Theatre in Lansing, MI; and was Charge Painter at Theatre Virginia, Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, NY, Summer Circle Theatre in East Lansing, MI, and  Northcott Theatre in Exeter, England.

Related creative projects include murals, decorative painting, book illustration and color consultation.

• AAUW (American Association of University Women)
  
  • Created Here featured artist (2018)
• Depot Foundation Artist Award (2014)

• MFA, Scenic Design: Virginia Commonwealth University,
  
  • School of the Arts
• BA, Michigan State University,
  
  • Residential College in the Arts and Humanities