Ann Elizabeth Thiermann, MFA in Drawing & Painting is a classically trained landscape, portrait and mural artist painting both on location and in her Santa Cruz studio. Her pastel and acrylic paintings from California and abroad provide the visual resources for her murals and hang as fine art in national and international collections. Her paintings have received Best of Show, Grants, and her graduate thesis, mixed media of pastel and acrylic, was published in American Artist.