Vanessa Adams is an artist from New Orleans, LA working in Pittsburgh, PA. Vanessa is a founding member of the New Orleans Community Printshop and worked for 7 years creating innovative community arts programming with a tight-knit collective of printmakers and photographers in New Orleans. Vanessa was a curator and contributing artist to the Slow Holler Tarot Deck, a collection of tarot cards by southern / queer artists. Currently Vanessa co-organzies the Queer Ecology Hanky Project with Mary Tremonte, and collaborates with their partner Andrea Narno on Birds of Paradise Press. They have done residencies at Women’s Studio Workshop, Penland School of Crafts, and Anchor Archive. They love listening to audiobooks, growing plants, and foraging for mushrooms in the woods of PA.
