Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Ana Popescu is a Romanian-American multidisciplinary artist based in Providence, Rhode Island, working sculpturally with a focus on ceramics. She earned her BFA from Pratt Institute before co-founding an immersive event company in New York City, where she created site-specific installations and curated performance programs under the moniker A.Pop. She later directed large-scale branded productions across the U.S. for major advertising agencies.
In 2022, Popescu was awarded the Friends of Arrowmont and Trudy and Henry Gillette Sculpture Scholarships at the Art Students League of New York. She completed a residency at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in 2023, received an Anderson Ranch Scholarship in 2024, and earned her MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2025, supported by the RISD Fellowship, Windgate Foundation Scholarship, and Graduate Ceramic Award.
She has exhibited in over two dozen shows across New York City, Bucharest, and Providence. In 2026, she will be Artist-in-Residence at St. Andrew’s School in Barrington, RI, and will begin teaching ceramics at The Steel Yard in Providence.