Sculptor Setha Low conceived of AnthroArt as a way to integrate her experiences as an anthropologist and to express cultural understanding through sculpture and ceramic art. She earned a BA from Pitzer College in Claremont, California and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work has been exhibited at Art in Odd Places and New Century Artists Gallery in New York City, Guild Hall and Walk Tall Gallery in East Hampton; the Celadon Gallery in Water Mill; Ashawagh Hall in Springs, Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton; Lyceum Gallery in Riverhead; and the Crazy Monkey Gallery and Prudential Gallery in Amagansett. She has been awarded Guggenheim, Getty Center, Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, and is currently Professor of Environmental Psychology, Anthropology, Geography, and Women’s Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and President of the American Anthropological Association.

Her sculpture draws upon living in diverse cultural settings, her interest in embodied space and her sensitivity to ethnoaesthetics. It combines organic forms with smoke-fired or raku finishes and touches of metal, leather or mesh.  Her free standing and wall forms incorporate reflected light on smooth or carved surfaces to create rhythm and movement. Her bodies express the struggles people face in resolving the contradictory demands of contemporary life.