Alanna Baird lives in Saint Andrews, New Brunswick where she maintains a material based artistic practice, working primarily in metal sculpture. She completed 3 years of Mechanical Engineering (UNB) before studying Ceramics (NB Craft School - 1978). She is also an accomplished printmaker and was invited to participate in an international printmaking portfolio for exhibition at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Centre’s conference Altered Environments (2022). She is the recipient of the Margaret Woodson Nae Fellowship (2022) from the Sheila Hugh McKay Foundation. She has been awarded multiple Creation A Grants from ArtsNB. Alanna won a Canadian National Sculpture Competition (2014). Alanna has had solo Canadian exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in the United States, Australia and Bermuda. Her Public Art Commissions are in Alberta, Ontario, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick. Alanna’s sculptural work has scattered through private collectors around the globe. The first work she created in recycled tin was featured by the American Crafts Council in celebration of 1993, The Year of Craft in North America. Alanna’s iconic tin fish have since become an invasive species speaking their messages of global environmental issues.