I’m thrilled to be interviewing Jeanne Jaffe today because she is not the typical artist that I usually meet. She has been creating art for 40 years and continues to put out more work than most people half her age. She is a true inspiration for folks who have something to say.
Jeanne is a multi-disciplinary artist working in installation, sculpture, and stop motion animation. Her work is influenced by an interest in language, literature, psychology, and history and explores how we construct i...
I’m thrilled to be interviewing Jeanne Jaffe today because she is not the typical artist that I usually meet. She has been creating art for 40 years and continues to put out more work than most people half her age. She is a true inspiration for folks who have something to say.
Jeanne is a multi-disciplinary artist working in installation, sculpture, and stop motion animation. Her work is influenced by an interest in language, literature, psychology, and history and explores how we construct identity, our world, and our value systems. Jeanne began her professional career studying archeology and anthropology, examining how people create and express meaning and values through objects, rituals, and behaviors.
Presently, Jeanne has a very mind boggling and profound exhibit at Spinello Projects in Miami. Titled "Before I Wake." The solo exhibition spans her work from 1997 to 2024.
Jeanne was a Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and was a visiting artist for five years at Xian Academy of Fine Arts in Xian, China. She is the recipient of fellowship grants for outstanding artistic development from the Gottlieb Foundation, for support of her automatronic installation about the life of Nicola Tesla from the National Endowment for the Arts, an artist residency in Mino Japan, as well as grants from the Mid Atlantic/NEA, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Independence Foundation, the Leeway Foundation, among others.
Most recently she was awarded an Innovative Artist Fellowship from the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County and a project artist residency from the Deering Estate. Works by Jeanne have been exhibited nationally and internationally at such places as Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Museum, Phila. Pa; Seokang Museum of Art, Busan, Korea; Mino Washi Museum, Mino, Japan; The Royal Scottish Academy of Edinburgh, Scotland; Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, N.J.; American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, Georgia; Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pa; Woodmere Art Museum, Phila. Pa; Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE; Abington Sculpture Garden, Abington, Pa; Rowan University Gallery, Glassboro, N.J; Marginal Utility Gallery; and Gallery Joe in Phila, Pa.
She also has shown at LNS Gallery, Bridge Red, Doral Art Museum, Coral Springs Art Museum, IS Projects, Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Deering Estate, the Mexican Consulate, the Arts Warehouse, Edge Zones, IPC Artspace and Collective 62.
Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, The New York Times, and Sculpture Magazine among others.
