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Jeanne Jaffe
1994 2nd Place recipient
Lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bio
Jeanne Jaffe is the recipient of fellowship grants from the Gottlieb Foundation, the Independence Foundation, Mino Artist Residency in Japan, the NEA, the Mid Atlantic/NEA, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Leeway Foundation, the Virginia A. Groot Foundation, and was twice a sculpture discipline finalist for the Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Ms. Jaffe has had artist's residency fellowships at Yaddo Artists Colony, Rutger's Innovative Printmaking Workshop, New Jersey Printmaking Council, Schulykill Center, Yellow Springs Institute, and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is a Professor and Coordinator of the Sculpture Department at the University of the Arts. She has also taught at Tyler School of Art and Swarthmore, as well as in a multi-disciplinary program at the Annenberg Cneter for Arts in Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Works by Ms. Jaffe have been exhibited both nationally and internationally at such places at The Kitchen, Delaware Art Museum, Hillwood Art Museum, Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island, Michener Art Museum, Abington Art Center, The Royal Scottish Academy of Edinburgh, Scotland, Museum Rijswijk in Holland, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, Germany, Language Plus in Quebec, London Craft Council Gallery in England, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and Fleischer Art Memorial in Philadelphia. Her work is currently represented by Gallery Joe in Philadelphia and has been reviewed extensively, including in Art in America, The New York Times, and Sculpture Magazine.
Ms. Jaffe has conducted numerous lectures and workshops to present her work including at Dundee School of Art in Scotland, California College of Art and Craft, SUNY, New Paltz, Moore College of Art, Women's Studio Workshop in New York, and Pyramid Atlantic in D.C.
She holds a B.F.A. from Tyler School of Art and an M.F.A from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Marginal Utility, Philadelphia, Pa.
2009 Mino Washi Museum, Mino, Japan
2006 Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Springs, Maryland
2005 Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, N.J.
2002 Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, Pa.
American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, Georgia
2001 Abington Art Center - Sculpture Garden – Installation
2000 Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pa.
1999 Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, Pa.
D.F.N. Gallery, N.Y., N.Y. (Collaborative Project)
1998 The Kitchen, New York, N.Y. , (Collaborative Project)
Southwest Crafts Center, San Antonio, Texas
1997 Language Plus, Quebec, Canada
Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, Pa.
Lehrman Arts Center Gallery, Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburgh, Pa
1996 A.I.R. Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Franklin & Marshall University, Lancaster, Pa.
Hand Workshop , Richmond, Va.
1995 Dieu Donne Gallery, N.Y., N.Y.
Manchester Craftsmens Guild, Pittsburgh, Pa.
1992 Fleisher Art Memorial, “Challenge Exhibition”, Philadelphia, Pa.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Marginal Utility, “Four Quartets”, Philadelphia, Pa.
Schuylkill Center, “Animal” Animus”, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Abington Art Center ,” Forever Young”, Abington, Pa.
Art Museum, “Nine Sculptors”, Philadelphia, Pa.
Michener Art Museum, “Pulp Function”, Doylestown, Pa.,
Philadelphia Art Alliance, “revolution”, Philadelphia, Pa.
2008 Painted Bride Art Center, “Am the Rhythm, Philadelphia, Pa.
Delaware Valley Art Alliance, “Body and Soul”, Narrowsburgh, NY
2007 Fuller Craft Museum, Brocton, Mass
2003 Memphis College of Art, “Somatic”, Memphis. Tennesse
2002 SOFA. Chicago, “Visual Perspectives-14 Years of Virginia A. Groot Awards”, Chicago
2001 London Crafts Council Gallery, “On Paper”, London, England
Art Center ,”Processing the Signal”,, Abington, Pa.
Painted Bride Art Center, “Facing Each Other: Prints Concerning Identity”, Phila.
2000 Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Rijswijk Museum, “Holland Paper Biennial 2000, Rijswijk, Holland
Monique Goldstrom Gallery, “Surrealism”, NY,N.Y.
New Jersey Center for the Arts, “On the Horizon”, Summit, New Jersey
1999 Philadelphia Art Alliance, “Leeway Foundation Grant Recipients”, Philadelphia, Pa.
Society for Arts and Crafts, “Social Fiber”, Boston, Mass
Henry Street Settlement, “Funkshun”, N.Y., N.Y.
Kutztown University, “Four Sculptors”, Kutztown, Pa.
1998 Royal Scottish Academy of Edinburgh, “Trans-Atlantic Connections - 12 Americans”
Scotland
Delaware Art Museum, “Biennial ‘98”, Wilmington, Delaware
Hillwood Art Museum, “Compulsive Obsessive Order”, Long Island University, Long Island,
Fleisher Art Memorial, “Challenge at 20”, Phila., Pa.
Philadelphia Art Alliance, “In the Heart of the City”, Phila., Pa.
1997 Painted Bride Art Center, “Precious Objects”, Phila., Pa.
A.I.R. Gallery, “Generations”, N.Y., N.Y.
Gallery Joe, “Virtual Objects and Embodied Images”, Philadelphia, Pa.
1996 Henry Street Settlement, “Multiples”, New York, N.Y
Allentown Art Museum, Group Exhibiton, Allentown. Pa.
Dieu Donne Galllery, “Paper in Disguise”, N.Y, N.Y.
Hand Workshop, “B.A.B.Y.”, Richmond, VA., catalogue
Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University, “25 Years of Feminism”, New Brunswick, N.J.
Gallery Joe, “Small Works”, Philadelphia, Pa.
1995 Snug Harbor Cultural Center, “In Three Dimensions-Sculpture of the 90’s”, Staten Island,
N.Y.80 Washington Square East Gallery, N.Y.U., “Small Works Show”, New York, N.Y.
1994 Laguna Gloria Art Museum, “Self Possessed”, Austin, Texas, curated by Lynn
Zelevansky, K & E Gallery, “Boxes”, New York, N.Y.
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, “Outside From Within”, Philadelphia, Pa.
Payne Gallery, Moravian College,”Contemporary Sculpture”, Bethlehem, Pa., catalog
Allegheny College, “Issues of Abstraction”, Meadville, Pa., catalog
Chester Springs Studio, “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”,Chester Springs, Pa
University of Delaware,” Biennial”, juror: Geno Rodriguez, Newark, Delaware
S.S. White Building, “Sum and Parts “, Philadelphia, Pa.
1993 Delaware Art Museum, “Biennial 93”, Wilmington, Delaware
Musee du Pays et Val de Charmey, “Triennial 93”, Charmey, Switzerland
Collaborations
1999 DFN Gallery, “Syntax”, collaborative Project with Peter Rose, Ny, NY
1998 Royal Scottish Academy of Edinburgh,”Animal, Mineral, Vegetable”, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Kitchen, , Virtual Objects & Embodied Images”, collaborative project with Peter Rose, NYC
1995 Philadelphia Arts Bank, “Dreamfield”, a collaborative installation/performance with dancer
Leah Stein, commissioned by Arranged Introductions
Painted Bride, collaboration with dancer/performer Leah Stein
Grants, Residencies, Awards
2010 Independence Foundation Artist Fellowship
Artist Residency, Schuylkill Environmental Center
2009 Japan Artist Fellowship, Mino Artist Residency, Mino, Japan
2007 Pa Council on the Arts Sculpture Fellowship Grant
2006 Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant for Excellence
2001 Printmaking Council of New Jersey - Artist Grant Fellowship
1999 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts - Sculpture Fellowship
Leeway Foundation Grant- Outstanding Accomplishment in Sculpture, Philadelphia, Pa.
1998 Mid/Atlantic Foundation - Artist as Catalyst Grant
Sculpture Discipline Finalist - Pew Fellowships in the Arts
1996 New Forms Regional Grant - Painted Bride Art Center, Phila.Pa.
Yellow Springs Artist Residency, Chester Springs, Pa.
1995 Sculpture Discipline Finalist - Pew Fellowship in the Arts
Mid Atlantic/NEA - Artist Residency Rutgers Innovative Printmaking Workshop
1994 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant, Chicago, Illinois
1993 Mid Atlantic/NEA- Visual Artist Fellowship
1991 Yaddo - Artist Residency - Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
1990 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts -Visual Artist Fellowship
1980 National Endowment for the Arts Sculpture Assistantship Grant
Bibliography
Brown, Gerard, “Image Unconscious”, Philaelphia Weekly, Sept. 9-16, 1998
Csaszar, Tom, “Jeanne Jaffe”, Sculpture Magazine, Sept.,1997
Fallon, Roberta, “Art”, Philadelphia Weekly, May 10, 2000
“A Vault of Joe”, Philadelphia Weekly, May 15, 2002
Hagen, Susan, “Not Your Average Joe”, City Paper, May 15, 2002
Harrison, Helen, “Obsessive Compulsive Order”, The New York Times, Sept. 27, 1998
Kaufman, Leslie, ‘Philadelphia - V isual Fringe”, Sculpture Magazine, Jan.-Feb., 1999
Leonard, Pamela Blume, “Paper, Skill, Vision and a Bit of Mystery” Atlanta Journal
Constitution, June 28, 2002
Maksymowicz, Virginia, “High, Low, and In-Between”, Sculpture Magazine, March, 2001
Nugent, Jeanne, “No Loss for Words”, Philadelphia Weekly, June 28, 1995
Seidel, Miriam, “Jeanne Jaffe at Gallery Joe”, Art in America, May 2000
Rice, Robin, “Big Mama”, City Paper, Nov. 12, 1999
“Body Parts, City Paper, April 25, 1997
“Resilience”, City Paper, Jan. 17, 1997
“I Dream of Geons”, City Paper, Aug. 16, 1996
“Outside From Within”, Hand Paper Magazine,vol. 9, Summer 1994
“Outside In”, City Paper, Feb. 11, 1994
“Best Bets: Art”, City Paper, Jan. 14, 1994
“Darkness and Light”, City Paper, Dec. 11, 1992
“Personal Gods”, City Paper, October 1991
Sozanski, Edward, “Another Dimension”, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 31, 2002
“Artists, Works in Progress” Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 12, 1999
“Evocative Sculptures, Poetic Constructions”, Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 12, 1999
“Fringe Festival”, Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept.18, 1998
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“Small Scale Show Reveals Deeper Meanings, Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug. 30, 1996
“In Search of the Spiritual in Art”,Philadelphia Inquirer, May 6,1994
“On Galleries”, Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb.11, 1994
“Sculptor, Printmaker, and Potter at Fleisher”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov.27, 1992
“On Galleries”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 6,1992
“Emerging Artists at Port of History”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 13, 1991
“Delaware Art Museum”, The Philadelphia Inquirer”, Oct. 26, 1989
Bullard, CeCe, “Paper Works on Display”, Richmond Times-Dispatch, July, 1996
Cope, Penelope. “Biennial ‘89”, Wilmington News Journal, Oct.8, 1989
Donohoe, Victoria, “Ancient Spirit in Modern Context”, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 1, '94
Mangravite, Andrew. “Seven Musers on Mythology”, After Dark, Oct. 30, 1991
Spieler, Krista, “Spirituality and Ritual in Paper Art”, Hand Paper Magazine, Vol. 7,
No. 2, Winter 199
Wellinghoff, Jasmina, “On the Cutting Edge”, San Antonio Express - Fiesta’ July
1998
Publications & Catalogs
“In Three Dimensions-Women Sculptors of the 90’s”, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten
Island, N.Y.
“Trans-Atlantic Connections”, Royal Scottish Academy of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
‘Obsessive Compulsive Order”, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Long Island, N.Y.
“On Paper: New Paper Art”, London Crafts Council, Merril Publishers, London, England
“Paper and Water”, Museum Rijswijk, Holland
“B.A.B.Y.”, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, Virginia, 1996
“On the Horizon”, New Jersey Center for the Arts, Summit, New Jersey
“Through the Heart of the City”, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pa.
“Across Borders/ Sin Fronteras”, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.
“Self Possessed”, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
“Contemporary Sculpture Directions”, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pa.1994
“Papier 1993” , Musee du Pays et Val de Charmey, Charmey, Switzerland, 1993
“The Art and Craft of Papermaking”, Quarto Press, London,England, 1992, by Dawson
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition, P.C.A., Harrisburgh,Pa.,
1990
Public Collections & Commissions
Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, N.J.
Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, Pa.
Abington Sculpture Garden, Abington, Pa. - 2001 - 2003
Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
Suny, New Paltz, New York, public commission - 1999
Wolf, Block,Schorr & Solis-Cohen Law Firm
Mosby Publications, Philadelphia, Pa.
Museum of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, N.Y.
Teaching
1981 - Present University of the Arts, Professor of Sculpture, Philadelphia, Pa. 2002 Swarthmore College, Swathmore, Pa. - Visiting Assistant Professor - Sculpture
1996 & 1994 Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, Pa. - Adjunct Faculty
1990 - 95 Annenberg Center, University of Pennsylvania, Arts in Education, Philadelphia, Pa.
Workshops & Lectures
2002 Haystack, Deer Isle, Maine
2000 Galludette University, Washington, D.C.
Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pa.
1999 Suny New Paltz, New Paltz, N.Y.
Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
1998 Dundee School of Art, Dundee, Scotland
Haystack, Deere Isle, Maine
1997 Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pa.
1996 Pyramid Atlantic, Washington, D.C,
1994 Douglas University, New Brunswick, N.J.
1993 California College of Art and Craft, Oakland California
NCECA Conference, San Diego, California
Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, Pa.
1992 International Sculpture Conference, Philadelphia, Pa.
1991 Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE.
1990 Leopold Hoesch Museum, Duren, Germany
Maryland Art Institute, Baltimore, MD.
Education
1979 New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, N.Y.- M.F.A.
1976 Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, Pa. - B.F.A.
Organizational Positions
Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority - member Art Advisory Board
Philadelphia Sculptors Guild – Board Member
Haystack School of Craft – Board Member –
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