email : jfjaffe@aol.com

RESUME:
EDUCATION
1979 New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, N.Y.- M.F.A.
1975 Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, Pa. - B.F.A.

GRANTS/RESIDENCIES/AWARDS
2007 Pa Council on the Arts Sculpture Fellowship Grant
2006 Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant
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
1996 New Forms Regional Grant - Painted Bride Art Center, Phila.Pa.
Yellow Springs Artist Residency, Chester Springs, Pa.
1995 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

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Springs, Maryland
2005 Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey
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.
1993 Douglas University, “Women Artists Series”, New Brunswick, N.J. ,catalog
1992 Fleisher Art Memorial, “Challenge Exhibition”, Philadelphia, Pa.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2003 - Memphis College of Art, "Somatic", Memphis, Tennessee
2002 - SOFA Chicago - "14 years of Virginia A. Groot Awards", Chicago, Illinois
2001 London Crafts Council Gallery, “On Paper”, London, England
2000 Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Rijswijk Museum, “Holland Paper Biennial 2000, Rijswijk, Holland
Monique Goldstrom Gallery, “Surrealism”, NY,N.Y.
1999 Philadelphia Art Alliance, “Leeway Foundation Grant Recipients”, Philadelphia, Pa.
Society for Arts and Crafts, “Social Fiber”, Boston, Mass
1998 Royal Scottish Academy of Edinburgh, “Trans-Atlantic Connections - 12 Americans”, Scotland vDelaware Art Museum, “Biennial ‘98”, Wilmington, Delaware vHillwood Art Museum, “Compulsive Obsessive Order”, Long Island University, Long Island, N.Y. v1997 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
1995 Snug Harbor Cultural Center, “In Three Dimensions-Sculpture of the 90’s”, Staten Island,
1994 Laguna Gloria Art Museum, “Self Possessed”, Austin, Texas, curated by Lynn Zelevansky,
1993 Delaware Art Museum, “Biennial 93”, Wilmington, Delaware

BIBLIOGRAPHY
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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 POSITIONS
1981 - Present Philadelphia College of Art, University of the Arts, Phila. Pa
1981-1987 - Lecturer - Taught Intermediate and Advanced Ceramics in the Craft Department and 3-Design in Foundation Depaptment
1987-1990 - Lecturer 111 - Freshman Scupture in the Sculpture Department, Molding and Casting and Ceramics in Crafts Depart, 3-D Design in Foundationa Department

ARTIST STATEMENT
My work explores symbolic mapping systems, giving visual form to abstract thoughts and feelings. Of particular interest are body mapping systems, such as medical anatomical illustrations, mapping of energy systems such as the chakra system, Tantric imagery and the mapping of sexual/spiritual energy, as well as visual language systems such as pictographs and hieroglyphic. My sculptures function as a mapping system that examines the relationships between early somatic sensations of the body and the symbolic order of language and culture. This map is explored and developed by the creation of hybrid forms- fusions of disparate parts, animate and inanimate, familiar yet strange, inviting recognition while remaining enigmatic and open. Body parts, tools, toys, and biological entities share edges and identities and echo early somatic experiences where the distinction between things are not yet clear, and where boundaries between identities are still fluid. These forms create an intuitive narrative that refers to visual, tactile, and auditory sensations which were felt before words could describe and thereby distance immediate experience. Longing, repulsion, fear, loss, curiosity, and discovery can all be located in a singular object or grouping of forms. My work has its roots in many historical influences. Archeology, Surrealism, Pop Art, and Animation have all influenced my work. The bold, child like, simplified, pneumatic, and sensual forms of Cartoon animation and a Pop sensibility are fused with the psychosexual overtones, disjunctures, and the dislocations of identity created by Surrealism and the fragmentation found in archaeological remains. These objects function like pre-verbal thoughts, leading in many directions. This indeterminacy or multi determined quality of an object, memory, text or icon is the subject of my work. A visceral mapping system develops, which contains bodily memories and an open system of signs that is multivalent, mysterious, and available to a multitude of meanings and associations.

Artist's Biography
Jeanne Jaffe is the recipient of fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mid Atlantic/NEA. the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Leeway Foundation,the Virginia A. Groot Foundation, New Forms Regional Grant from the Painted Bride Art Center, and was a sculpture discipline finalist for the Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 1995 and in 1998. Ms Jaffe has had artist’s residencies fellowships at Yaddo Artists Colony, Rutger’s Innovative Printmaking Workshop, New Jersey Printmaking Council, 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 Center Arts in Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Works by Ms. Jaffe have been exhibited both nationally and internationally at such places as The Kitchen, Delaware Art Museum, Hillwood Art Museum, Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island, Michener Art Museum, 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 state, and Pyramid Atlantic in D.C.

Ms Jaffe has worked on collaborative projects involving her sculpture at the Kitchen in New York City with video artist Peter Rose, at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia with dancer Leah Stein, and was commissioned by Arranged Introductions to create a piece in collaboration with Leah Stein for the Arts Bank in Philadelphia in 1995.

Ms. Jaffe’s work are included in many private and public collections in such places as Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, N.J., the Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, Pa., Abington Sculpture Garden, Abington, Pa., Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, New Brunswick, N.J., Mosby’s Publications, Phila., Pa., and Museum of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, N.Y.

Jeanne Jaffe 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.