Jeanne Jaffe is the recipient of fellowship grants from the Gottlieb Foundation, the Independence Foundation, Mino Artist Residency in Japan, and the National Endowment for the Arts, 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 residencies fellowships at Yaddo Artists Colony, Rutgers’s Innovative Printmaking Workshop, New Jersey Printmaking Council, Schuylkill Center, Yellow Springs Institute, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is a Professor of Sculpture 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 Pennsylvania Academy of Art Museum, Delaware Art Museum, Hillwood Art Museum, Mino Washi Museum in Japan, Michener Art Museum, The Royal Scottish Academy of Edinburgh, Scotland, Museum Rijswijk in Holland, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, Germany, London Craft Council Gallery in England, In the New York, Philadelphia area, her work has been exhibited at Marginal Utility, Gallery Joe, the Painted Bride, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and Fleischer Art Memorial. Her work 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. among many others.
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.
GRANTS/RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS
2011
Multidisciplinary Innovative Grant for installations, University of the Arts
Abington Sculpture Garden commission - “Fairytales Revisited- Mirror, Mirror”
2010
Independence Foundation, Fellowship Grant
Schuylkill Environmental Center- Artist Residency and Exhibition
2009
Mino Artist Residency, Mino, Japan
2007
Pa Council on the Arts Sculpture Fellowship Grant
2006
Gottlieb Foundation Individual Sculpture Grant for creative development
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
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
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”, Philadelphia, Pa.
Philadelphia Art Alliance, “In the Heart of the City”, Philadelphia, Pa.
1997
Painted Bride Art Center, “Precious Objects”, Philadelphia, 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 Exhibition, 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, curator, Lynn Zelevansky, K & E Gallery, “Boxes”, New York, N.Y.
