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Variety
in materials fascinates Jennifer Van Winkle; varying her
techniques fuels her. The home for her versatility is
the visual cabaret called installation art. Her style
is pluralistic, with each installation having dense collections
of inter-related artworks, made from different mediums.
Van Winkle has a BFA (1996) from The School of the Art
Institute of Chicago. Her recent 2007 solo exhibition,
Betwixt & Between, from September 7-November
2, was at the Rawls Museum Arts (Courtland, VA) in the
museum's main gallery (1800 sqft). Van Winkle has also
had other solo exhibitions/ installations, since 2002
including: Doubleness: Peripheral Memories at Piedmont
Virginia Community College (Charlottesville, VA-2005),
Spielzeug/ Zeitgeist (Toys/Spirit of Our Times)
The Arts Center in Orange (Orange, VA-2004), and Die
Sammlung der Veränderung (A Collection of Permutation)
1708 Gallery (Richmond, VA-2002). She has exhibited
in curated, juried and invitational group exhibitions
in Virginia, Chicago and Kentucky.
In 2005 the University of Virginia Art Museum (Charlottesville,
VA) purchased two of Van Winkle's art pieces and Capital
One Collection (Chester, VA) purchased one artwork.
Her artwork is also in several private collections in
Virginia, Chicago, and New York. In spring 2005 Van
Winkle received a merit award to attend an artist residency
at the Contemporary Artists Center (North Adams, MA)
for 2006. She attended the residency in 2006 and returned
to North Adams, MA to work with master printmaker, Brandon
Graving in summer 2007. In 2000 Van Winkle was awarded
an Illinois Women's Works Scholarship from the Northwest
Area Arts Council (Illinois) and she also received her
third consecutive Community Arts Assistant Project Grant
(1998, 1999, and 2000) from the Chicago's Department
of Cultural Affairs.
Van Winkle's multivariate interests extend to education,
arts administration, and volunteering. She is the currently
a consultant and the Education Program Coordinator for
the University of Virginia Art Museum's Education Department.
From 2003-2005 she was an adjunct faculty member of the
Virginia Commonwealth University's Art Foundation Program
(Richmond, VA) and from 2001-2005 she was an adjunct faculty
member of the Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC).
From 2001-2003 she founded and directed Summer Arts @
the Museum (UVA Art Museum), a summer arts academy for
4th-12th graders-the program is now entering its eighth
year.
Since 1996 Van Winkle has taught and conducted workshops
with the numerous art centers and foundations in Chicago
and Virginia, including: Triton College (River Forest,
IL), Evanston Art Center (Evanston, IL), Statewide Artists
Workshop Program supported by the Virginia Museum of
Fine Arts (Richmond), Amazement Square/The Rightmire
Children's Museum (Lynchburg, VA), Shanti Foundation
for Peace (Evanston/Chicago), Access to the Arts sponsored
by The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Community
Architexts (Chicago) and Creating Pride (Chicago).
Van Winkle is currently an emeritus board member of 1708
Gallery, an artist-founded, non-profit gallery in Richmond,
VA. She served for two years as the Education and Outreach
Chair, and curated the exhibition, To Be Determined
in 2006 for the gallery.
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