WORKROOM 2024 Resident Artist Spotlight: Fay Jenson
Fay Jenson is an educator, mixed-media artist and photographer who incorporates captured imagery into quilts, weavings, and paintings. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and received her National Board Certification in Visual Art in Winter 2023.
Fay is a CAPE partner in the Collaboration Laboratory (CoLab) program as an art teacher at Taft High School. During WORKROOM, she plans on experimenting with different photo transfer processes, morphing photographs into textiles, to re-imagine the image using fiber arts.
This summer Fay will be graduating from St. Francis University with a Masters in Science: Teaching and Learning Best Practices. Fay wishes to continue researching the relationships and complex dynamics between developmental growth/diversity among youth, visual art and the impact on the brain, and the structure of public education.
In Fay’s mixed-media artistic practice, she explores how shadow and color are layered in the world, highlighting the innate beauty and complexity of ephemeral moments. The work she creates challenges viewers to question what they are viewing, blurring the lines between real and imaginary. Her teaching philosophy is centered in culturally responsive pedagogy, uplifting student voices through transforming complex ideas into physical forms.
