Jennifer has been a teacher of ceramics and sculpture of students aged 5 to 65 and has enjoyed every minute of it. Currently she teaches all levels of ceramics and sculpture at the Loomis Chaffee School where she is also the Visual Art Department Head and Director and Curator of the Mercy Gallery. Jennifer has found that her own career as a professional artist has served to inform and bolster her experience as a teacher, each challenging and energizing the other. Jennifer feels strongly that we need to preserve craft traditions while at the same time stay on the cutting edge of technology, the one informing the other. She has enjoyed teaching drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture and glass, each with a global and art historical focus.

Jennifer’s time in the classroom is what she cherishes most in her position, but she has also enjoyed leading efforts within our community supporting diversity, equity and inclusion. For instance, this exhibition season, Jennifer invited four of her students of color to curate their own interpretation of the Buhl Collection for the Mercy Gallery, a school-wide BLM Self Portrait exhibition created by the community members identifying as black, launched a feminist celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Suffragette movement through an exhibition of 20 female mid-career artists, and mounted an exhibition tracing voter suppression in Mississippi from 1965 to the present. Jennifer’s goal is to strengthen the community and to help and challenge students to realize and communicate their vision through art.