BIO
Jennifer Manzella is an artist and printmaker who’s print-work is mainly created through relief (woodcut and linocut) and etching processes (copper etchings). Based on places real and imagined, her prints often depict cityscapes against natural settings in layered compositions or are a combination of abandoned industrial structures with buildings, old trailers, and cars.
Jennifer has been involved in a variety public art projects, gallery installations, and artists residencies and workshops such as one in the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, Printmakers Open Forum in Oxford, PA, and Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Deer Isle, Maine. Her prints have been exhibited in numerous juried national and international exhibitions including two with the International Print Center in New York City, Southern Graphics Council, the Atlanta Print Biennial, and the Miniature Print Exhibition at the Manhattan Graphics Center. In 2018, Jenn collaborated with BYO Print member Katie Van Vliet to create a screen-printed public art installation, which was displayed in Center City Philadelphia at the Ludlow in East Market.
She’s been an art educator for over 10 years and received an MFA in printmaking at The University of Georgia. Born in Wilmington Delaware but raised in Connecticut, she has lived in many different places on the east coast. Jennifer relocated back to Philadelphia, her adopted home, in the summer of 2016 after living in Athens, GA for 12 years. She currently teaches printmaking courses at Arcadia University.
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RESUME
The University of Georgia, Masters of Fine Arts in Printmaking, 2007The University of Georgia Study Abroad in Cortona, Italy, Graduate Assistant, 2005
The University of Massachusetts Boston, Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, 1998
Teaching Experience:
2016–Present Adjunct Instructor of Art, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
2013-2016 Full time Lecturer, The University of North Georgia, Gainesville, GA
2009-2012 Full-time Instructor of Art, Gainesville State College, Gainesville, GA
2007-2009 Adjunct Instructor of Art, Gainesville State College, Gainesville, GA
2007-2009 Adjunct Instructor of Printmaking/Foundations, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2005-2007 Teaching Assistant, Instructor of Record, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Summer 2005 Teaching Assistant, The University of Georgia, in Cortona, Italy
Solo Exhibitions & Collaborative Projects:
2019 City Between Two Rivers, Black Moth Gallery, Ardmore, PA
City Blocks, Rosendale Gallery, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
2018 City Revealed; Public Installation, East Market, National Real Estate Devt, Philadelphia
2017 Structurally Sound, Random Tea Room, Philadelphia, PA
2010 City Walls Mural Project, Sponsored by Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Time Spent Sleeping; Time Spent Awake, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2006 The Nature of Things, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
2005 Temporal Landscapes, Hot Corner Gallery, Athens, GA
1998 New Works, First Unitarian Church, Cambridge, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2020 Luxury Boom, Hamilton Street Gallery, Bound Brook, NJ
Arts Community Relief Exhibition, Black Moth Gallery, Ardmore, PA
Magnum Opus, Wanderlife Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Atlanta Print Biennial, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, GA
Ink It: Contemporary Print Practices, Black Rock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD
The Poetics of Decay, Brooke Lanier Fine Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Sanctuary, PMOF: Exchange Portfolio 2019, Women’s Studio Workshop, Kingston, NY
4th New York International Miniature Print Exhibition, Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC
2018 Vibrant Affects, Jefferson Hospital, In-Liquid Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
New Now, In-Liquid New Member Exhibition, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA
Unintended Consequences, Brooke Lanier Fine Art Studio, Philadelphia PA
2017 New Prints/Winter, Juried Exhibition, International Print Center New York, NYC, NY
UGA Alumni Show, Gallery 72, Atlanta, GA
Southworks, Oconee Cultural Center for the Arts, Watkinsville, GA
Works on Paper- NJC 2017, LBI Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Long Beach Island, NJ
Transferred Impressions, Black Moth Gallery, Ardmore, PA
2016 Tiny Universe Two / Invitational Exhibition, Gallery@ Hotel Indigo, Athens, GA
Out of Print – BYO Group show, B-Square Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Landscape, Sense of Place, SITE: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Killing the Cure, Random Tea Room, Philadelphia, PA
An Elegant Statement, Asheville Bookworks, Asheville, NC
Lyndon House 41st Annual Juried Exhibition, Athens, GA
Southworks, Oconee Cultural Center for the Arts, Watkinsville, GA
2015 Detour Thru My Mind, ATHICA, Athens GA
UNG Faculty Art Exhibition, Quinlan Center for Visual Art, Gainesville, GA
2014 Athens Arcana: A Contemporary Tarot, Invitational, ATHICA, Athens, GA
Somewheres & Nowheres: New Prints, International Juried Exhibition, IPCNY, NYC
New Prints Benefit and Silent Auction, International Print Center New York, NYC, NY
2nd ATHICA Mystery Triennial / Invitational Exhibition, ATHICA, Athens, GA
Tiny Universe / Invitational Exhibition, Gallery@ Hotel Indigo, Athens, GA
2013 ATHICARDS: A Creative Deck of Athens Art, ATHICA, Athens, GA
GSC Faculty Biennial Exhibition, Roy C. Moore Gallery, Gainesville, GA
2011 The Last Hoorah, Blue Tin Gallery, Athens, GA
ATHICA Mystery Triennial / Invitational Exhibition, ATHICA, Athens, GA
Scholarships/ Workshops/ Grants / Residencies:
2020 Artist in Residence for July 2020, Shenandoah National Park, SNP, Virginia
2019 Print Camp 2019, Studio Tech, Printmakers Open Forum, Oxford PA
2018 Print Camp 2018, Printmakers Open Forum, Oxford PA
2017 Zea Mays Printmaking, Wood Engraving workshop with Barry Moser
2016 Barnes – de Mazia Certificate Scholarship, Barnes Foundation, 2016-2017
Haystack School of Crafts Technical Assistant Scholarship, June 11th –June 24th, Deer Isle, ME
Best in Show 2D Award, Southworks, Oconee Cultural Center for the Arts, Watkinsville, GA
2015 Haystack Open Studio Residency, May 31st – June 12th, Deer Isle, ME
Haystack Workshop/Japanese Woodblock Prints – June 28th – July 11th, Deer Isle, ME
BYO Print, Studio Residency, July – August, Philadelphia, PA
2014 BYO Print, Studio Residency, July 9th - August 8th, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Stonington Residency, July 1st – 31st, Stonington, ME
2012 Lower Eastside Print Shop, Studio Residency, June 15th - July 31st, New York City, NY
2011 Lower Eastside Print Shop, Studio Residency, July 1st -31st, New York City, NY
2010 Brooklyn Arts Council & Metrotech BID, City Walls Mural Project, Brooklyn. NY
2007 Andy Warhol Foundation Grant, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005 Teaching Assistantship, Lamar Dodd School of Art UGA, Athens, GA
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Study Abroad Scholarship, UGA, Athens, GA
Additional Experience:
2016-Present Active member of BYO Print, Printmaking Cooperative in Philadelphia, PA
2017 Volunteer for International Southern Graphics Council Conference, Terminus, Atlanta GA
2016 Volunteer for Mural Arts Philadelphia, September – November 2017
2014 Contributing researcher on an upcoming article about the El Camino Santiago with anthropologist Dr. Joseph Manzella. Walked the pilgrimage route called the Camino Frances approximately 700 kms.
2014 Installation Technician on Advice From the Oceans/ Athens Celebrates Elephant Six Exhibition, ATHICA, Athens, GA, September 2014
2010 – 2011 Contributing member and founder of a small artist cooperative gallery called Blue Tin Artist Collective in Athens, GA.
2009 – 2011 Instructor of printmaking classes at the Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens GA. I also organized two printmaking workshops annually for the community during this time along with the set up and general upkeep of the printmaking studio.
2006 Biked from Portland, Maine to St. John, New Brunswick in Canada approximately 500 miles.
2003 Thu-hiked the entire Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine – 2, 173 miles
The University of Georgia, Masters of Fine Arts in Printmaking, 2007The University of Georgia Study Abroad in Cortona, Italy, Graduate Assistant, 2005
The University of Massachusetts Boston, Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, 1998
Teaching Experience:
2016–Present Adjunct Instructor of Art, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
2013-2016 Full time Lecturer, The University of North Georgia, Gainesville, GA
2009-2012 Full-time Instructor of Art, Gainesville State College, Gainesville, GA
2007-2009 Adjunct Instructor of Art, Gainesville State College, Gainesville, GA
2007-2009 Adjunct Instructor of Printmaking/Foundations, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2005-2007 Teaching Assistant, Instructor of Record, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Summer 2005 Teaching Assistant, The University of Georgia, in Cortona, Italy
Solo Exhibitions & Collaborative Projects:
2019 City Between Two Rivers, Black Moth Gallery, Ardmore, PA
City Blocks, Rosendale Gallery, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
2018 City Revealed; Public Installation, East Market, National Real Estate Devt, Philadelphia
2017 Structurally Sound, Random Tea Room, Philadelphia, PA
2010 City Walls Mural Project, Sponsored by Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Time Spent Sleeping; Time Spent Awake, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2006 The Nature of Things, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
2005 Temporal Landscapes, Hot Corner Gallery, Athens, GA
1998 New Works, First Unitarian Church, Cambridge, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2020 Luxury Boom, Hamilton Street Gallery, Bound Brook, NJ
Arts Community Relief Exhibition, Black Moth Gallery, Ardmore, PA
Magnum Opus, Wanderlife Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Atlanta Print Biennial, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, GA
Ink It: Contemporary Print Practices, Black Rock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD
The Poetics of Decay, Brooke Lanier Fine Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Sanctuary, PMOF: Exchange Portfolio 2019, Women’s Studio Workshop, Kingston, NY
4th New York International Miniature Print Exhibition, Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC
2018 Vibrant Affects, Jefferson Hospital, In-Liquid Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
New Now, In-Liquid New Member Exhibition, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA
Unintended Consequences, Brooke Lanier Fine Art Studio, Philadelphia PA
2017 New Prints/Winter, Juried Exhibition, International Print Center New York, NYC, NY
UGA Alumni Show, Gallery 72, Atlanta, GA
Southworks, Oconee Cultural Center for the Arts, Watkinsville, GA
Works on Paper- NJC 2017, LBI Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Long Beach Island, NJ
Transferred Impressions, Black Moth Gallery, Ardmore, PA
2016 Tiny Universe Two / Invitational Exhibition, Gallery@ Hotel Indigo, Athens, GA
Out of Print – BYO Group show, B-Square Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Landscape, Sense of Place, SITE: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Killing the Cure, Random Tea Room, Philadelphia, PA
An Elegant Statement, Asheville Bookworks, Asheville, NC
Lyndon House 41st Annual Juried Exhibition, Athens, GA
Southworks, Oconee Cultural Center for the Arts, Watkinsville, GA
2015 Detour Thru My Mind, ATHICA, Athens GA
UNG Faculty Art Exhibition, Quinlan Center for Visual Art, Gainesville, GA
2014 Athens Arcana: A Contemporary Tarot, Invitational, ATHICA, Athens, GA
Somewheres & Nowheres: New Prints, International Juried Exhibition, IPCNY, NYC
New Prints Benefit and Silent Auction, International Print Center New York, NYC, NY
2nd ATHICA Mystery Triennial / Invitational Exhibition, ATHICA, Athens, GA
Tiny Universe / Invitational Exhibition, Gallery@ Hotel Indigo, Athens, GA
2013 ATHICARDS: A Creative Deck of Athens Art, ATHICA, Athens, GA
GSC Faculty Biennial Exhibition, Roy C. Moore Gallery, Gainesville, GA
2011 The Last Hoorah, Blue Tin Gallery, Athens, GA
ATHICA Mystery Triennial / Invitational Exhibition, ATHICA, Athens, GA
Scholarships/ Workshops/ Grants / Residencies:
2020 Artist in Residence for July 2020, Shenandoah National Park, SNP, Virginia
2019 Print Camp 2019, Studio Tech, Printmakers Open Forum, Oxford PA
2018 Print Camp 2018, Printmakers Open Forum, Oxford PA
2017 Zea Mays Printmaking, Wood Engraving workshop with Barry Moser
2016 Barnes – de Mazia Certificate Scholarship, Barnes Foundation, 2016-2017
Haystack School of Crafts Technical Assistant Scholarship, June 11th –June 24th, Deer Isle, ME
Best in Show 2D Award, Southworks, Oconee Cultural Center for the Arts, Watkinsville, GA
2015 Haystack Open Studio Residency, May 31st – June 12th, Deer Isle, ME
Haystack Workshop/Japanese Woodblock Prints – June 28th – July 11th, Deer Isle, ME
BYO Print, Studio Residency, July – August, Philadelphia, PA
2014 BYO Print, Studio Residency, July 9th - August 8th, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Stonington Residency, July 1st – 31st, Stonington, ME
2012 Lower Eastside Print Shop, Studio Residency, June 15th - July 31st, New York City, NY
2011 Lower Eastside Print Shop, Studio Residency, July 1st -31st, New York City, NY
2010 Brooklyn Arts Council & Metrotech BID, City Walls Mural Project, Brooklyn. NY
2007 Andy Warhol Foundation Grant, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005 Teaching Assistantship, Lamar Dodd School of Art UGA, Athens, GA
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Study Abroad Scholarship, UGA, Athens, GA
Additional Experience:
2016-Present Active member of BYO Print, Printmaking Cooperative in Philadelphia, PA
2017 Volunteer for International Southern Graphics Council Conference, Terminus, Atlanta GA
2016 Volunteer for Mural Arts Philadelphia, September – November 2017
2014 Contributing researcher on an upcoming article about the El Camino Santiago with anthropologist Dr. Joseph Manzella. Walked the pilgrimage route called the Camino Frances approximately 700 kms.
2014 Installation Technician on Advice From the Oceans/ Athens Celebrates Elephant Six Exhibition, ATHICA, Athens, GA, September 2014
2010 – 2011 Contributing member and founder of a small artist cooperative gallery called Blue Tin Artist Collective in Athens, GA.
2009 – 2011 Instructor of printmaking classes at the Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens GA. I also organized two printmaking workshops annually for the community during this time along with the set up and general upkeep of the printmaking studio.
2006 Biked from Portland, Maine to St. John, New Brunswick in Canada approximately 500 miles.
2003 Thu-hiked the entire Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine – 2, 173 miles
