Jeanne Jaffe is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, stop motion animation, video, and drawing who recently moved to Forida. She is Professor Emeritus at University of the Arts in Philadelphia and has been a visiting artist at Xian Academy of Fine Arts in China. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant for the installation “Elegy for Tesla”, a Gottlieb Foundation grant for sculptural excellence, PA Council on the Arts grant, among many others. Her work inspired by an interest in language, literature, history, and psychology. It explores how identity is shaped from early childhood onward by the influences of stories, histories, cultural narratives, and the value systems embedded in them.
