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"RECOLLECTION" By Jen Blazina
A Large-Scale Installation in the
Centre Grove Schoolhouse at WheatonArts


Recollection is a large-scale installation exploring personal and communal educational history.

Inspired by found objects in abandoned schools, education, and collective memory, the installation is comprised of fabricated stainless steel and screen-printed cast glass as well as a screen-printed, antique blackboard. It pays homage to education, creates a conduit for collective memory, and accesses the audience’s memory of their own school years. The classroom setting connects the viewer to a universal educational experience and evokes a feeling of having slipped into the past…a calm moment of night when classes are not in session.

Jen Blazina is a working artist exhibiting nationally and internationally. A professor at Drexel University, she resides in Philadelphia. She received her M.F.A. in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1996. In 2006, she had a solo exhibition at the Scuola di Grafica in Venice, Italy, the Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia and Marx Saunders Gallery in Chicago.

Currently she is exhibiting Recollecting as a solo exhibition at the Pictura Gallery in Holland and Radford University in Virginia. Among her accolades, Jen has been awarded numerous residencies and grants. Her past residencies include: Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY; Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA; The Millay Colony for the Arts in NY; The Creative Glass Center of America in Millville, NJ; and Scuola di Grafica in Venice, Italy.

Some of her awarded grants include: Leeway Foundation Grant, an Individual Artist Grant through the Maryland State Arts Council, and fellowship through the Independence Foundation Grant.

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