Jennifer Colten, Artist

WPC. Section 15. [138.15] ,1993 by Jennifer Colten

Jennifer Colten is an artist and educator living in St Louis Missouri. After receiving her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, she relocated to St Louis to teach photography at Washington University Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.  

Central concerns within Colten’s artistic practice reflect upon the representation of landscape, and examine interlacing issues surrounding social and environmental injus-tice. A common thread of resiliency considers how issues link the ‘social space’ to the ‘environmental space.

Colten has received numerous awards including a M-AAA NEA Fellowship in Photogra-phy, an International Arts Program Network Award encouraging cultural learning and arts exchange. In 2014 Colten was awarded a RAC Artist Support Grant to further pho-tographic scholarship and community work in St Louis, and a Creative Activity Re-search Grant from the Sam Fox School to support the initial production of the Wash-ington Park Cemetery project. Receiving a Ferguson Academic Seed Fund Grant from Washington University in 2016 has allowed this exhibition to come to fruition.