Jennifer Schmitt works in multiple mediums exploring the movement inherent in the human body while also playing with abstraction in monotypes. She lives and works in South Portland, Maine.
In 2021, Jennifer won the Movement is Life Award at the Palm Springs Dance Festival for three pastel drawings that celebrate dance and motion. In November 2022, she completed an artistic residency in São Paulo, Brazil at the Cris Ferrantini Art Studio and Life Model School. Working with founder Juliano Hollivier, a professional life model, she furthered her work connecting the human figure and the abstraction of motion. Her artwork belongs to private national and international collections.
She has studied at DeCordova Museum School, Zea Mays Printmaking Studios, Fine Arts Work Center, Maine College of Art.
RESIDENCIES
2023/2024 Wintertide Retreat, Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY
2023 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Open Door Weekend, Deer Isle, ME
2023 Echo Lake Artists Retreat, Fayette, ME
2022 Artistic Residency, The Cris Ferrantini Art Studio & Life Model School, São Paulo, Brazil
2021 Wintertide Retreat, Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Texture, River Arts Gallery, Damariscotta, ME
2023 Holiday Exhibition, Ocean House Gallery, South Portland, ME
2023 Muito Alem da Parada (Far Beyond the Parade), Objectos do Olhar Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2023 Highlight, River Tree Gallery, Kennebunk, ME
2022 12: A Small Art Show, Maine Audubon, Falmouth, ME
2022 Brush with Nature: A Plein Air Painting Event & Auction, Maine Audubon, Falmouth, ME
2022 RUMPUS 2022, Engine, Biddeford, ME
2022 New Work, River Arts Gallery, Damariscotta, ME
2022 ArtPM, Buoy Gallery, Kittery, ME
2022 Black & White, River Arts Gallery, Damariscotta, ME
2021 ALONE/TOGETHER, Solo show at Local 188, Portland, ME
2021 Remembering Together: Marking Lives COVID-19, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA
2019 6×6 Member Exhibition, Running with Scissors, Portland, ME
2016 81st Regional Exhibition of Art & Craft, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2016 4th National Monotype/Monoprint Juried Exhibition, Monotype Guild of New England, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
2014 Periodic Table Printmaking Project, Art.Science.Gallery, Austin, TX
2012 Periodic Table Printmaking Project, AIGA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Periodic Table Printmaking Project, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Periodic Table Printmaking Project, Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, PA, Creator and Curator
AWARDS
2021 Recipient, Movement is Life Award, Palm Springs International Dance Festival, Palm Springs, CA
