TERESA JAYNES

EDUCATION
1983 MFA Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1980 BFA University of Texas, Austin, TX


ARTIST INSTALLATIONS and SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 
Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the Blind, The Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

2014 
The Moon Reader, The Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
The Moon Reader, Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Philadelphia, PA
The Moon Reader, Magill Library, Haverford College, Haverford, PA

2006 
Provenance, Abington Art Center, Abington, PA

2001 
Red Maids, The Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, PA

2000 
Gossip’s Manual, Islip Art Museum in East Islip, NY

1998 
Small Measure, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Small Measure, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, PA

1995 
Patriots, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Patriots, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA 
Faye’s Thrift, Taller Puertorriqueno, Philadelphia, PA

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 
American Impressions, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ

2003 
from this to that, Nexus/Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA

2002 
NATURAL HISTORY, Aaron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL

2002 
Anti-Archival, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

1999 
Civic Responsibility, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

1998 
Artist Craft, Chester Springs Studio, Chester Springs, PA
Seven Women Sculptors, Puffin Gallery, New York, NY
Delaware Biennial, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

1997 
Objects and Souvenirs: Artist Multiples, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1995 
In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the 90’s, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY

1993 
Homer Jackson: High Flying, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA


ARTIST BOOKS
2014 
The Moon Reader, self-published with support from the Visual Culture Program at the Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

2004 
The Last Favor, co-published by Rosenbach Museum & Library and Borowsky Center for Publication Arts at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2003 
A Wag’s Progress, published by Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Springs, MD

SELECT GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2014
Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Exhibitions and Public Interpretation program, in conjunction with the Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

2013
Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2002
MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH

2000
Ragdale Foundation Residency, Lake Forest, IL

1999
Pew Fellowships in the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1998
MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
Art Matters Artist Fellowship, New York, NY


SELECT PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

  • Artist talks: Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, 2014; Haverford College, 2014; Tyler School of Art, Temple University, 2014 and 2000; University of Texas at Austin, 2011; The University of the Arts, 2011; and Moore College of Art and Design, 2004

  • Arcadia University, “Arts Management and Leadership: Philagrafika,” 2014

  • New York University, Arts Education Masters Program, “Philagrafika 2010: Effective Collaboration,” New York, NY, 2010

  • IMPACT International Print Conference, “Philagrafika 2010: International Collaborations,” Bristol, UK, 2009

  • Temple University, Tyler School of Art, “Philagrafika 2010,” Philadelphia, PA, 2009


PUBLICATIONS

  • Exhibition catalogue essay - “This could be the Start of Something Big,” in The Graphic Unconscious, Eds. Jose Roca and Jennie Hirsch. Philadelphia: Philagrafika/The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, 2011

  • Journal Articles - Regularly contributed articles from primary research on urban folklore in Works In Progress, ed. Debora Kodish. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Folklore Project, 1995 - 2000


RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, November 2014 - October 2016
The Library Company Of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

GUEST LECTURER AND ADJUNCT FACULTY, Fall 2015, Spring 2016
Tyler School of Art, The Art of Translation, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA University of the Arts, Professional Practices, Senior Seminar Program, Philadelphia PA

INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, August 2012 - April 2013
Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

GUEST LECTURER AND ADJUNCT FACULTY, January - May 2012
University of the Arts, Professional Practices, Senior Seminar Program, Philadelphia PA

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, 2000 - 2011 
Philagrafika, Philadelphia, PA

EXHIBITIONS DIRECTOR, 1994 - 1999
Philadelphia Folklore Project