Jennifer Pickering
Location of Box Art: Meadowview & 29th St
Artist Statement
Jennifer is a literary and visual artist who grew-up in Tierra Buena and Yuba City, California. Her award-winning visual art is featured in Moon Mist Valley, 13th Moon (S.U.N.Y. Albany) Poetsexpresso, News&Review, Cosumnes River Journal, Rattle and other publications. Blue Moon Literary & Art Journal, and 13th Moon (S.U.N.Y. Albany) features her visual art on their covers. Her art was also, featured on the poster for the exhibit, Creating Freedom: The Art and Poetry of Domestic Violence Survivors. Jennifer’s visual art has been exhibited in many Sacramento galleries including: The Verge, The Brickhouse Gallery, Fe Gallery, Crocker Art Museum, Robert Else Gallery (C.S.U. Sacramento), California History Museum, C.S.U. (Sacramento) Annex Gallery in the traveling show: PTSD Nation, Capitol Public Radio, S.U.N.Y. Buffalo. Some press coverage includes Inside Publications, KVIE Public Television, Channel 10 News and the Sacramento Bee.
She created several public murals with community and students at these sites: Tahoe Park, (William Land Elementary School) both in Sacramento and Yuba City (Gray Avenue School). In 2013, she was awarded a grant from the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission to compile and edit the anthology entitled, Sable & Quill: The visual art and writing of writers who are also artists. Awards include the best California State Workers Poem and honorable mention for a collection of poems and short stories, entitled, “The Farmlands Stories,” Five Quarterly. Her prose, the” Improbable Cat Lover” was published by Harlequin, in The Dog with the Old Soul.
She is a Board Member for the Sacramento Poetry Center and is Editor of the Sable & Quill: Writer’s Who Are Also Visual Artists v.1. She makes her home in Sacramento, California where she writes and makes art. Contact Jennifer here: jenniferartist09@gmail.com
She created several public murals with community and students at these sites: Tahoe Park, (William Land Elementary School) both in Sacramento and Yuba City (Gray Avenue School). In 2013, she was awarded a grant from the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission to compile and edit the anthology entitled, Sable & Quill: The visual art and writing of writers who are also artists. Awards include the best California State Workers Poem and honorable mention for a collection of poems and short stories, entitled, “The Farmlands Stories,” Five Quarterly. Her prose, the” Improbable Cat Lover” was published by Harlequin, in The Dog with the Old Soul.
She is a Board Member for the Sacramento Poetry Center and is Editor of the Sable & Quill: Writer’s Who Are Also Visual Artists v.1. She makes her home in Sacramento, California where she writes and makes art. Contact Jennifer here: jenniferartist09@gmail.com