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Jennifer Pickering

Location of Box Art: Meadowview & 29th St
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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. 
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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


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