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1. 1. www.projectsgallery.com

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   Published on: 3/22/2008   Last Visited: 3/22/2008

   Jen Blazina - "Recollection"Projects Gallery :: Recollection :: Jen Blazina
   
   Projects Gallery629 N 2nd St Philadelphia, PA 19123 267.303.9652 info@projectsgallery.com
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   Projects Gallery announces "Recollection", a mixed media installation experience by Philadelphia-based artist Jen Blazina.In her debut with Projects Gallery, Blazina's installation makes use of the gallery's unique subterranean space.Featuring glass and resin objects and incorporated vintage images, "Recollection" crafts a moving experience that investigates issues of memory and the communal personal past.
   
   While on a glass fellowship at the Creative Glass Center of America, the artist was inspired by its one-room schoolhouse.Using steel and cast glass, Blazina fabricated replicas of the antique desks with old class photographs as the desktops.
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   Jen Blazina received her M.F.A. in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art, her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, as well as her B.F.A., cum laude, from the State University of New York at Purchase College.She is a currently a professor of fine arts at Drexel University and has recently been awarded a residency at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium.The artist has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums around the world, including the Netherlands, Germany and Italy.

2. 2. WheatonArts - New Installation

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   Published on: 1/1/2007   Last Visited: 7/19/2008

   "RECOLLECTION" By Jen Blazina
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   Jen Blazina is a working artist exhibiting nationally and internationally.A professor at Drexel University, she resides in Philadelphia.She received her M.F.A. in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1996.In 2006, she had a solo exhibition at the Scuola di Grafica in Venice, Italy, the Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia and Marx Saunders Gallery in Chicago.
   
   Currently she is exhibiting Recollecting as a solo exhibition at the Pictura Gallery in Holland and Radford University in Virginia.Among her accolades, Jen has been awarded numerous residencies and grants.Her past residencies include: Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY; Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA; The Millay Colony for the Arts in NY; The Creative Glass Center of America in Millville, NJ; and Scuola di Grafica in Venice, Italy.
   
   Some of her awarded grants include: Leeway Foundation Grant, an Individual Artist Grant through the Maryland State Arts Council, and fellowship through the Independence Foundation Grant.

3. 3. WheatonArts - Jennifer Blazina

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   Published on: 1/24/2008   Last Visited: 1/24/2008

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   Jennifer Blazina
   
   Jennifer Blazina received her MFA in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1996 and her BFA, cum laude, from the State University of New York at Purchase College in 1994.Her work has recently been included in solo exhibitions in New York, Cleveland, Miami, Chicago, Baltimore and Washington D.C. Blazina has also been included in various group shows nationally and internationally.Among her many commissioned works, Blazina just completed a large installation for the California Community Foundation in Los Angeles, which was featured in their 2000-2001 annual report.She was awarded a residency grant at the Millay Colony for the Arts in 2001, the Blue Mountain Center in 2001, the Residency at the Artcenter / South Florida in Miami from 1998-2001 and the 1999 Visiting Artists Grant at Shepherd College, West Virginia.Blazina has been the recipient of the 1998 Regional Italian-American Arts Grant, the 1997 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artists Grant for Excellence in Sculpture, and the Nancy Graves Fellowship in Sculpture for 2001.Blazina currently heads the Printmaking program at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia.