Portrait of Jen Blazina
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Jen Blazina is a Philadelphia sculptor and printmaker who uses glass as her primary media.
Blazina’s work is in multiple collections such as the Neuberger Museum of Art, The Imagine Museum, The Cranbrook Museum of Art, and the Corning Museum of Glass to name a few. Jen has been awarded numerous residencies including: the Corning Artist in Residency at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York; GAPP Residency at Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, OH; Bezalel Art and Design Academy in Jerusalem, Israel; and the Creative Glass Center of America in Millville, NJ. She has also been awarded prestigious grants as the Bessie and Louis Stein Fellowship; Independence Foundation Grant; and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant. Jen has just been nominated for the 2022 Pew Fellowship Award in the Excellence of Craft through the PEW Charitable Foundation of Philadelphia, PA.
Jen is represented by Raven Gallery in Aspen, CO; Habatat Detroit Fine Art in Royal Oak, MI; Blue Spiral 1 in Asheville, NC; Vetri Glass Gallery in Seattle, WA; Kittrell Riffkind Gallery in Dallas, TX; Bullseye Projects in Portland, OH; and Koelsch Gallery in Houston, TX.
Jen Blazina received her M.F.A. in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art; her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in New York; and her B.F.A., summa cum laude, from the State University of New York at Purchase College in Purchase, NY.
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