Jennifer Stuart

Jennifer Brooke Stuart was born in New York and has lived and worked in San Francisco for the past 13 years. Jennifer's experience as an educator has included teaching art for eight years at a prestigious private school in San Francisco, creating art with Alzheimer's patients at Laguna Honda Hospital, and teaching students from preschool through college.

Four years ago, she cofounded a nonprofit, Out of Site, a center for art and architecture education. The mission of Out of Site is to develop new models of teaching and thinking about architecture and the visual arts at the high school level, to inspire community engagement and activism by participating in the world through the creation of art, and to create connections among communities through programs that are diverse in their participants, content, and pedagogy.

At CCA, Jennifer is helping to create an art teacher credentialing program at the college. As part of this work she is collaborating with a professor at Mills College to develop a guide to integrate arts learning into preparation programs for non-art teachers. Much of her energy at CCA goes into the Center for Art and Public Life, where she creates and implements professional development workshops for educators and artists who work with public school children.

Finally, as a visual artist, Jennifer has shown work in New York, Rhode Island, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. She uses natural and man-made forms to create layered "landscapes" painted with acrylics on large canvases or drawn on paper and developed into handmade books, collages, and installations. She is most inspired by the interior of the human body and the visceral response these patterns and forms call up for the viewer.