That labour into its own identity, function and purpose.Salon Alper Derinbogaz has created interiors with amorphous furnitures for Reflect Studio, a design and manufacturing brand focusing on garments and everyday objects. Iĭon’t want to destroy the evidence of the labour. “And because they’re rare, they’re valuable,” JenieĬontinues. Both approaches confer an artificial rarity on a print, she Such as numbering prints or destroying woodblocks once an edition isĬomplete. “more democratic.” For example, Jenie rejects traditional best practices This concern animates her work as aĪs a printmaker, Jenie looks for ways to make printmaking Taking a broad view of how artwork impacts a community is aĬentral feature of Jenie’s practice. People who rely on buses as a means of transport as a part of this Transportation to work is public transit, it makes it significantly “If you say in a job application your only mode of She’s also working with local businesses to manufacture theĪluminum panels and with a non-profit to hire transit riders to install Grassy setback - an oasis for foot travellers amid long stretches of “pedestrian-scale.” This decision aims to preserve the tree-lined, Jenie made sure their design for the mural was “We care about how things look, we care about investing in arts andĬulture, we care about investing in artists, and we care about Rhodes-Conway, Madison’s mayor, told news publication Isthmus. Spaces because it sends a signal to the community that we care,” Satya “It’s really important for us to include art in public Received notice that she was a finalist after relocating to Vancouver. Jenie applied for the Metro art call in 2021, and only The stateįirst had to establish the policy, and then conduct the Metro projectĪpproval process. Jenie notes the project was years in the making. National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, Wisconsin currently ranks last To restore this ordinance, which was once statewide. The City of Madison is one of only two Wisconsin cities Jenie’s proposal is the first to receive supportįrom the ordinance since it was scuttled in 2011 by Gov. It feels like the community carried me here, and now I Having the opportunity to bring that proposal to lifeįeels amazing. Special thing for people to feel safe and generous enough to share “I wanted to centre the experiences of public transit The stories Jenie heard and the needs those transit riders identified all informed her final submission. “This results in a gap in the data that city officials use when deciding where to build or get rid of bus routes and where to build new transit infrastructure.” “The most recent city survey of bus riders was 84 per cent white, despite this not reflecting the demographics of Madison's diverse bus ridership,” Jenie says. To assemble her winning proposal, Jenie interviewed nearly 30 public transit users, the majority of whom were BIPOC. Titled The Time is Ours, Jenie’s mural will grace the outer wall of the Metro Transit Maintenance Facility in Wisconsin’s capital city. For me to even create the proposal, it required a significant level of community trust.” ![]() “I felt grateful and humbled, too, because so much of my work is with the community. “There’s the affirmation of the work, the accomplishment reflecting the effort you’ve put in,” they tell me. They call the achievement a “big milestone.” Jenie (she/they), who has been running a full-time business as a public artist since 2014, lived in Madison before moving to Vancouver. ![]() Artist, entrepreneur and MFA student Jenie Gao recently won a contract for an 8,000-square-foot public mural in Teejop, land of the Ho-Chunk, also known as Madison, WI.
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