Discipline: Visual Art

Jenna Spevack

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1997, 1999
More: www.jennaspevack.com
Jenna Spevack is a Brooklyn-based artist, designer, and educator focusing on issues of sustainable ecology and well-being. Her current work merges her varied titles through projects and practices that explore how human interactions with ecological systems support resilience in the shifting natural and social-political landscapes. She has received numerous grants, residencies, and fellowships including the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs grant, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Process Space Residency on Governors Island, I-Park residency in Connecticut, Platte Clove residency in Catskill (NY), Estonian Artist's Association residency in Tallinn, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MacDowell, Blue Mountain Center, Fundacion Valparaiso, and PSCCUNY Research Foundation Awards, among others.

Studios

Putnam

Jenna Spevack worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

Learn more