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Jen Swearington
Portal
Tunnel book sculpture
Jen Swearington grew up in Dyer, Indiana, a small rural-turned-suburban town just outside Chicago. Jen has been drawing as long as she can remember and sewing since the sixth grade. Raised by industrious, resourceful parents and encouraged by supportive family members, she began immersing herself in making art at age 12. Jen studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, with a summer of drawing and painting in Venice, Italy, and earned with a BFA in sculpture in 1997. She headed south to Savannah, GA and went on to earn her MFA in fiber arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2000.
Her mixed media quilts have been exhibited widely including Quilt National '03 and 05', Fiberarts Design Book 7, Surface Design Journal, and the cover of Fiberarts magazine. Jennythreads silk items have been highlighted on HGTV, in the New York Times, and in galleries and boutiques nationwide and internationally.
