Jeanne Jaffe

Jeanne Jaffe (born 1950) is an American multidisciplinary artist known for her sculpture and installations.

Biography Jaffe is Professor Emeritus of Sculpture at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is also a long-term visiting professor at Xi'An Academy of Fine Arts where in fall 2017, the sculpture department established the Jeanne Faye Jaffe Studio of Sculpture workshop space, the first long-term studio for foreign experts. Jaffe also serves as the coordinator of international programming at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University.

Jaffe has been a recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, including the “Challenge America” grant (a partnership with Jersey Tech Park and the Rowan University College), the Gottlieb Foundation (individual support grant), Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (sculpture fellowship), Mid/Atlantic Foundation, and the Center for Emerging Artists in Philadelphia. the Pennsylvania Academy of Art Museum in Philadelphia, Fuller Craft Museum, the Sculpture Garden at Abington Art Center, , absurdist, and by John Thomason of Boca Raton Magazine as having “eerie resonance.” It examines culture, history, language, and the body. Another piece, “Alice in Dystopia,” referenced the Lewis Carroll classic, which Thomason said “receives an added jolt of contemporary decay” in the “marionette model.”

A historical reference, Jaffe featured inventor Nikola Tesla in what John Tomason of Boca Raton Magazine described as a “poetic, hallucinatory animation,” time-lapse video, “Tesla’s Dream.” Jaffe went on to create a technological installation of Tesla through an NEA-funded partnership with Jersey Tech Park and Rowan University College of Engineering. Another installation, “Field of Forms,” includes 23 bronze statues on steel poles which were inserted in the ground of the campus at the State University of New York at New Paltz.