Jennifer is a lifelong artist who has always worked in some aspect of art as an art teacher, an illustrator, and muralist. In January 2011, she was the Artist in Residence at the de Young Museum exhibiting “Spirit Boat Directions” and in February 2014 she was the guest artist at the Living Shaman Museum of the SF Presidio exhibiting “Healing Spirit Boats.” She held boat making workshops in both places, sharing her sculptural techniques. In January 2015, her “Spirit Boat Timeline” went on exhibition at Gallery 190, part of the University of California, San Francisco Memory and Aging Center.
She has exhibited her work widely in various Bay Area venues over the past twenty years and is a long time participant in San Francisco Art Span Open Studios. She is a museum educator at The Contemporary Jewish Museum and senior teaching artist at the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums and a where she works with adult and children’s programs, designs projects, and leads tours of exhibitions. Jennifer has also worked with Alzheimer’s programs at both museums, helping early stage patients find meaning and comfort through engaging with art. Since 1989, she has run her mural business, Ewing and Germano, with husband, Leo Germano. Specializing in fine art services for commercial and residential clients, their business began in response to visiting Italian fresco cycles that ignited the desire to paint big!
