Jennifer is a lifelong artist who has always worked in some aspect of art as an art teacher, an illustrator, and muralist. She began her theme “Spirit Boats” in 2005 as a response to a major life passage, the death of her father. She uses the boat as a symbol of transformation. Employing sculpture, painting, drawing, print making and installations to describe an inner journey she offers an invitation for others to travel within her boats. In Jan. 2011, she was the Artist in Residence at the deYoung Museum exhibiting “Spirit Boat Directions” and in Feb 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 Jan. 2015, her “Spirit Boat Timeline” went on exhibition @ Gallery 190, part of the UCSF 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 SF Art Span Open Studios. She is a museum educator at the Contemporary Jewish Museum and senior teaching artist at the SF 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 ran her mural business, Ewing and Germano with husband, Leo Germano that specializes 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!
