Places I Have Lived
My school days were spent in Horicon, Wisconsin. The Rock River was my playground. The Horicon Marsh, my first landscape, remains a special place in my heart.
Jeri at the Horicon Marsh, September 2021
I moved to Iowa to attend Cornell College in Mount Vernon, and then taught high school for three years at Scattergood School in West Branch. While living there, I explored that landscape through watercolor.
“Walking through the House,” watercolor by Jeri (1977), private collection
Living in Austin, Texas, gave me seventeen years to absorb the colors of Mexico and the Southwest. My husband Jon and our friend Nancy helped me paint this mural for the Austin Chamber of Commerce.
Texas Folklife Mural by Jeri
Boston, Massachusetts. Nineteen years of painting, painting, painting and access to so many great cultural opportunities in Boston and NYC.
We moved to Vermont on the day after Christmas 2016. I love it here. In this photo, I’ve just reached my 2021 pandemic goal of walking 500 miles in 4 months.
Jeri finishes her 500-mile walk, escorted by neighbors!
Travel Highlights
Asunción, Paraguay, 2009
Jeri painting a mural at Instituto Superior de Bellas Artes in Asunción
Jeri speaking to students at Bellas Artes
Mexico City, 2010
At Frida Kahlo’s Blue House, Coyoacán, Mexico
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Climbing the pyramids at Teotihuacán
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Montevideo, Uruguay, 2011
At Museo Torres García, Montevideo, Uruguay
Museo José Gurvich, Montevideo, Uruguay
Buenos Aires, 2011
Having lunch at a favorite restaurant across from the yacht club, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bilbao, Spain, 2015
Exploring Guggenheim Bilbao and the art of Eduardo Chillida
At the seashore in San Sebastián, Spain
Other happy journeys:
- Panajachel, Guatemala (2004, 2005, 2006)
- London, England (2006)
- Singapore (2015)
- Montréal, Canada (2016)
- St. George, Utah (2018)
Career
Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa
1970–1974, double major in Art and English
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
1980–1982, studied drawing with Stanley Lewis
“Woman and Child,” first painting exhibited professionally by Jeri, the Des Moines Art Center (1975)
Since 1975, my paintings have been featured in juried shows at art centers, museums, and galleries. In those early years, I also taught high school, worked for several arts organizations, and served as an educational consultant for the GED. It wasn’t until I turned fifty that I began painting full-time and developed the style that characterizes my work today.
Here is a link for a two-woman show at Factory Mark Gallery in Framingham, MA, in Fall 2019 where paintings from my Relationship series were displayed.
I published my first piece of creative nonfiction in 1991. After moving to Vermont, I focused more on writing and now have more than twenty pieces published in literary quarterlies and small magazines. In 2020, my short film Hunting Arrowsheads with My Father was featured in the Wisconsin Film Festival and the Weyauwega International Film Festival. The film is forthcoming in the Wildwood Film Festival.