JEN BLAZINA •   PHILADELPHIA, PA

Jen Blazina resides and has a studio in Philadelphia where she is a working artist exhibiting with solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. 

Blazina has been awarded numerous residencies including: the Corning Artist in Residency at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York; GAPP Residency at Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, OH; The Estonia Academy of Art in Tallinn, Estonia; Bezalel Art and Design Academy in Jerusalem, Israel; European Ceramic Work Centre in Tilburg, Netherlands; Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, CA; Frans Masserel Centre in Kasterlee, Belgium; Creative Glass Center of America in Millville, NJ.  Among her awarded grants are Bessie and Louis Stein Fellowship; Leeway Foundation Grant; Independence Foundation Grant; a NEA grant supported by the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY. She was nominated for the 2022 Pew Fellowship Award in the Excellence of Craft through the PEW Charitable Foundation of Philadelphia, PA as well as the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in 2020.

Her work is in numerous museum and private collections as well as she is represented by 
Blue Spiral 1 Gallery in Asheville, NC; Habatat Fine Arts Galleries in Royal Oak, MI; Kittrell Riffkind Gallery in Dallas, TX; Raven Gallery in Aspen, CO; Trifecta Art and Design Gallery in Lexington, KY; Koelsch Gallery in Houston, TX; and Vetri Glass Gallery in Seattle, WA.

Jen Blazina received a M.F.A. in Printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI; a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY; and a B.F.A., cum laude, from the State University of New York at Purchase College in Purchase, NY. 

She is a Professor of Printmaking at Drexel University.

"As an artist, I am intrigued with the idea that what is precious to one person will be discarded by another. My work is influenced by commonplace possessions, familial vignettes and photographs. These evoke an ephemeral sense of past memories. Whether found in a second-hand shop or passed down from my family, I am often attracted to and captivated by the lost beauty of subtle images and materials. By re-creating and casting momentos in glass and metal, I transform their history in my own voice. The process allows me to capture and hold on to another time in the past. Photographs and chosen objects allude to narratives of fleeting moments."