JENN HOULE
2023, 2022, 2020, 2018 Exhibiting Artist
workshop instructor
Jenn’s work has been exhibited in all of our recent major Creature Conserve exhibitions. These include Re-Imagining Conservation: From The Ground Up at Swale House in NYC (2023), Re-Examining Conservation: Questions at the Intersection of Art and Science at Brown University’s Granoff Center in RI (2022), and Urban Wildlife: Learning to Co-Exist at Rhode Island School of Design in RI (2018), at Sprout Coworking in RI (2019) and the National Museum of Wildlife Art (2020) in WY.
Jenn is also one of our workshop instructors for Where Art Meets Community.
From the artist about her 2023 work, ‘Botanical Belonging’
“[My series of five art signs]'Botanical Belonging’ celebrates the magic power of native plants to save this fragile blue planet. Five signs represent the region’s butterfly families and celebrate their host plants. Drawing from Douglas Tallamy’s Homegrown National Park, the zine & paintings inspire people to plant native to create continuous habitat for all species!.”
JENN HOULE is a public artist and native New Englander. Two decades of teaching art, endless naturalist curiosity, a deep concern for all living beings, and motherhood shapes her artistic practice. Jenn is a current Great Marsh Artist at Manship Artist Residency, and has created a ‘Dark Skies’ collaborative glow-in-the-dark mural and public program at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. She is now launching the second cycle of ‘Plant Paint Cross-Pollinate’, a migratory mural project focused on the magical power of native plants to heal our planet with community planting and painting events.
Jenn has held artist residencies in Great Smoky Mountain National Park (twice, once evacuated during fire storms then returned to lead synchronous fireflies programming), Vermont Studio Center, the Plumbing Museum and is a 2024 ChangeMaker with Essex County Community Foundation. Ms. Houle is a grant recipient from the Collective Futures Fund, Puffin Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Essex County Community Foundation, Cornell Council for the Arts, Einaudi Foundation, and John Hartell Graduate Award for Art and Architecture.
Massachusetts. USA
Instagram Handle: @jennhoulestudio
Website: jennhoule.com