Our Artists
Since its inception, Jentel has made awards to over 1,500 artists.
Many alumni have produced work during residency that subsequently received national recognition. Below are a selection of featured Jentel Alumni and their recent activities.
FEATURED ARTISTTirtza Even
Artist StatementAn experimental documentary maker for over 30 years, Even has produced work which ranges from feature-length documentaries to multichannel, immersive and interactive video installations. Her projects, which rely on almost imperceptible digital manipulation of slow and extended moments, depict the less overt manifestations of complex, and at times extreme, social and political dynamics in locations such as Palestine, Turkey, the U.S. and Germany.
Even's video-work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Whitney Biennial, the Johannesburg Biennial, as well as in many galleries, museums and festivals in the U.S., Canada and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight (NY), RIDM Festival (Montreal), and Rotterdam Film Festival. Her work has won numerous grants and awards including Artadia Awards (Chicago), Jerome Foundation's Media Arts Award, 3ARTs Visual Arts and Next Level Awards, Puffin Foundation Grant, Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship, and multiple NYSCA and DCASE Individual Artist Grants; and has been acquired for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Jewish Museum (NY) and Harvard University's Carpenter Center, among others.
A professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Film, Video, New Media, and Animation department, Even has been a featured speaker at programs such as MIT Doc Lab, the Whitney Museum Seminar series, SXSW Interactive Conference, the Digital Flaherty Seminar, ACM Multimedia and many more.
FEATURED ARTISTEmma Binder
Artist Statement
Emma Binder is a fiction writer from Wisconsin. They have received a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, a Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship, and other honors. Their stories have been selected for inclusion in Best American Short Stories and have received an O. Henry Prize, the Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction, the Indiana Review Fiction Prize, and a Wisconsin Writers Award. Based in the Midwest, they are working on a novel.
JENTEL ALUMNI
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Jentel enjoys seeing your exhibition announcements, new publishings, awards, and much more. We also enjoy sharing our alumni’s work on our website and social media.
For more information please reach out to alumni@jentelarts.org.
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