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[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]Jennie Thwing is a Canadian-born artist, animator, and educator.\u00a0 She recently (2021) Moved from NYC to Alfred, NY where she teaches animation at Alfred State College. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art and her MFA from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She has had solo exhibitions at Grizzly Grizzly, Local Project, Chashama Space to Present, the Arlington Arts Center, the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, The Mainline Art Center, Soho 20 Gallery, School 33, Fleisher Art Memorial Dene M. Locheim Gallery, Nexus Foundation for Today\u2019s Art, Studio 34 and 20.20. She has curated numerous multidisciplinary exhibitions and attended residencies in the US, Norway, New Zealand, and Canada.\u00a0 She has received numerous awards including the 2014 Meyer Family Award for Contemporary Art; an Environmental Art Project Grant at the Schuylkill Center; a 2013 – 15\u2019 Center for Emerging Artists Fellowship; a 2014 SPARC Artist in Residence grant; and a 2014 & 2019 Queens Arts Fund Grant. Thwing has also served as a panelist for various arts organizations including The New York State Council for the Arts, The Queens Council for the Arts, IPark Artist Residency, and the\u00a0Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Jennie’s project, \u201cOur Country”, is an abstract interactive animation\/installation that shows how\u00a0colonization, industrial growth, consumer culture and population growth have caused environmental\u00a0changes in the United States. The installation displays audio and animated projections on a 3D model of the\u00a0United States that is activated by audience interaction. The animations and sound include both formative\u00a0and mundane events in US history (Ex; flocks of migrating birds. a baby being born, the sounds of early\u00a0industry [the pacific railroad, coal mining, factory sounds etc.] a newspaper recitations of natural disasters\u00a0and world events, audio clips from popular tv shows, parades, traffic patterns, audio clips from a birthday\u00a0party, a political speech, news reports of the first shots in a war.) The animations is activated by pointing a\u00a0laser pointer\/flash light at certain key locations. When the installation is not activated it runs in a\u00a0chronological timeline depicting sounds, music and imagery that abstractly represents the industrialization,\u00a0history, natural landscape and cultural events of the United States. (Ex: The arrival of Native Americans\u00a015,000 BC, European Colonization, Migration of early settlers, the rise and fall of slavery, the formation\u00a0of government, the various wars, the spread of industrialization, population growth, environmental changes,\u00a0social unrest [civil rights\/women’s suffrage] and other key developments.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”87057″ media_width_percent=”100″][vc_column_text]Our Country, <\/em>work\u00a0sample I.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”87065″ media_width_percent=”100″][vc_column_text]Our Country,\u00a0<\/em>work sample II.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”87062″ media_width_percent=”100″][vc_column_text]3D Model of the United Sates.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_custom_heading] July 18, 2022 [\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]Jennie Thwing is a Canadian-born artist, animator, and educator.\u00a0 She recently (2021) Moved from NYC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":87028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86754"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87889,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86754\/revisions\/87889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n