Open House: Jaz Graf
APRIL 17, 2023 | 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Our first Open House of 2023 featured Jaz Graf, current West Bay View Foundation Fellow. Every Open House also includes a tour of the Dieu Donné facilities.
Jaz’s work delves through the meaning of familial roots, reimagining humanity’s relationship to earth. She ruminates on our connection to place, the location of identity, and the paradox of presence. Influenced by notions of the ‘eastern’ sacred and ‘western’ sublime, Jaz’s recent work juxtaposes synthetic and raw materials, the virtual gaze with organic imprints, and satellite imagery with dust.
About the Artist
Jaz Graf is a recipient of the Newark Creative Catalyst Grant, Salzberg Book Arts Residency and a Civil Society Institute Fellowship, among others. Graf exhibits locally and internationally, was recently featured at The Newark Museum of Art, NJ and published in the peer-reviewed journal, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas. Her work has appeared in AM New York News, World Literature Today and on PBS (NJTV News) television program. Graf's works are in the collections of the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Princeton University Library and Newark Public Library.
She has served on the Exhibitions Committee of the North American Hand Papermakers, as Vice President of Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC and as a Board Member of ProArts Hudson County. Graf holds a Master of Arts degree in Studio Art Printmaking from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from the University of Iowa. She will be teaching a papermaking workshop at Penland School of Craft this summer from June 4 - 16.