Jennifer Lee Wiebe

BIOGRAPHY: Jennifer Lee Wiebe received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Wisconsin- Madison, her MEd in Curriculum Studies with a master’s project on Creativity, and her BA (Magna Cum Laude) in English and American Literature from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.   She is the graduate of the Great Teachers Program, the Instructor Development Program, and a presenter for Creative Connexions Conference (2018) at the University of New Brunswick.  Her work is held in private collections in the U.S. and Canada as well the permanent collection of the New Brunswick Arts Bank.  Her piece entitled “Dancers” (2015) is currently traveling as part of the Art Bank’s VanGo educational outreach program.

Jennifer is a Canadian-based professional visual artist and educator with twenty years of experience in the field of creativity.  While trained in the conventional scales of design, drawing, colour and painting, her unique approach to art-making brings together equal measures of social commentary, critical analysis as well as skill-based aspects of the creative process.  Jennifer is currently the Studio Head of Drawing at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, has taught in the Departments of Education and Multi Media Studies at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.