Jerri Allyn

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Jerri Allyn received an MA in Art and Community from Goddard College, Vermont. She also attended The Feminist Studio Workshop at The Woman's Building: A Public Center for Women’s Culture.

Allyn worked within the Feminist Art Movement, which strives to raise issues, invite dialogue and ultimately transform culture. She is best known as a founding member of The Waitresses (the performance art group) and Sisters of Survival, both of which were exhibited internationally.

She creates interactive installations and performance art events for site-oriented spaces that become a part of public life, building connections between various audiences and the art world. Most of her work is in a narrative or storytelling form and deals with communication theory. In allegiance to no particular medium, she uses the most appropriate form, depending on the ideas and intentions of a piece, working extensively in site-oriented public performance and installation art; audio, video and billboards; artists books, graphic multiples and page art.

Her interactive sculptural installation, with soundscapes by Helene Rosenbluth, “A Chair is a Throne is a Freedom Fighter’s Camp Stool,” is about resolving conflicts creatively. This work premiered in New York Public Libraries in 2002 and was sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

In 2004, Allyn became the Director of ACT: Artists, Community and Teaching at Otis College of Art and Design, a program for Fine Arts students to concentrate in Art Education.

[edit] Selected Awards

  • Rockefeller Foundation Residency at the Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy
  • Lila Wallace Readers Digest Residency, in Oaxaca, Mexico
  • Joan Mitchell Foundation grant
  • New Genres Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
  • Media Grant, New York State Council on the Arts
  • Artist in Residence, Yellow Springs Institute, Yellow Springs, PA

[edit] Selected Bibliography

  • Marbury, Donna, “Chairs Become Throne for Peace in Art Exhibition,” The Columbus Post, Dc 30’04
  • Perron, Wendy, “If the Chair Fits (or Challenges) Settle In and Listen,” Sunday Arts & Leisure, New York Times, Jn23’02
  • Hogarty, Ellen,“Artist Jerri Allyn,”City Folk Morning Program, Arts Feature, 90.7 WFUV Radio, NY,Ap9’02
  • Fuller, Diana & Daniela Salvioni. Parallels & Intersections: Art/Women/California 1950-2000, UCBerkeley Press, 2002
  • Pou, Alyson, “Exploding the Model: On Youth & Art,” Public Art Review, Vol 9#2, Spr Sum 1998 p4
  • Lacy, Suzanne, Ed, Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, Bay Press 1995,
  • Lippard,Lucy. Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art, New Press 1995
  • Dworkin, Norine, “Jerri Allyn: Angels Have Been Sent to Me,” High Performance Magazine, Fall ‘91 p56
  • Atkins, Robert, “Sketchbook: Jerri Allyn’s Angels Have Been Sent to Me,” Village Voice',' May 28 ’91
  • Brown, Betty Ann & Arlene Raven. “JAllyn,” Exposures: Women & Their Art, New Sage Press, 1989
  • Howell, John, “Jerri Allyn,” Artforum, Apr. 1988 p144
  • Carr, C, “Art on a Raft, Politics to Go,” Village Voice, Dec 8, 1987 p116
  • Burnham, Linda, “Jerri Allyn: Apron: A Covering Worn in Front to protect,” Artforum, Nov. 1981, p89


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