Jean Blackwell Font
About the Artist
Jean Blackwell Font is the co-founder of Font Squared, providing arts marketing to nonprofit arts organizations and artists, and collaboARTive, a nonprofit arts organization that provides resources to visual artists in Miami-Dade County. She is a mixed media artist, an arts marketer, and arts administrator living and working in Miami, FL.
Working in assemblage, mixed media, and collage, Jean never stops learning about art and her own artistic practice, learning from people she knows personally or from studying the lives, art, and work of those she admires. Influenced by artists Betty Saar, Doris Salcedo, Mimmo Rotella, and Joseph Cornell, Jean works to develop a visual vocabulary to express her ideas and concepts.
Jean received her Bachelor’s Degree in Art History from Florida International University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most prestigious Liberal Arts honor society in the U.S. She is a member of ArtTable, the foremost professional organization dedicated to advancing the leadership of women in the visual arts and regularly serves as a grant review panelist for the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs. Her artwork has garnered the attention of several important collectors in Miami and is now part of Florida International University Special Collections. View works and projects at TheField.org or visit her website jeanblackwellfont.art.
Artist Statement
My work addresses the diverse beauty, mystery, and inherent power that connects generations of women. While autobiographical, I explore the personal while expressing universal themes, and often focus on intentionally small details that invite the viewer to lean in for an intimate moment of discovery and quiet reflection.
I seek to connect to our deepest selves and uncover intuitive and ancestral memories that lie within all of us. Through my practice, I seek to build a cultural and emotional symbolism to communicate ideas of memory, grief, and the unseen connection that binds generations of women, specifically, across centuries and geographies.
