Leader. Scholar. Educator. Artist.
Leadership & Education in the Visual and Performing Arts
Leader. Scholar. Educator. Artist.
Leadership & Education in the Visual and Performing Arts
Professional Profile
My work as a leader, scholar, educator and practitioner provides me with a unique vantage point on institutional growth- ultimately offering new ways of seeing how we value, approach, make decisions, and enact change.
Professional Profile
My work as a leader, scholar, educator and practitioner provides me with a unique vantage point on institutional growth- ultimately offering new ways of seeing how we value, approach, make decisions, and enact change.
As a leader...
Jennifer's work is dedicated to designing, developing, and implementing new programs and adapting existing programs to meet the evolving needs of aspiring artists and the post-secondary institutions that work to prepare them for the professions. She is particularly interested in how schools innovate and seek an interdisciplinary connection between various programs/departments within one academic or artistic institution.
As a scholar...
Using theoretical frameworks of organizational stasis and change, her research examines how post-secondary institutions determine how to balance time-honored technique with innovative practice in an effort to prepare the next generation of professional artists.
As an educator...
Jennifer has taught in arts programs for the past 15 years, in addition to developing a thriving private vocal studio for the past 20 years.
As an artistic professional...
With experience as an actor and vocalist onstage (regional, national tours) and in film, Jennifer brings her own experience, understanding, and relationships in the profession into the classroom, informing the way she works with students and developing new curriculum, methodologies, and programs.