Jenn Houle

Jenn Houle is a visual artist and native New Englander. She has held artist residencies in Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Vermont Studio Center, and the Plumbing Museum. Ms. Houle is a grant recipient from Creative County Initiative of the Essex County Community Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cornell Council for the Arts, Einaudi Foundation, and John Hartell Graduate Award for Art and Architecture. Recent exhibits include ‘Terrestrial Magnetism’ solo show at Fitchburg State University, ‘Meteors are space eggs’ solo show at UMASS Amherst, ‘Searching for Life’ at Mass Audubon's Habitat Education Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, and ‘Urban Wildlife: Learning to Co+Exist’ at RISD.

Houle currently teaches at Northern Essex Community College and Fitchburg State University. Houle received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and an MFA from Cornell University. Jenn’s public art projects raise awareness around environmental concerns. This began with ‘Featherlight: Foul Falls’ at Ithaca Falls (a former Brownfield site due to Ithaca Gun Co.’s manufacturing process and coincidentally the site of Hans Haacke’s ‘Spray of Ithaca Falls: Freezing and Melting on Rope’). Other projects include a community mural highlighting a brook restoration project at the Mary Dennison Park in partnership with the Framingham Department of Public Works, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The Umbrella Arts & Environment Program, OARS and Framingham Boys & Girls Club. Currently she is focused on 'Plant Paint Cross-Pollinate' a public art migrating mural project focused on the importance of native plants to pollinators and ecosystem health through collaborative community art events led by artist Jenn Houle.