“My role as an artist is to be a record keeper of lost memories and forgotten voices. Memory is embodied in everything around us – in our culture, beliefs, our objects and ourselves.”

Discarded objects, as well as ones passed down to me by my family, become personal keepsakes and icons of the past. To other people these mementos would otherwise be overlooked or regarded as something useless. But to me, my collections represent a sense of holding onto a place in time and capturing memory.

Creating these visual narratives in all of my works, I express concepts of memory, document person histories, and record voices which would otherwise be lost – universal concepts to which an audience can relate.”

Jen Blazina resides and has a studio in Philadelphia where she is also a Professor of Printmaking at Drexel University. Her work can be seen in numerous museums and private collections including the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning NY, Bergstrom Mahler Museum of Glass in Neenah WI, Imagine Museum in St. Petersburg FL, and The National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia PA to name a few