Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture

Jessica Halonen

Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture
Region: Austin, TX
MacDowell Fellowships: 2007
More: www.jessicahalonen.com
Jessica Halonen is an American visual artist. She received a M.F.A. in painting from Washington University in Saint Louis and a B.A. from Kalamazoo College. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, notably at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Austin Museum of Art, Park Project in Los Angeles, University of Texas Dallas and San Antonio, and Fort Worth Contemporary Arts. Her work is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and The Museum of Southeast Texas. She has been an artist in residence at MacDowell and a Core Fellow at the Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Halonen is an associate professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Trinity University. She lives and works in Austin and San Antonio.

Studios

Eastman

Jessica Halonen worked in the Eastman studio.

Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…

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