CV
Education
2024 MFA, Sculpture + Elective in Fiber, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield
Hills, MI
2022 BFA with Honors, Sculpture, Magna Cum Laude, University of Houston,
Houston, TX
Teaching Experience
2025-26 Lecturer, Oakland University, Rochester, MI (courses taught: 3D Design
in-person, Fall 2025 and Winter 2026)
2024-26 Adjunct Faculty, Macomb Community College, Clinton Township, MI
(courses taught: Color and Design online asynchronous, Fall 2024 and
Winter 2026, Color and Design in-person, Winter 2025, & Fine Art
Appreciation online asynchronous, Winter 2025)
2024-26 Adjunct Faculty, St. Clair County Community College, Port Huron, MI
(courses taught: Color and Design in-person, Fall 2024 – Winter 2026, Art
Appreciation in-person, Fall 2024 – Winter 2025, & Foundation Drawing
in-person, Fall 2025 – Winter 2026)
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Spirituality of the Loss, Third Space Gallery, Houston, TX
2021 Pain, Loss, and The Wandering Soul, Elgin Street Studios, Houston, TX
2017 Finding My Way, Bohemeo’s, Houston, TX
Collaborative Exhibitions
2026 Ceramics x Fiber, Boyer Campbell, NCECA, Detroit, MI (artwork in
collaboration with Julie Lambert)
2024 Environment + Microclimates, Boyer Campbell, Detroit Month of Design
(artwork series in collaboration with w/ Sarah Rose Sharp, Jennifer
Mones, Courtney Matthews, Emily Bush, & Bootz the Poet)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Together We Create, SC4 Galleries, St. Clair County Community College, Port
Huron, MI
Collectively Independent, SC4 Faculty Exhibition, SC4 Galleries, St. Clair
County Community College
Finding Our Way Home, Hatch Art, Hamtramck, MI
2024 Collectively Independent, SC4 Faculty Exhibition, SC4 Galleries, St. Clair
County Community College, Port Huron, MI
Personal Heat, Annex Gallery, Highland Park, MI
Other Selves, Flagstaff Strand Theatre Gallery, Pontiac, MI
Boundless, Berkley Public Library, Pontiac, MI
Kaleidoscope, Pontiac Creative Arts Center, Pontiac, MI, Mosaic Award
Ode to Mother Earth, a juried exhibition, Grosse Pointe Artists Association,
Grosse Pointe Farms, MI, Best of Show Award (juried by the staff of the
Wyland Foundation; gallery talk and presentation of awards by Mark
Huetter, Senior Designer, Mark H Creative)
Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
On Seeing Red, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Annexxx, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2023 Quilter’s Showcase, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
A Queer Show, Forum Gallery
Cartograffiti, Forum Gallery
Tall Tall Bien’talle, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2021 Annex Energy, SITE Gallery, Houston, TX (catalogue)
UH School of Art Annual Student Exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX
2020 BAMSA Biannual Art Show, Lyndall Finley Wortham Theatre, Houston, TX
Pancakes & Booze Art Show, Warehouse Live, Houston, TX
2018 Red Block Bash, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX
Exhibitions Curated
2025 Finding Our Way Home, Hatch Gallery, Hamtramck, MI
2023 Quilter’s Showcase, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Seminars / Lectures
2024 “A Postcolonial Critique of Art vs Craft,” CAA Department of Sculpture,
Bloomfield Hills, MI, Reading Seminar, April 1, 2024.
2023 “From Then To Now,” DeSalle Auditorium, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Artist Slide
Lecture, October 20, 2023.
2021 “The Spirituality of The Loss,” Site Gallery, Houston, TX, Artist Gallery Talk,
July 10, 2021.
Press
2025 Danny Vanzandt, “A Collective Dream: In Conversation with Jen Barker,”
Detroit Cultural, no. 011, July 26, 2025. Digital.
2024 Lisa John Rogers, “Environment + Microclimates at the Boyer-Campbell
Building,” Runner Magazine, September 28, 2024. Digital.
Layla McMurtrie, “Detroit fiber art exhibition showcases political, spiritual, and
sustainable installations,” Detoit Metro Times, September 11, 2024.
Digital.
“Multiple Cranbrook Artists Among 60+ in Detroit Fiber Club Group
Exhibition,” Cranbrook Academy of Art, September 9, 2024. Digital.
Sarah Rose Sharp, “Jen Barker: Torn Apart, Stitched Together (2024),”
Environment + Microclimates Field Guide, Taxonomy Press, September
6, 2024. 6. Print.
Jena Brooker, “Detroit fiber art exhibit debuts Friday in Milwaukee Junction,”
Bridge Detroit, September 5, 2024. Digital.
Mary Genson, “Cranbrook students gain inspiration from campus,” Birmingham-
Bloomfield Eagle, April 23, 2024. Digital
2021 Mitch Cohen, “Art Valet: UH art students emerge with sculpture exhibit,” The
Leader, May 4, 2021. Digital.
“Top Five: Aug. 12, 2021,” Glasstire, August 12, 2021. Digital.
“Annex Energy, University of Houston Grad and Undergrad Sculpture Exhibit,”
Glasstire, April 27, 2021. Digital.
Events / Workshops
2025 Mending Day, Book Suey, Hamtramck, MI, Mutual Aid Event Organizer & Co-
Host w/ Abigail Rist, Yeager Edwards, and Jan Haberek
2024 An Evening of Poetry, Boyer Campbell, Detroit, MI, Poetry Reading Event Co-
Host w/ Mariko Brenner and Abigail Rist
Crochet & Patterns, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI,
Workshop Instructor
2023 Piecing & Quilting, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Workshop
Instructor
2021 Crochet, ARTS 1397, University of Houston, Houston, TX, Workshop Instructor
Writing
2026 “The Leaves, The Leaves,” Meet Me There, Another Time, Lexie Bean, editor
(anticipated)
2024 “Torn Apart, Stitched Together,” Environment + Micro-Climates Field Guide,
Sarah Rose Sharp, organizer/editor, Taxonomy Press, September 6, 2024.
6. Print.
The Spirituality of Connection, Artist Book, The Book Patch, April 19, 2024.
Print.
2021 Editor, Annex Energy Catalogue, Marie Williams, organizer, July 23, 2021.
Digital.
Publications
2020 Glass Mountain Magazine 24, Untitled (2017), (Spring 2020): 41, Print and
Digital.
Shards, Glass Mountain Magazine, no. 10 Make America Great Again?, (Fall
2020), Digital.
Awards / Scholarships
2024 Mosaic Award, Kaleidoscope, Pontiac Creative Arts Center, Pontiac, MI
Best of Show, Ode to Mother Earth, a juried exhibition, Grosse Pointe Artists
Association, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI, (juried by the staff of the Wyland
Foundation; gallery talk and presentation of awards by Mark Huetter,
Senior Designer, Mark H Creative)
Merit Based Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
(2022-2024)
2022 Honor Student, University of Houston, Houston, TX (2013-2014; 2018-2022)
Dean’s List, University of Houston, Houston, TX (2013 & 2020-2022)
Thomas R. & Richard S. Franklin Honors Scholarship, University of Houston,
Houston, TX (2021-2022)
2014 Honors College Scholarship, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Skills
2002-26 Drawing – Life Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Landscape Drawing – Graphite,
Charcoal, Colored Pencil, Pastels, Ink
2020-26 Printmaking – Silkscreen, Relief Printmaking
2008-26 Painting – Abstract Neoexpressionist Painting, Figurative Painting, Acrylic,
Gouache, Watercolor, Mixed Media
2019-26 Photography – Digital Photography, primarily using a Sony Alpha a6000
Mirrorless Camera, though I have experience with Canon DSLR Cameras
as well
2019-26 Sculpture – Assemblage Sculpture, Mixed Media Sculpture – Wood, Steel, Fiber,
Found Objects
2000-26 Fiber – Hand Sewing, Machine Sewing, Clothes Making, Quilting, Mending,
Embroidery, Crocheting – Knit & Woven Fabrics, Natural & Synthetic
Yarns, Paper
2019-26 Metalworking – MIG Welding, Cold Metal Bending, Angle Grinding – New &
Reclaimed Steel
2022-26 Technology – Laser Cutting, 3D Modeling, 3D Printing
2024-26 LMS – Canvas, Moodle
2019-26 Software – Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition, Blender, AutoDesk Fusion360,
Microsoft Office
Professional Experience
2024 Lab Assistant, Central Media Lab, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills,
MI (2022-2024)
2022 Exhibition Installer, Along The Unsaid, Emily Dingmann Art, Houston, TX
Studio Assistant, Emily Dingmann Art, Houston, TX (2021-2022)
2021 Shop Tech, Moore’s School of Music Opera House, Houston, TX (2020-2021)
2020 Collaborating Artist, Daniel Calderon Art, Houston, TX
2012 Drawing Tutor, Private Tutoring, Houston, TX
Commissions
2025 Non-Profit Art Commission, Michigan Fist, Logo Design, digital design using
Illustrator, Michigan Resistance Coalition, Statewide, MI
2023 Public Art Commission, Anti-Gerrymandering Educational Designs, digital
design using Photoshop, Texans Against Gerrymandering, Katy, TX
Private Art Commission, Tarot Quilt, large-scale quilt (90”x90”), embroidery on
cotton, Austin, TX
2022 Private Art Commission, Overthinking, painting (24”x36”), acrylic on canvas,
Houston, TX
Private Art Commission, Biblically Accurate Angel, Crochet Sculpture
(18”x18”x18”), acrylic yarn on wire, Austin, TX
2020 Private Art Commission, Birds & Bluebonnets, Tattoo Design (9”x12”), ink and
watercolor on paper, Houston, TX
Private Art Commission, Planter Windchime, Multi-Media Sculpture
(54”x12”x12”), acrylic on piano keys, crocheted macramé, hanging hook,
flowerpot, Houston, TX
Private Art Commission, Candle Drawing, Drawing (6”x6”), acrylic, ink, and
colored pencil on paper, collaged onto votive candle, Houston, TX
2016 Private Art Commission, Untitled, Painting (18”x24”), acrylic on wood, Houston,
TX
2014 Private Art Commission, Joel’s Portrait, Painting (16”x20”), acrylic on canvas,
Houston, TX