Featured Artist

Jill Krasner

After earning a BFA from Douglas College, Jill Krasner began her professional career as a commercial artist in New York City.  Marriage and children brought her to Washington, DC, where she worked for the next two decades in broadcasting; first as Art Director for Metromedia Television and eventually creating, writing and producing children’s shows, documentaries and promotional campaigns for Metromedia and Westinghouse Television.

She was awarded numerous Addys, Clios and Emmys for her creative work in publishing and broadcasting.

Eventually, a hunger to return to fine arts and crafts led Krasner to leave the corporate world to start “making art” a full-time endeavor.  Recent commissions include a Party Animal Sculpture (DC Commission for the Arts), an OC Bird Sculpture(Ocean City, Maryland Chamber of Commerce), DC Commission for the Arts Tabletop Sculpture, the Eskow Commission Anniversary Mixed Media Sculpture.

Krasner’s work has been carried in numerous galleries around the country, including Scarlett Feathers, Parkland Gallery, Heinerman-Myers Gallery, Muddy Creek Gallery, Bungalow Gallery, Two Plates Full, Hanson Galleries, Sticks & Steele Gallery.  She has had one-person shows in Cape Cod, MA; Charlotte, NC; Princeton, NJ and  Sarasota, FL.

Krasner is committed to recycling and repurposing found materials in her art. In addition to Mixed Media Painting, she currently works in Mosaic Sculpture, Collage Assemblage and Altered Books.  Krasner teaches both adults and children in collage, altered books, mosaics, found object jewelry, beading, and felting.