Past Resident

Jennifer Sargent

Jennifer Sargent makes intricate drawings and handwoven tapestries. As an artist weaver she considers herself both a contemporary practitioner and a part of a longer continuum that is thousands of years old. This idea is both a comfort and a challenge. One of two elements is always present in Sargent’s work, either story telling or the natural world (whether wild or domesticated). Sargent creates an abstracted sense of these ideas or experiences through the layering of pattern and color.

Based in Memphis, Jennifer has received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission, is an Inductee into The Costume & Textile Institute at the Tennessee State Museum and was a Tennessee Craft 2022 Master Artist.

Website: jennifersargent.weebly.com
Instagram: @jennifersargentstudio

Image credit: Jennifer Sargent. Sometimes a Journey Makes Itself Necessary. 27×51.5. 2022. Handwoven tapestry. Photo by Chip Pankey.