Jen Bervin

Jen Bervin's work brings together text and textile in a practice that encompasses poetry, archival research, artist's books, and large-scale art works. She has published seven books. Current research for her next project, The Silk Poems, an experimental book nanoimprinted on silk film, includes consulting nanotechnology and biomedical labs, medical libraries, and over fifty international textile archives and sericulture museums.

Bervin has received fellowships and residencies in art and writing from the Bogliasco Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, MacDowell Colony, Visual Studies Workshop, the Camargo Foundation in France, and many others. Her work has been shown at The Power Plant in Toronto, The Walker Art Center, The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, The Soap Factory, and Temple Contemporary, and is in more than thirty collections including Yale University, Stanford University, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and The J. Paul Getty Museum.

Jen Bervin's work will be on display in the Hauser Library's Special Collections throughout RAW. On Thursday, March 5th, Jen Bervin will give an artist talk / poetry salon in Vollumn Lounge from 4:30-6pm and a poetry reading in the Eliot Hall Chapel at 6:30pm.