Jennifer Schumacher Waller ( she/her )

My work explores moments of transition that lie in-between fixed states—those liminal places where meaning wavers and blurs and certainty dissolves. The moments that hold the fragile interval after things fall apart. The spaces of transition are places of pause, reflection and perception that reveal the feeling and sense of connection and separation.

The in-betweenness of things. 

I use clay as a material to record the quiet moments and lived experience, moments of stillness, the space between and the connections that bridge them together. These records and relationships explore issues of uncertainty, loss, memory, grief and place of breath. I am drawn to the presence of what once was there, the fragility of a moment and what we choose to hold onto and release.  Fibers and other materials are used to mend, connect or come between these moments and spaces. 

Jennifer Schumacher Waller lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jennifer received her BFA from Louisiana State University where she studied ceramics and photography. In 2023 Jennifer went on to receive a Post-Baccalaureate in Ceramics at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her practice explores moments that lie in-between fixed states—those liminal places where meaning wavers, certainty dissolves and moments that hold the fragile interval after things fall apart. Jennifer held residency at the International Artist Residency Exchange in Saint-Raphael, France and the Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana.