Based in and deeply influenced by her native New Orleans, Jan Gilbert employs tools and processes of collaboration to create a host of widely varied projects.

Gilbert received her undergraduate degree from the University of New Orleans and her Master of Fine Arts from Tulane University. She has taught at Tulane and Loyola Universities, Delgado Community College and served as an artist/mentor with graduate students of Vermont College.

As an interdisciplinary artist, curator and educator, Gilbert mines memory, loss and transition, pushing boundaries by forging objects, installations, rituals, and networks. Her universally compelling works are simultaneously personal and collective, public and private, local and global.

Gilbert has been awarded individual artist’s fellowships by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts, Louisiana Division of the Arts, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and Art Matters. Her projects have received support from the NEA/Rockefeller Initiative for Interdisciplinary Artists, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Ford Foundation, Trust for Mutual Understanding, and National Association of Artist’s Organizations.

In 2013, Gilbert was honored with a Community Arts Award recognizing artistic excellence, sustained contributions, unusual achievements, perseverance, and a deep commitment to the arts and the cultural community.