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Soon to Launch - The Island Project

by Jill Austen on 01/11/16

After celebrating the completion of The 365 Series with a few days of well-earned rest, I tackled the enormous job of cleaning and re-organizing my studio. I'm just about ready now to hit the road for "The Island Project", my new focus for 2016 and beyond. Lucky me, I will embark on a series of island residencies and adventures worldwide, creating art in response to each location. Bound for The Bahamas in a few days!

In Harlem, New York can enjoy some of my earlier tropical fauna and flora paintings on exhibit from mid-January at Citibank on 2481 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd at 142nd Street.

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Jill Austen Bio

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performances and exhibits throughout the US, Mexico and the Caribbean. Teaching opportunities have taken her to Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and the College of the Bahamas in Nassau. Her inner vagabond is happy to call New York City home. Jill's poetry was first published in Leaf Garden Press in 2009, and more recently in About Place Journal, Mom Egg Review and Blue Door Quarterly. A Comfort of Hummingbirds, her first poetry chapbook awaits publication.

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Jill Austen lives a multidisciplinary life, embracing creativity through music, art and poetry. To this end she has created Austen Academy, offering a series of integrated arts workshops which explore individuality and the creative process. Jill holds degrees in music from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the University of Minnesota, where she also studied visual arts and art history. She is a juried associate member of the Pastel Society of America. As both flutist and visual artist she has enjoyed residencies,