Bio
Jennifer Schumacher Waller is a multidisciplinary artist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her art practice moves between clay and fiber often bridging the two together. Jennifer received her BFA from Louisiana State University where she studied ceramics and photography. Jennifer worked at the Louisiana Children’s Museum as an Art Educator, Exhibit Designer and Resident Artist. She has taught in public and private schools and held numerous art workshops across Louisiana, In 2024, Jennifer went on to receive a Post-Baccalaureate in Ceramics at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. In 2023, She established her own community clay studio, Clay Work.shop, in New Orleans. Jennifer is a member of the Boston Nomad Collective, and regularly participates in residencies and exhibitions.
Statement
My practice addresses the inner silence that comes with grief through clay and fiber - materials that embody both vulnerability and endurance. My work inhabits the inbetweenness - where absence and presence quietly coexist - while connecting the restorative practice of mending and meditation. Through careful, repetitive gestures with the clay and an attention to material fragility, I create spaces and objects that invite stillness, reflection, attentive care and repair.
The work does not attempt to resolve loss; instead, it honors its persistence, allowing moments of quiet to unfold and be held. Form and silence are in constant dialog. Within these suspended states, the viewer is invited to encounter their own sense of pause, to sit with what remains, and to recognize the subtle resilience that emerges through care and attention allowing histories to move forward.