The Ellies
Jennifer Gifford
2025 Teacher Travel Grant Winner
2019 Teacher Travel Grant Winner
Jennifer Gifford
To travel to Vienna, Austria, the hometown of Sigmund Freud, and study Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Freud himself with a focus on the topics of life and death. This will positively affect her high school figure drawing students, who often discuss their awakening thoughts on these subjects, by helping them navigate their ideas and support their reflected artmaking.
To work in the printmaking studios of the Willem de Kooning Academie, part of Rotterdam University in the Netherlands, to become proficient in mezzotint printmaking, to create a series of figurative prints and ultimately to teach the technique to students.
Ellies Award
2025 Teacher Travel Grant
$5,000
2019 Teacher Travel Grant
$5,000
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