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Jen Berger works as an interdisciplinary, community and socially engaged artist and educator. She has lived in Burlington since 2001, and specifically on Decatur St. in the Old North End since 2006.
Jen uses street, stage and guerilla theater, visual arts, painting, printmaking, puppetry, video for education and dialogue to raise awareness and intervene in social issues that affect us all.
Jen also works as a teaching artist, working with students, who are in early childhood through adult aged students.
Jen has been devising projects to engage her community for many years. Her creative commitment to the Old North End has resulted in two residencies at the Integrated Arts Academy, one resulting in a mural that hung at the top of the Rt 127 bike path entrance and a performance- based cooking class at the Old North End farmers market to help neighbors become more comfortable in creating recipes based on the vegetables available each week.
Along with individually designed projects, Jen was on the board of the Ramble for over ten years, and worked to produce ‘Decaturfest’ for multiple years, that served as a street party in which neighbors celebrated their community through art and performance.
She is currently adjunct faculty at the Community College of Vermont and Champlain College, and creating community engagement opportunities through her new project ‘At the Root’. Jen spends her mornings planning her day, while watching Decatur St. come to life through the windows of her living room with a cup of coffee and her cat Jack on her lap.
Jen uses street, stage and guerilla theater, visual arts, painting, printmaking, puppetry, video for education and dialogue to raise awareness and intervene in social issues that affect us all.
Jen also works as a teaching artist, working with students, who are in early childhood through adult aged students.
Jen has been devising projects to engage her community for many years. Her creative commitment to the Old North End has resulted in two residencies at the Integrated Arts Academy, one resulting in a mural that hung at the top of the Rt 127 bike path entrance and a performance- based cooking class at the Old North End farmers market to help neighbors become more comfortable in creating recipes based on the vegetables available each week.
Along with individually designed projects, Jen was on the board of the Ramble for over ten years, and worked to produce ‘Decaturfest’ for multiple years, that served as a street party in which neighbors celebrated their community through art and performance.
She is currently adjunct faculty at the Community College of Vermont and Champlain College, and creating community engagement opportunities through her new project ‘At the Root’. Jen spends her mornings planning her day, while watching Decatur St. come to life through the windows of her living room with a cup of coffee and her cat Jack on her lap.
