Jana Zimmer – Man Sketch B.A.

Description

Artist Statement

Jana Zimmer is a Santa Barbara writer and mixed media artist. She has exhibited over the last thirty years in California, New York, Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic, in Prague and at the Terezin Ghetto Museum, and, through Jewish Artists’ Initiative, in the Jerusalem Biennale. Her artwork has been focused, since 1994, on themes of feminism, in the traveling exhibit, “Wbb: Women Beyond Borders”, environmentalism, in imagery contained in her book, “Navigating the California Coastal Act“ (Solano Press, 2017) and, throughout her career,  on generational trauma, and refugees and immigrants, wherever they land.

Most recently, she is the author of “Chocolates from Tangier: A Holocaust Replacement Child’s Memoir of Art and Transformation” (Doppelhouse Press, 2023), which has been translated and distributed in Germany as “Pralinen Aus Tanger” (Hentrich & Hentrich, 2024). It has also been translated to Czech, and she is hopeful of making it available in Spanish. She has recently begun working with various populations, including immigrant youth, in collage workshops focusing on their immigrant/refugee experience.