Jennifer Ogden
Bitterroot Valley
Exhibit Year: 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2021-2022, 2023-2024
About the Artist
Jennifer Ogden is an artist, teaching artist, and a K-12 art specialist in a rural public school. Her collage images are made with the up-cycled paper found mostly in her mailbox stream. She selects from this resource for implied pattern, texture and hue. The “paper brushstrokes” are rearranged and glued to a substrate in order to tell new stories about the sensory aspects of place and belonging.
Jennifer Ogden is an MT Open AIR aritst.
Artist Statement
Pink Snow gets its rosy hue from a cold-loving, freshwater micro-algae that can be observed living on the snow located in alpine and polar regions around the world. We definitely have “Watermelon Snow” blooming and proliferating here in our Montana mountain ranges. Scientists who study these algal blooms are seeking deep, longterm data. When they collect samples for research in high elevations they’re trying to determine how much added sunlight the colored-micro algae is absorbing (among other things) and whether they can see a correlation with the presence of pink snow algae, accelerated snow melt and the potential effects on the watershed below. “Glacier Blood” could be nature’s warning that water levels will be impacted in drought-prone regions.