Jan Lauren Greenfield, Mixed Media Artist
Jan Lauren Greenfield is a writer, professor and mixed media artist based in New York. Her personal and cultural history deeply inform her work. From traveling to Nepal at eighteen to studying with African shamans she has a spent a lot of time exploring alternative healing therapies. She has also spent a lot of time with Old Folks. While her parents were at work, her two closest caregivers were her surrogate grandparents, both holocaust survivors. Years later she went on to work for an organization where she spent time in Israel with not only holocaust survivors but with partisans, the resistance fighters of World War II. Her feature film Old Folks is in development.
Greenfield’s short film script, Part-Time Doorman, won first prize at the 2017 Rhode Island International Film Festival. She has written for Sadie Magazine, Elephant Journal and The Mighty. Her book My Beautiful Bipolar Mind; Fire on the Mountain (Classic Day Press), which explores the cross road of spirituality and mental health is available on Amazon. Her photographs have been featured in Vogue Italia. She was the recipient of the 2014-15 Artists Initiative by the Jewish Education Project / UJA- Federation and has worked with the United Nations.
She has exhibited her mixed media work extensively in solo and group shows in New York and California including “A Twelve Tribe Project, plus New Works in Mixed Media & Photography”, and “Am I Too Young for a Retrospective?” at the Ivy Brown Gallery. She received a Master in Arts & Cultural Management from Pratt Institute and a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College.
Ms. Greenfield began practicing Yoga in Nepal at age 18. She is an E-RYT 200 yoga teacher. As a certified Yoga teacher Ms. Greenfield created and implemented a yoga program for youth leaders who taught that program to over 500 children. She seamlessly integrates play, deep spiritual teachings, and traditional postures. She taught yoga in the mystical city of Tzaft, Israel, the birthplace of Kabbalah. For over a decade Ms. Greenfield has been working with children, adults, and those with special needs.
She was the founding director at Studio 360 recognized by Details Magazine as one of the top 12 new boutique gym in America in 2014 and she created the nationally recognized and most in demand Signature Series class that combined yoga and indoor cycling.
When not working on her latest art project, she can be found reading on the beaches of Tel Aviv, Heli-Skiing in the back country terrain of Canada or walking in her hometown, New York City. She is currently an adjunct professor at Pratt Institute for 2018-2019.
Greenfield’s short film script, Part-Time Doorman, won first prize at the 2017 Rhode Island International Film Festival. She has written for Sadie Magazine, Elephant Journal and The Mighty. Her book My Beautiful Bipolar Mind; Fire on the Mountain (Classic Day Press), which explores the cross road of spirituality and mental health is available on Amazon. Her photographs have been featured in Vogue Italia. She was the recipient of the 2014-15 Artists Initiative by the Jewish Education Project / UJA- Federation and has worked with the United Nations.
She has exhibited her mixed media work extensively in solo and group shows in New York and California including “A Twelve Tribe Project, plus New Works in Mixed Media & Photography”, and “Am I Too Young for a Retrospective?” at the Ivy Brown Gallery. She received a Master in Arts & Cultural Management from Pratt Institute and a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College.
Ms. Greenfield began practicing Yoga in Nepal at age 18. She is an E-RYT 200 yoga teacher. As a certified Yoga teacher Ms. Greenfield created and implemented a yoga program for youth leaders who taught that program to over 500 children. She seamlessly integrates play, deep spiritual teachings, and traditional postures. She taught yoga in the mystical city of Tzaft, Israel, the birthplace of Kabbalah. For over a decade Ms. Greenfield has been working with children, adults, and those with special needs.
She was the founding director at Studio 360 recognized by Details Magazine as one of the top 12 new boutique gym in America in 2014 and she created the nationally recognized and most in demand Signature Series class that combined yoga and indoor cycling.
When not working on her latest art project, she can be found reading on the beaches of Tel Aviv, Heli-Skiing in the back country terrain of Canada or walking in her hometown, New York City. She is currently an adjunct professor at Pratt Institute for 2018-2019.
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Jan Lauren GreenfieldMixed Media Artist New York |
