Jeanne Williamson Ostroff

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Natick, MA

Year at Millay: 2012

Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (2014); Grant Recipient, Artist's Resource Trust (A.R.T.) Fund for Individuals, Artist’s Resource Trust, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Sheffield, MA (2013); Artist-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (2011); Prize Winner, Best of Show, "Quilt National 2005," The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH (2005); Award Winner, McCarthy Memorial Award, "Quilt National 2005," The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH (2005); Second Prize Winner, "Art Quilts 1993," Guilford Art Center, Guilford, CT (1993).

Website: https://www.jeannewilliamson.com/

Jeanne Williamson Ostroff is a mixed media artist who works mainly with fabric and is inspired by the grids and holes of orange construction fences. She has been sewing since childhood and studied textiles in art school. Her work has been exhibited widely in galleries, museums, and online. She has attended residencies at the Millay Arts, Austerlitz, New York and the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont. Licensed prints have been available at Crate & Barrel, Anthropologie, Annie Selke, and Pottery Barn. Her work is hanging in private homes, and hospital, corporate, and hospitality settings, and has been published in several books and magazines.