Jane Waggoner Deschner

'From The Xstitch Series (Margaret.Mousketeer Ears) #7'

Hand-embroidered inkjet print

“Hand-embroidered inkjet print of scanned personal family photograph. This series is based on a snapshot I (age 10) took of my sister outside our new home in Kansas. I would go to sleep every night wishing I could be a Mouseketeer, though I didn't sing, dance, or act. My mother even made me a blue skirt to wear with the official Mousketeer t-shirt we'd ordered. And, we ironed my name on the front of it.”

— Jane Waggoner Deschner

About the artist

Jane Waggoner Deschner

American

Montana-based Jane Waggoner Deschner has been an exhibiting artist for forty years; for over twenty her medium has been the found family photograph. Her work has been shown in numerous venues including Robert Mann Gallery, NYC (Paris Photo this year!); Fort Collins Museum of Art, CO; University of Michigan–Dearborn; Missoula Art Museum, MT; Churchill Arts, Fallon, NV; and other regional galleries and museums. Her immersive installation, “Remember me.” at the Yellowstone Art Museum closed in January, 2023. Her work has been juried into three Kris Graves Projects photo books (most recently “On Covid”) and selected for online photography exhibits by The Curated Fridge, Humble Arts Foundation, Lenscratch and Photo Trouvée. The Montana Arts Council chose her for an Artist Innovation Award in 2019–20 and a $10,000 ARPA grant in 2022. She has participated in numerous residencies, including Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Ucross Foundation, The Banff Centre, Atlanta Center for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Santa Fe Art Institute. She earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2001. In addition to being a mixed media artist, she works as an exhibition installer, graphic designer, photographer, curator, instructor and picture framer.