Jennifer Hand

Popped Cherry

Blown glass

“‘Popped Cherry’ is one in a series of works exploring the loaded language surrounding female sexuality using the device of the cherry.” — Jennifer Hand

About the artist

Jennifer Hand

Jennifer Hand is a Norfolk, Virginia-based glass artist, writer, curator, mother, and veteran. Living and traveling abroad have awakened her curiosity about how different cultural taboos exert influence on the lives and bodies of women. Her creative practice uses the allure of glass in a lush palette of pinks to explore and resist sociocultural pressures upon the lives and bodies of women. Both lover and mother, Jennifer reminds the viewer that her daughters are not the result of immaculate conception, but conceived with the same passion she pours into her work. Jen holds a BFA in craft with a minor in art history from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is an alumna of the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio Assistant Residency and a 2018 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts undergraduate fellow.

Jennifer is the conference and events manager for the Glass Art Society, a board member of the 757 Creative Reuse Center, a co-founder of the Lil Truck of Tools, the co-founder of the 757 Street Art Battle, and a masters candidate for the critical craft studies program at Warren Wilson College.