User:Wisconsin dormouse/Jenny Schmid

Jenny Schmid (born ?? ??, ???? in ????, ????) is an American artist and printmaker. She lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

Education
Schmid earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan, where she studied from ????-????.

Artwork
Walker is noted for using traditional and digital printmaking tools and techniques to design and print large-scale contemporary lithographs that emulate turn of the century propaganda posters. Reflective of contentious U.S. foreign policy issues and the implications of endless occupation, Walker uses nostalgia as a means of highlighting persistent domestic relationships between industry, agriculture, and mechanized warfare. As opposed to clarifying any particular issues-based political agenda, the dystopic content of Walker's work instead extolls propaganda for its own sake. Oversimplified directives and bold imagery - traditional tactics of visual propagandists meant to elicit automatic emotional allegiance to agitation or integration activities - are in Walker's work pitted against themselves to reveal a complex web of self-generated mythologies that continue to define contemporary visual articulations of labor, national pride, patriarchy, and patriotism.

Exhibitions and collections
Schmid's work has been included in juried and invitational international group, biennial, and triennial exhibitions, including ...

Her work is housed in multiple public collections, including the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, and the Spencer Museum of Art.

Schmid has been the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a McKnight Fellowship, the Bush Artists Grant, a Jerome Foundation Film and Video Grant, and a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant.

Academic career
Schmid serves as an Associate Professor in Printmaking at the University of Minnesota.