Everything That Rises, 2016
oil on canvas

Jennings—described as a “radical nun” by Judy Chicago—worked closely with Carole Fisher to develop a studio curriculum for the Arts Core Program for Women that provided a safe environment for women artists to explore feminism in their work. Jennings spent a summer in California “training” with Chicago for the program, and appropriately described the Arts Core as “pioneering” in its approach of women-centered art instruction combined with a women-only community of support.

Artist statement:
"I’ve been primarily a printmaker and gardener. Over the years my art became increasingly about landscape and spiritual search. For some years my prints were abstract landscapes with an interior light; more recently the imagery more closely relates to the garden I’ve been creating over 30 some years. Images remain abstract, but the light is brighter, more naturalistic, the feeling more expansive and affirming. Almost all of this work incorporates an upward movement (aspiring) as I’ve kept thinking (hoping) that "everything that rises [might eventually] converge."