Jen Harris

Featured Print: Fearless Forager #1: Ramps & Morels


Fearless Forager #1: Ramps & Morels | 15″ x 22″
Screenprint on White Lenox
50 in Edition | $45
click to view gallery“I was inspired to make the Fearless Forager prints after I moved upstate (from New York City) and began mushroom-hunting and foraging for other wild plants,” explains Jen. “There’s something so exciting about seeing that first morel poking its head up, as if from the underworld, and then suddenly spotting a whole field of mushrooms that were invisible just moments before. I’ve learned about a bunch of other edible and/or medicinal wild plants since moving here: ramps (a.k.a. wild garlic or wild leeks), dandelion greens, wild sorrel, and a host of common weeds. Ramps and morels both appear in the spring, which is a good thing, because they’re delicious eaten together!”

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Jen Harris is a New York-based painter and graphic artist, and the director of a small design house called Black Sheep Heap. Focusing on projects that promote sustainability, laughter, and social justice, Black Sheep Heap is best-known for the nationally popular BEET THE SYSTEM t-shirts. When she’s not designing, Jen is painting. Her work has been exhibited throughout the country. Recent one-person shows include American Kiss at Daniel Cooney Fine Art (NYC; 2011), Light Weight at John Davis Gallery (Hudson, NY; 2011) and Conversations at The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (Wilmington; 2010). Jen received grants from both the Astraea Visual Arts Fund and the Puffin Foundation in 2011. Among other honors she has received are a grant from the E.D. Foundation; the Robert C. Bates Traveling Fellowship; selection in the Drawing Center Viewing Program;
and a residency from the Vermont Studio Center. Originally
from Baltimore, she received her BA in Art from Yale University
and her MFA in Painting from Queens College CUNY.