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Jen Berger works as an interdisciplinary, community, and socially engaged artist and educator. She has lived in Burlington since 2001. Jen uses street, stage and guerilla theater, visual arts, painting, printmaking, puppetry, video for education, and dialogue to raise awareness and intervene in social issues that affect us all.

Jen also works as a teaching artist, working with students, who are in early childhood through adult-aged students.
Jen has been devising projects to engage her community for many years. Her creative commitment to the Old North End has resulted in two residencies at the Integrated Arts Academy, one resulting in a mural that hung at the top of the Rt 127 bike path entrance and a performance-based cooking class at the Old North End farmers market to help neighbors become more comfortable in creating recipes based on the vegetables available each week, and most recently "We Didn't Expect This to Happen - A Mural". 

She is currently adjunct faculty at the Community College of Vermont and Champlain College, and creating community engagement opportunities through her new project ‘At the Root’. 



​We Didn't Expect This. A mural. 2020

We Didn't Expect This. A mural 
is the re-conceived project* that was a public art response to revealing and healing experiences of Burlingtonians in the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was created through community input, asking neighbors to  share their experiences in the first two months of COVID.
They were asked to share what you are comfortable with, using imagery, single words, or brief descriptions. For example, one image we have all gotten used to are face masks. What does a face mask mean to you? What is an image or experience from your household? How have you and/or your family been coping? What are you enjoying? What has been the most difficult? What are you grateful for? What are you hopeful for in the future? What else has been on your mind?


The responses were compiled into a cohesive visual representation. 

My hope is the mural will provide a space to witness lives and experiences like and unlike our own. A place where we can find connection during a time where that is uncomfortably difficult. A place that we can ​revel in the joys and tears of what we have all experienced in the last couple of months. 
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This project was funded by the BCA Community Art Fund.

jen's art & products

Hug Mug

$10.00

made during COVID. A little love for your friends and family

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Individual Prints

$10.00 - $15.00

Can print most colors to order on cardstock, fabric, or fine cardboard

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Print & Card packs

$40.00

6 prints and cards; 2 each of Red Clover, I Hug You, and Hug Mug. All new designs in 2020.

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I Hug You

$10.00

Send a hug, until you can in person again. Image is 5"x7", print may be larger. Please specify if you have a preference. Can print most colors to order.

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RBG Dissent Collar Print

$12.00

5"x7" print of RBG dissent collar. 50% of proceeds go to the ACLU

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Anatomical Heart Print

$10.00

Send love to your friends and family, the anatomical way

6x8

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No Hate in Our State

$12.00

Multiple color print. 6x8

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Cat Print

$10.00

Cat print. 6"x8"

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"What Happens Outside of the Kitchen" 5'x7"print set by jen berger

$20.00

One print of each of the eight paintings in this series that depicts women that have influenced the artist in her life.

https://creatingresistance.weebly.com/what-happens-outside-of-the-kitchen.html



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OUR MISSION
At the Root LLC, provides resources and events for artists, mission-driven small business, and  non-profit organizations to nourish and support social justice work through art, food, and community events.
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CONTACT
attherootvt@gmail.com
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802.391.0598
  • Home
    • Press and Public Presentations
    • About
    • jen's Art
  • What we Do
    • Tending Seeds - Support for Artists and Small Businesses
    • Community Engagement & Events >
      • Art Making Workshops >
        • The Art of Reproduction
      • Education
      • Creative Events
    • Teaching Artist Work
    • Participatory Installations >
      • Viscosity
      • The Opposite of hate is mending
      • From COVID to Community
      • We Didn't Expect This - A Mural
  • Upcoming Events
  • Over Dinner Series
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