Mandeberg, Jean

Jean Mandeberg is a visual artist, a faculty member at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, and a community arts advocate.  She received an Artist Trust Fellowship, her work can be seen in numerous public and private collections in the United States, and her work was most recently published in 500 Metal Vessels, edited by Marthe LeVan, Lark Books, Asheville, N.C.

She is a member of the Visual Arts Faculty at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA and serves on the Board of the Washington State Arts Commission, appointed by Governor Christine Gregoire in 2006 and 2009.

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Jean Mandeberg is a visual artist, a faculty member at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, and a community arts advocate.  She received an Artist Trust Fellowship, her work can be seen in numerous public and private collections in the United States, and her work was most recently published in 500 Metal Vessels, edited by Marthe LeVan, Lark Books, Asheville, N.C.

She is a member of the Visual Arts Faculty at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA and serves on the Board of the Washington State Arts Commission, appointed by Governor Christine Gregoire in 2006 and 2009.

Checkerboard Chair

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Jean’s art often references the psychological and cultural meaning of play as a fundamental human activity that invites competition, cheating, and opportunities to experience luck.  In work such as this child's chair she rescues beautiful found metal and obsessively covers a wooden form with patterned and embossed tin. The focus is a game, and the chair becomes a gameboard.