Jena Seiler, Ph.D.

Lecturer

About Me

Jena Seiler is a lecturer at the Lewis Honors College and an interdisciplinary artist. She has a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary arts and an MFA in painting from Ohio University. Seiler has taught classes in studio art, art appreciation, and art history. Formerly, she was an assistant professor of studio art at the Kentucky College of Art + Design and an Ohio University program assistant in a semester-length study abroad program in London, England focused on the fine arts. 

Ask Me About...

• Creative endeavors and learning through making.  
• Adobe Software, including Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Lightroom, and InDesign. 
• Growing up in rural Northern New Mexico. 

Research

My work focuses on the everyday as a subject of inquiry and awe. I am interested in how visual and auditory media can bring overlooked environments into perceptibility and reveal issues of power and the limits of representation. Working across a variety of media, I have developed an expansive creative practice that has led me to collaborate with diverse artists and exhibit in solo exhibitions, collaborative group shows, and film festivals. Film collaborator Tijah Bumgarner and I have won several film awards for our collaborative work, including Best Editor from the Oil Valley Film Festival for Bumgarner’s feature length film Meadow Bridge. We were also awarded an Experimental Forum Honorable Mention for our experimental short film Becoming Annette and the UPIKE School of Social Work Impact Award for our feature documentary Picture Proof. I was the recipient of a Great Meadows Foundation artist grant that gave me the opportunity to travel to Documenta 15 in Kassel, Germany.