Jennifer Lewis is a mixed-media artist who is currently working congruently on two different bodies of work.
Her primary focus has been creating the Star of David Project, a body of work that addresses the human scale of the Holocaust. This project began in the spring of 2024 after learning that her 2nd great-grandmother died in the Holocaust at the Lodz Ghetto from starvation. The work speaks to the tremendous human toll of the Holocaust and the generational effect it has had on the Jewish community.
Lewis’s other body of work uses a technique called quilling. She tightly rolls colored paper and places it to depict idyllic scenes filled with color and patterns. Lewis uses patterns seen either in dreams or impossibly gorgeous landscapes.
Jennifer resides in Chattanooga, TN, with her husband Rabbi Craig Lewis, son, two English Bulldogs, and two cats. Lewis works out of her home studio, runs a nonprofit arts organization serving local artists, and runs a religious school program for the Jewish community of Chattanooga.