Art Residency

Jennifer Norback’s commitment and sensitivity to the unique needs of the artist has been forged out of a 30 year career in the International Contemporary Art World. Poised between Paris and Chicago, first as a gallery director, then as a gallery owner, she met and became close to some of the most influential people working in the arts today. In addition to the monthly exhibition cycle of Chicago’s River North Gallery District where it was headquartered, her gallery, Jennifer Norback Fine Art, Inc., exhibited regularly in Paris and Greece and participated in the international art fairs of Paris, New York, Chicago, and Beirut. She has served as guest curator for many prestigious art institutions including the Chicago’s Cultural Center, The Australian Embassy of Washington DC, and LUMA. Most recently in the role of Executive Director of the Oak Park Art League, she developed studio spaces for working artists and course content for educators in the arts. She is looking forward to utilizing her full background in building up the Teravana Art Residency program.

Barry Ebner is a Bay Area based internationally recognized artist who primarily works with techniques of intaglio and monotype. Over the last 25 years he has had over 20 solo exhibitions, throughout California and the western part of the United States. He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas and his Master of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Printmaking from the California College of the Arts. Along with pursuing his studio work he is also an Instructor at the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco. He most recently led a printmaking collaboration in Santiago, Chile working with 11 other artists to create an exhibition of collaborative monoprints that were exhibited in Valparaiso, Chile. He works out of The Studio of Nothing Else. His work is primarily abstract, but a love of nature and living on the California coast has inspired him to explore a side track of plein aire painting. Instagrams: ebnersart & Coastpaintings