TO BE HONEST ...

This is my first serious adventure back into fine arts since I attended college. Let me explain….

My name is Jennifer A Kauffman, but many people just call me JAK.

 

I guess you could call me a Jak-of-all-trades because I have done many things professionally throughout my life. I won’t go into all of them, but I just moved to Colorado 3 years ago from San Francisco, where I lived for 30 years.

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In San Francisco for my first 15 years, I started my professional career as a graphic artist. Soon I became an art director/producer where I designed and produced corporate events and traveled all over the world with many of the fortune 100 companies for which San Francisco is known.

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In the second part of my 15 years in San Francisco, I was a very successful Realtor.

 

Then COVID hit and I decided to get out of the city and move to Colorado (where I had lived prior) where many of my family members lived, including my son and grandboys.

 

Once in Colorado, I reinvent myself! 

 

I have always had a passion for horses and had a horse of my own (Beau has passed and I use him in my. logo) who I brought with me from San Francisco. I quickly joined the Colorado horse community and with that I became a therapeutic horse-riding instructor at a ranch called Miracles Therapeutic Riding Center. And I am currently developing a Youth Riding Program at a ranch called Carlisle Equestrian Center.

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​And now to get back to my art, I got a very part time job working at a gallery in Lafayette CO, called the Collective. At the Collective. I am a substitute gallery docent and help with the gallery and many events. Working at the collective inspired me get back into the arts and that is where I find myself today.

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This is my first entry into a call for art.

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