About MAC

Montana Arts Council Members

Jane Waggoner Deschner

Jane Waggoner Deschner is an artist whose medium is the vernacular, or found, photograph. Facilitated by increasingly sophisticated digital technology and the age-old art of needle-in-hand, she explores new ways of seeing these ubiquitous, but often overlooked, products of mass culture.

Currently her work is traveling throughout Montana and Wyoming as part of their ArtMobile programs that bring original, contemporary art to under-served rural areas. In January 2008, her work was included in “Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate,” a national juried exhibition organized by Helena, Montana’s Holter Museum of Art and the Montana Human Rights Network. She was selected for the thematic artist residency, “Making Artistic Inquiry Visible,” at The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, occurring in May and June 2008. In 2006, she co-authored and designed the book, Artists-In-Residence: The Creative Center’s Approach to Arts in Healthcare with The Creative Center in New York City. She earned her Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art from Vermont College in February 2002.

In addition to creating her own artwork, she works as a curator; gallery director at Rocky Mountain College; consultant to arts in healthcare programs; coordinator of large public art projects; and free-lancer in graphic design, editing and publishing. Her work is in the collections of Federal Reserve Banks in Minneapolis, MN and Helena, MT; University of Montana; Montana State University–Billings Foundation; Yellowstone Public Radio; Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY; Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT; and individuals across the US and in South Korea.

Term: 5/08 – 2/13