DVAA Member since 2024
Jillian M Rock
2025 DVAA Linda Dubin Garfield FELLOW
WEBsite: @jillianmrock
About:
Jillian M Rock is a self-taught multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Philadelphia. Her current personal practice focuses on the exploration of place and placemaking. Specifically, the intersection at which the past, present, and future play on the narratives of Blackness; and how memory is used to illuminate and deepen the human experience. Her teaching artist practice is centered in creating curricula around social justice, identity, and creating an experience that deepens community and encourages expression individually and most importantly collectively. Rock has been an Artist in Residence at The Museum of Motherhood in St. Pete's FL, a Feminist in Residence at Project for Empty Space in Newark, NJ, as well as a concurrent Risography Resident at Print St. Pete's. She is an alumni of the Creative Capital's Professional Development Program. Rock has served as an inaugural member of the Board of Directors at the Newark Print Shop, where she developed her passion for community programming and outreach through printmaking. She has taught at Studio Montclair, The Newark Printshop, The Yard Art School at The Montclair Museum of Art, as well as freelancing workshops and classes. She is the owner of Rock Press, a Black woman run printing press aimed at amplifying access to the creation and dissemination of artists’ books, printed matter, and programming. Rock is currently a faculty member at Fleisher Art Memorial. She was a recipient of the Bartol/Marrazzo Teaching Artist Micro-Grant, a fellow with Mural Arts Fellowship for Black Artist, and a 2024 Artist In Recent Resident with Cherry Street Pier. Her most recent series “Celestial Movements I-IV” will be on view in August 2024, at The Bishop Gallery in Brooklyn NY in partnership with Baldwin for the Arts and Incite Columbia “I See My Light Shining” Elders Project. Pieces from the series will then be on view at The Athenaeum in Philadelphia for the months of September & October 2024.
