Jennifer is an art historian, a writer, and podcaster with a background in teaching.
Jennifer lives, works, reads, and podcasts in Quebec.
She is available for speaking engagements throughout Canada, the U.S., and beyond.
Contact Jennifer for more info.
Publications and Presentations
“Women’s Work: Inuit Nunaganimiut Aranait Sanaguiagalirinigata, The Arctic Women’s Workshop.” Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles. 2025.
“Women’s Work: Inuit Nunaganimiut Aranait Sanaguagalirinigata, a reconsideration of Canadian craft, and the transformation of Inuit art governing systems, 1967-1973” presentation at AHGSA Conference, February 16-17, 2024, Concordia University, Montreal QC. 2024.
“Entangled: Three Arctic Communities, Textiles, and Mid-Century Modernisms in Canada. Queen’s University, Kingston ON. 2023.
“Dyed in the Wool: Pangnirtung Weaving, Eastern Arctic Colour, and Canadian Art Markets.” Public Lecture to Kingston Weaving Guild, Kingston ON. 2023.
“Cut My Coat: The Inuvik Parka Enterprise.” CanadARThistories. 2021.
“A Taste for the True North: Northern Textiles in Southern Markets” presentation at UAAC conference, 15-19 October, digital conference. 2020.
“Sealskin Stencils, Prints on Paper: Printed Fabrics from Kinngait” guest lecture given in ARTH 352, ‘Studies in the History of Fibre Art’ class, Fall Term, Concordia University Montreal QC. 2020.
Vorano, Norman, and Jennifer Burgess. “Even Banks Have Large Windows That All Need Draperies’: Marketing Canada in Cape Dorset Textiles.”ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅᑕᐃᑦ ᓯᑯᓯᓛᕐᒥᑦ Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios. Textile Museum of Canada. Toronto ON: 2019.
“Ivalu: Community and Connection through Northern Fibre Arts” presentation at UAAC conference, 25-27 October, University of Waterloo ON. 2018.
“The Women in Black: The Art Historienne’s Habitus.” SCAN. University of Manitoba. Winnipeg MB: 2018.
“Canada’s True North” guest lecture given in ARTH 228 ‘Histories of Contemporary Art’ class, Winter Term, Queen’s University, Kingston ON. 2018.
“The Pliable Plane: Textiles, Space, and the Work of Anni Albers” published in Women Designers, Craftswomen, Architects and Engineers Between 1918 and 1945. Modern Women’s Movement (MoMoWo) and the France Stele Institute of Art History. Ljubljana, SI: 2017.
“Fibre Art and Money: Southern Markets for Northern Textiles” guest lecture given in ARTH 231 ‘Canadian Art of the Long Nineteenth Century’ class, Fall Term, Queen’s University, Kingston ON. 2017.
“Ivalu: Fibre Art in Three Inuit Communities” guest lecture given in ARTH 301 ‘The Material Object Cloth and Clothing’ class, Fall Term, Queen’s University, Kingston ON. 2017.
“The Pliable Plane: Textiles, Space, and the Work of Anni Albers” public lecture for the Kingston Weaving Guild, Kingston, ON. 2016.
“The Pliable Plane” conference paper given at Modern Women’s Movement (MoMoWo) conference in Leiden, Netherlands. 2015.
“Bauhaus Bride or Master of Space: The Textile Works of Anni Albers” conference paper given at Context and Meaning in Kingston ON. 2014.