Description
Janny Taylor is a Tucson based artist. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the country, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the National Catholic Museum in New York City. Her art and creative work have also been featured in prominent publications such as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and O, The Oprah Magazine.
She is the author and illustrator of the bestselling, critically acclaimed Our Lady of Weight Loss: Miraculous and Motivational Musings from the Patron Saint of Permanent Fat Removal. Taylor is also the co-founder of the Arizona Collage Collective and, with support from a grant from The Pollination Project, recently launched Cut, Paste, SCREAM, a Tucson-based collage initiative that brings creativity and community together through the transformative practice of collage.
Taylor studied at the Art Students League under renowned feminist artist Anita Steckel and at Parsons School of Design, both in New York City.
Producer: Özlem Ayşe Özgür
Videographer: Danny Sax, Özlem Ayşe Özgür
Editor: Nathan Huffman