Jeanne Criscola

As a designer/educator, Jeanne Criscola exploits their intersections. She collaborates with foundations and organizations on social justice projects through her design practice, Criscola Design and with authors on cultural production multiples with the imprint Useless Press and OctoberWorks. In 2015, Jeanne founded the Ely Center of Contemporary Art to recharge its legacy as a public art center in New Haven, CT. She co-founded Else Foundation, a global consortium publishing Else, an occasional...See more

As a designer/educator, Jeanne Criscola exploits their intersections. She collaborates with foundations and organizations on social justice projects through her design practice, Criscola Design and with authors on cultural production multiples with the imprint Useless Press and OctoberWorks. In 2015, Jeanne founded the Ely Center of Contemporary Art to recharge its legacy as a public art center in New Haven, CT. She co-founded Else Foundation, a global consortium publishing Else, an occasional peer-reviewed journal of creative research initiatives in experimental and alternative works, projects, and thematic research. Her artworks take the form of the book, drawing, moving image, installation, generative-art, and performance. Jeanne's most high-profile and award-winning projects are the books she created for the Soros Foundation with one in the Franklin Furnace Artists' Book Collection at MoMA. Her recent book, A Mouth Full: The Re-Cookbook, takes the archetypal cookbook beyond images of food and recipes that make your mouth water. It's a prototype for rethinking what a cookbook evokes and what it can become-a place where the mind can wander through memories of food, recipes, people, and places that make us who we are.Criscola is an Associate Professor Central Connecticut State University teaching Graphic/Information Design. For a portfolio of selected work, visit www.criscoladesign.com. See less