Jewelry/Glass

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Artist Bio

Jennifer Lipman-Bartel has welded steel sculptural furniture at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, has created metal jewelry at Moore College of Art & Design and has a degree from Boston University. As an artist she has displayed her jewelry and art work in many art galleries and galas in the Delaware Valley. The National Liberty Museum, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Painted Bride Arts Center, The Pennsylvania Ballet Gala, The Print Center, The Wayne Arts Center, Art Reach, Art in City Hall, to name a few.

Jennifer’s glass beaded jewelry pieces are all unique, one of a kind designs. Incorporating semi-precious stones, metals, rare and unusual glass beads, glass eyes, unusual objects and milagros. Specializing in glass, she creates custom pieces for individual clients.

As a cancer survivor, she has donated her work to many legal aide organizations and charities that help people with cancer and disabilities in the Delaware Valley.

Both as craftsman and resin model makers, Jennifer and her husband Mike Bartel operate a hobby model manufacturing company called IMPERIAL HOBBY PRODUCTIONS that create kits and accessories for model ship builders and model train railroaders.

Our clients have been SEPTA, AKER Philadelphia Shipyard & Kinkisharyo.

Our ship model work has been featured on the Television Science Channel Program “How It’s Made” Oil Tanker Episode for Aker Philadelphia Shipyard 2009.

Education

Boston University, Boston, MA
BA

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Steel Sculpture & Casting

Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
Jewelry Studio/Metalsmithing

Professional Experience

2003 – 2011
Imperial Hobby Productions
Hobby Train & Ship Manufacturer. Resin Casting.

1996 – 2011
Member, International Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE).
Movie & Television Union

1997 – 2011
Associate Member, F.O.P. Philadelphia, PA.

1991 – 1995
Assistant, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Exhibitions

2011
The French Connection, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition

2011
Glass Now, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition

2010
Glass Now, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition

2009 – 2010
Craft Forms – Reflections in Glass, Wayne Arts Center, Wayne, PA
Juried Exhibition

All About Art, Moss Rehab, Elkins Park, PA
Juried Exhibition

2009
Glass Now, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition

Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA

Into The Woods, Saint March Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Between the Sheets, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA

October Fund Raiser, Aids Coalition of Southern New Jersey

Bibliography

2011
“Philly Artist Whose Work Benefits People in more Direct Ways,” University City Review, September 21, 2011

“Philadelphia’s Jennifer Lipman-Bartel Inspires at Moss Rehab’s All About Art Show in Elkins Park,” Narberth-BalaCynwyd Patch, May 27, 2011

2004
“Rebirth of a Notion,” Philadelphia City Paper, April 22, 2004