To celebrate the close of my series of mini-retreats based on Body Poem I decided to make a new recording of my song Mystery which I wrote in 2016....
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I made this today. It’s me and my guitar in my studio. –—> Mystery (in-studio recording (Oct 17, 2019) I wrote this song in Nov 2016 after the election....
The project I am most excited to be starting is called “Goddess Meditations” which is a series of iconic goddess shapes which celebrate the female body as divine. I...
Here is a list I made based off of a “How To Fail As An Artist” blog by Alyson Stanfield (unfortunately I cannot find a link to her blogpost...
Rivers of Colorado 36″x24″ Acrylic on canvas 2016 A few months ago my brother, who has relocated to Denver, commissioned me to paint a portrait of the rivers of...
A beautiful Louisiana sunset I went to massage school at Health Choices Holistic Healing School in Hillsboro, NJ from 2002-2003. It was a precious gem of a school which...
I’m making some changes in my arts practice. I’ve decided to put down my acrylic paint and singular devotion to sacred bones with sweet hearts and see what else...
People often think of sound healing as being limited to playing some kind of magic song to wipe away all stress and worry. While people do make music designed...
This week I wanted to write about some of my teachers who have been inspirations for me. I believe the ritual of making art creates a bridge between the...
47:03 min In this episode we were joined by Render, a reiki healer and tattoo artist, and Kezia Vida, a dream worker and WTUL radio host, both of whom...
One of the beautiful gifts of art is that it gives us a platform to express our dreams. I believe that we are all striving to return to a...
“Bodies always speak to us in the language of love.” – Robin Rose Bennett, The Gift of Herbal Medicine I haven’t yet written on this blog about why I...
Ive decided to write about my the piece I often call my thesis: See With Your Heart. I feel like a metaphor for my work as a street artist...
My personal essential oil collection with dolphins Im sad to write this post but I feel a responsibility to raise awareness about what I now understand about my relationship...
Gaia, Acrylic on stretched canvas, 12″ x 24″, 2015 Gaia detail Gaia detail As these paintings are more musings on various Goddesses that detailed representations I don’t feel drawn...
This painting is called Feminine Divine and is in a series I’m beginning called Goddess Meditations. Im inspired by myths, rituals, and art about Goddess archetypes. Through out the...
In 2009 I moved to California to go to graduate school and I started developing intense sciatic pain. I couldn’t sit too long in any position without discomfort. I...
Ive been taking an online class called Creative Content Camp with Alyson Stanfield, an art buisness coach, about developing promotional content and engaging social media. Its got me feeling...
Virginia Brisley and I continue our Sound Philosophy Podcast!!! As I talked about in my last post, we started doing these podcasts last year to explore the magic of...
Jenelle + Virginia + Red wood tree = Collabo Industries presents Sound Philosophy Dinners!!!!https://www.jenelleleighcampion.com/podcast Today we are announcing the next evolution of our Podcast. My partner, Virginia Brisley, and...
18:15 min Virginia and Jenelle welcome you to join them for dinner as they discuss how sound interacts with their lives. This is the first in a series...
10:53 min This is a Collabo Industries original song written as a gift for a new star. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International...
Signs of shifts towards autumn are staring to creep through the heat haze of southern Louisiana. I haven’t been out selling much. Any day over 95 degrees is too...
Im announcing the start of Daily Blossoms. Spring in New Orleans is a luscious experience of vibrant petals, sweet scented nectar and green, green, green. To welcome in the...
Instagram: @JenelleLeighC As a child I never liked drawing hands. Getting the articulations of the fingers right intimidated me to the point of avoiding drawing people completely. In 4th...
Photo by me from Austin, TX When I was in middle school I starting building a rock collection. I was in love with the color and texture that came...
Instagram: @JenelleLeighC Its been about 4 months since I moved my art/life up to Jackson Square. Adjusting to new rhythms and routines has been good and given me a...
I got a new toy in the mail: The Tori Amos Lomographic camera box set. Instagram: @JenelleLeighC When this deluxe package (which comes with a live recording of a...
1:59 min For two weeks in May 2014 Jenelle and Virginia made a conscious effort to capture the beautiful noise of life. The resulting sound collage is a...
21:16 min On this episode Virginia and Jenelle discuss a list of “Sound Facts” and talk about the intersection of science and sound. Some of the quotes we...
40:25 min In this second episode of the Sound Philosophy Podcast with Jenelle Leigh Campion and Virginia Brisley we talk about the Sacred Music Festival which happened at...
Getting this permit means Ill be able to support myself by selling art. Coming out of grad school in 2012 I had my sights set on selling art in...
38:10 min Jenelle Leigh Campion and Virginia Brisley discuss their philosophical understanding of “sound healing” in connection to creating music and experiencing the healing influence of sound. This...
I have spent the last year and a half since leaving the MFA program in New Orleans working as a visual artist on Pirates Alley at the center of...
I’ve gotten myself involved in a few artistic practices and wanted to write out my thoughts on each of them here in case anyone is curious. There are...
Hellooooo darling internet angels, My album, How To Heal A Broken Heart, which I recorded in 2010 is getting put out on my friends label Campers Rules Records in Brooklyn,...
1. Grounding – The structure of my creative routines assist me in engaging with my feelings. It takes time to climb up and down the ladder of my psyche....
Its a beautiful to be sitting in Pirates Alley behind St. Louis cathedral reading feminist essays on religion on national “talk like a pirate” day.
I’m unapologetic for making declarative statements about how I intend to make use of this blog and then not following through with them. It’s partly because I am a...
Ive watched this video twice now. Her talk helps me to both take the pressure off of the fear of expressing myself and bolsters up my urge to put...
I went down to the french quarter at 7am to set up my spot for the day. Well not set up, but I put up a few signs to...
Donovan, Tara. Untitled. 2003. Styrofoam Cups, Hot Glue. Ace Gallery, Los Angeles. Tara Donavan‘s work inspires me because she has an interesting sense of articulation through pattern. She takes...
This link will take you to an article by Orion Magazine (an environmental rag) about the artist Basia Iriland. She takes blocks of ice, carves them into books, adds...
I’ve been using my studio time for the last few days to reprint my Mississippi River painting. I realized that I needed a way to calculate how much to...
One of my Beautiful Bodies was auctioned at a recent fundraiser for RUBARB, a volunteer-run community bike shop in the 9th ward, New Orleans. The fundraiser, held on March...
River Styx: underground river of grecoroman myth where Charon ferries departed souls to the other side. It used to be a custom to bury the dead with two coins...
Firstly I have Petrarchan and Shakespearean Sonnets. Then I took the two poems and mashed them together to make a third creation. Enjoy! Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet A velvet lined...
Hello lovelies, I said in my last post that I was going to start making copies of my rivers but that has taken a bit of a turn. I...
The last 6 months have been a whirl wind for me. Between graduating with an MFA degree and moving back to New Orleans my life has been a vortex...
I am excited to say that I am going to be showing some of my work at Voodoo Fest in New Orleans. The Big Top Gallery is going to...
Hello internets, I have some follow up thoughts to yesterdays post about my MFA experience. I found the MFA in Creative Inquiry program challenged me to build the schematics...
The MFA department at CIIS asked me to reflect on my experiences in the Creative Inquiry department and I am reposting my responses here. Enjoy!— What were the most...
http://photos.nola.com/tpphotos/2012/09/16lvezantieaugallery1.html (Photo by Steven Foster)
Hello Internet, If you didn’t already know I have moved back to New Orleans to resettle and begin my life as artist in the world. I had lived here...
Gratitude for everyone who was able to attend! You all light up my life. Thanks also to the CIIS Minna Street Gallery for hosting the event. (photos by...
I am quoted in the article “My Body, My Voice, My Power: Burlesque, the Antidote” by my friend Janna Zinzi… (Read the whole article here) This speaks directly to...
Black Madonna of Czestochowa Originally uploaded by JLCampion I was assigned to do a peice working with symbols that relate to my ancestry. My father’s family traces back to...
I read back through my writings of this semester and pulled out my list of vocabulary words I chose. ResonancePatternSpaceBody AwarenessDirectionLoveDesireCuriosityDialogueIntuitionPerceptionInfinityPlaySurrenderWork If I put them in a row together...
Reposted from CIIS MFA blog:By JENELLE CAMPION, student in the Creative Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Arts MFA program On Saturday, Sept. 11, Saturday Night @ CIIS launched its fall presentation series with a talk by Alonzo King,...
I was reading The Spiritual Dynamic In Modern Art by Charlene Spretnak and wanted to post some images of art she references. MODERNISTS:Georgia O’Keefe –“Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV” 1930 “Black...
I used to work at Our Lady of Lourdes School in Porcupine, SD on the Pine Ridge Reservation. It was really good to paint because I had to spend...