MOONbow ARTworks

Jen Otey
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Jen Otey is a wife, mom, grandmother, entrepreneur, teacher, architectural project manager and visual artist. She opened her studio MOONbow ARTworks in 2002 while living in Alaska. In 2010, she moved back to where she grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of Southwest Virginia. Jen is the founding Chair of the Board of Directors for Forge Appalachia, a community nonprofit that focuses on providing creative workshop opportunities in fine art and traditional Appalachian craft, regardless of an individual’s ability to pay. She also works in the realm of building and supporting creative economy in Southwest Virginia, through the arts, culture, heritage, and the outdoors, as the Outdoor Recreation Development Manager for Friends of Southwest Virginia. Jen has been painting for over 25 years. In the last five years she has focused her energy on ceramics, building functional pieces from stoneware slabs. Her paintings and pottery depict and celebrate the diverse native flora and fauna of the Central Appalachian Mountains of Southwest Virginia. You can learn more about her at www.moonbowartworks.com . You can also find Jen on Facebook and Instagram. Just look for MOONbow ARTworks by Jen Otey. Her work is available at the Southwest Virginia Cultural Center in Abingdon, the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Bristol, John C. Campbell Folk School’s Craft Shop in Brasstown, North Carolina, Olive’s Porch Gallery in Murphy, North Carolina, Mark of the Potter, Clarkesville, Georgia, and Formato Fine Arts in Wytheville, Virginia.