Jody Servon

Jody Servon received a MFA in New Genre from The University of Arizona and a BFA in Visual Art from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Servon’s collaborative work Saved: Objects of the Dead with Lorene Delany-Ullman was published as a monograph in 2023 by Artsuite. Select works from this project have also been published in AGNI, Tupelo Quarterly, Palaver, Lunch Ticket and the book was reviewed in Rain Taxi and Los Angeles Review of Books. Servon’s writing and/or art has been featured in New American Paintings, Emergency Index, Kakalak, and Artful Dodge. Reviews and articles on her projects have been in The New York Times, The Miami Herald, Arizona Daily Star, Los Angeles Times, CNN Style and Time magazine’s Money.com. She has participated in numerous artist residencies including Vermont Studio Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Artspace, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Fish Factory in Iceland and Trabajo Practico in Spain.

Servon has served on numerous boards including: Elsewhere Museum, North Carolina Museums Council, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts and the Center for Craft. She also curated exhibitions focused on contemporary art and worked as a curator at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art in Florida, and she was the director of the Smith Gallery at Appalachian State University. Exhibition reviews of curatorial projects have appeared in Artnews, South Florida Times, Palm Beach Daily News, The Miami Herald, Neural Online and El Pais. Currently Servon is a professor and coordinator of the art management program at Appalachian State University in North Carolina.

Areas of expertise

• Art
• Curating
• Art and cultural organizations
• Internships
• Collaborating
• Creative processing of grief