My work explores the fluidity of identity and the resilience of human experience. I find meaning in ceramic forms and everyday materials—tile, found objects, and fiber. Through saturated colors and the processes of layering, breaking, and rebuilding, I create paintings and winding forms that echo the complexity of the human condition. These works shift between control and release, structure and improvisation, reflecting the ways we navigate personal identity, caregiving, and community.

Jenny Snaza is a Reno-based visual artist and educator whose work explores themes of identity, motherhood, transience, and visibility. She creates bold mixed media wall sculptures and ceramic paintings that layer texture, color, and line to evoke the shifting complexity of the human experience. Through these works, the body emerges as both subject and metaphor — a vessel of memory, transformation, and resilience.

In addition to her studio practice, Snaza is a dedicated high school sculpture teacher, where she fosters creativity, curiosity, and self-expression in the next generation of artists. Her dual roles as artist and educator continually inform one another, grounding her practice in both personal reflection and community engagement.

Her recent projects include explorations of the body in relation to care, accumulation, and social space, as well as curatorial work that brings together artists with diverse perspectives on embodiment and identity.

Rooted in Reno’s vibrant creative community, Snaza sees art as a vital space for dialogue — a way to connect individual stories with collective experience and to make visible the threads that bind us together.

She holds a Bachelors of Art in Visual Arts and French Language and Literature from Seattle University and a Masters in Teaching Secondary Visual Art from Sierra Nevada University. Her work has been shown nationally in both solo and group exhibitions. CV

Inquiries: jennysnaza.studio(at)gmail.com

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