Jeanne Criscola has built her professional reputation by integrating her deep experience as an artist, designer, and educator. She collaborates with individuals and with international organizations on projects that feature both arts and culture issues and social justice initiatives. Her artworks, which have been exhibited internationally, take the form of the book, drawing, photography, moving image, installation, generative art, and performance.

Jeanne’s most high-profile publications and exhibitions are the many award-winning projects she has created for the Soros Foundations, one of which is in the Franklin Furnace collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Her design practice, Criscola Design, LLC, has been engaged in collaboration with institutions and individuals since 1985. Jeanne has worked with many artists and authors to publish their works and her new initiative, Useless Press, was conceived to publish and print the works of artists, authors, and children as on-demand multiples. In 2016, Jeanne founded the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven, CT to continue a legacy contemporary public art center in New Haven. She recently co-founded Else Foundation, a global consortium of artists, scholars, and institutions publishing an occasional peer-reviewed journal of its creative research initiatives in experimental and alternative works, projects, and thematic research working with and in the space in-between. Jeanne earned her MFA from Transart Institute, University of Danube, her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an AS degree in Art from Endicott College. 

Currently, Jeanne is Assistant Professor of Graphic+Information Design at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT.