New music video alert!
It was so fun to design this pastel, victorian inspired bedroom - a bit different than what I normally do. Also, when someone cites Alice in Wonderland as their inspiration, you know I’m down.
Some BTS - working with my favorite, Adriane Moreno!
Last weekend I got to show Trauma Bond in Cambridge at an event with Henry Horenstein, Nancy Grace Horton and Stephen DiRado. Thank you to Lesley Art + Design for hosting and Photographic Resource Center for putting this together.
We had some incredible people there and some incredible conversations - it’s always a joy when I leave an event feeling fulfilled and inspired.
Finally, you can enjoy in the comfort of your own home.
It's an honor to receive honorable mention for Beginning of the End at International Photography Awards for their 2023 contest.
Taken on my high school bleachers during a heat wave in summer 2020. I can remember what RISK! podcast I was listening too in my AirPods underneath that sweltering plastic wig. Strange times. Strangely good memories.
It was an absolute honor to take home the Shawna Spirit Award at Shawna Shea Film Festival this year for Trauma Bond - Short Film.
“The Shawna Spirit Award is awarded to a film/screenplay/individual that exemplifies a true independent, bold and unconventional spirit where art is the primary reason for the creative process. Those artists who push the boundaries and norms of the artwork. Truly independent spirits.”
Thank you Skip for all you do for the film community in New England!
If you're curious about Trauma Bond and haven't had the chance to see her yet... you might be in luck. Mark your calendars for October 31...for something special!
My work + free stickers at Somerville Public Library (MA) this month.
I will be there for a little opening reception tonight from 6-8.
Shawna Shea Film Festival is one of the best local festivals around - we are honored to be nominated for Best Long Short!
Come on out next week and see Trauma Bond - Short Film in Worcester, MA on September 21st at 7pm.
Tickets here: https://filmfreeway.com/TheShawnaSheaFilmFestival
Back in 2020 Jerry Russo interviewed 249 artists about what their experience was like making art during COVID and I am honored to have been included. The oral history collection is housed at the Robert S. Cox Special Collections at UMass Amherst.
You can see my interview below if you'd like! Or hear the experience of dozens of other incredible artists.
"Cipriano, a photographer and filmmaker, is used to being alone, to hibernating, and she likes keeping to herself. So when the COVID-19 lockdown started in New York it gave her permission to stay home, make art, and not deal with anything in the outside world. It was like being on an art residency in her own apartment."
So lovely to share Trauma Bond - Short Film with Vermont at Vermont Film Festival this afternoon - it was an honor to be the first film to kick off the entire festival.
Can’t wait to share her with you all soon! The festival run is coming to a close!
So wonderful to share Trauma Bond - Short Film with my stomping ground - Lowell, MA! Big thanks to Dare to Imag9ne Short Film Festival + Imag9ne for having me and doing such a thoughtful Q+A after.
Well, if you missed me in Vermont and Lowell this mark your calendars for Lonely Seal Festival - October 4-8 at The Regent Theatre (Arlington, Massachusetts)!
Come out and see Trauma Bond - Short Film + SUPERDOWN's new video Rattle, both showing during the Women in Film and Video: New England block on Saturday October 7 10am-1pm.
See you there
Shout out to Lucas Hobbes O'Neil who was the DP on BOTH of these projects!
Ah it's been such a good month for this strange little film!
Trauma Bond - Short Film is excited to be screening in September at Shawna Shea Film Festival + LAVA Film Festival- 3rd annual!
Both of these are such wonderful, local festivals.
Shawna Shea will be in Worcester, MA on September 21st at 7pm.
LAVA is in Greenfield, MA. Time TBD.
Shawna tickets: https://filmfreeway.com/TheShawnaSheaFilmFestival
LAVA tickets - it's FREE.
A lovely night at Fountain Street gallery.
Sometimes, seeing the work on the walls helps me think differently about ways to show it. Tonight was one of those nights. Grateful for the ever evolving practice of art making and how it pushes me to grow.
Honored to show alongside Heather Binder + Kathryn Shagas.
“Abstracted presentations of the emotional life and the use of a strong graphical presence come together in the work of September’s Annex artists Kathryn Shagas, Heather Binder, and Jaina Cipriano. Binder uses ceramics as a part of her spiritual practice. For Cipriano, photography in built environments communicates the complex emotions of her growing up. Shagas’ monoprints and mixed media are informed by music and her experiences of the natural world.”
Honored to be on the cover of Passengers Press this month.
I took this photo in 2020 during the height of the COVID lockdown when my anxiety had me stretching truths as far as I could, feeling the end of the world in my bones.
For months I would drive around aimless every afternoon as the sun set and looked for places that called to me - somewhere that felt playful. Then I would dig some costumes and props out from the back of my truck and run to stand in the golden light and try to just be present.
Being present felt impossible for me at that time, in the day to day but in these moments, in these disguises, it was. In small doses, it was.
Photography is magic.
Excited to say this photo is now an official selection in International Photography Awards 2023 contest.
Also, if you want to see the rest of this series you can here: http://www.jainaciprianophotography.com/empty-spaces
Thank you to Happenstance Horror Fest for the honorable mention!
Last summer I had a wonderful designing + directing this crazy video for SUPERDOWN - and it’s finally out now!
Another chance to see Trauma Bond this summer here on the East Coast!
At Dare to Ima9ne - August 26. See you there!
This Saturday, July 20th I have three new works up at 13Forest Gallery in Arlington, MA. The show is called As Luck Would Have It. You can read the artist feature they put up on their website here and see the work.
“Luck and ritual play an unfortunate part in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - these photos explore playful motifs of luck mixed with the shame and isolation that comes from OCD rituals. OCD, for me, stems from the inability to let go of control. I often feel that nothing I do will ever be enough to save me - unless I do just the right things, in just the right order then I will not have to face whatever it is I am afraid of.
[You Get to Make the Choice is a] self portrait in a wall of stuffed animals - hidden amongst the carnival prizes that folks are trying to win. Bright, colorful with bold, dramatic lighting - reminiscent of childhood fears and wants.”
I got to talk to the lovely folks over at Boston Art Podcast. Listen here!
