About

 

Jensen has received numerous awards and recognition, most recently the McKnight Fellowship for mid-career Fiber Artists with the Textile Center in Minneapolis, MN. She has previously received a 2009 Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Grant from the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, exhibited her work in several group shows from Tokyo to Paris, and had a solo show in 2023 at the Watermark Art Center in Bemidji. Her work was recently selected for inclusion in the Arts in Embassies program and will be on display at the US Embassy in Djibouti, beginning April, 2025; and she will be featured in an upcoming exhibition with the Middle American Arts Alliance and the Scandinavian-American Foundation entitled Nordic Echoes that will open at Scandinavia House in New York City. It will then travel to museums through the Upper Midwest over the next three years, supported by funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Her love of weaving has manifest in projects with All My Relations Arts in Minneapolis, the 2024 Art Shanty Projects, and North House Folk School in Grand Marais. Jensen works out of her studio in South Minneapolis.