Jennifer Schelter is a writer, actress, painter, and teacher. She shared in a Tony Award at the Denver Center Theater Company in 1998 and has written and produced four one-woman shows, including Love Lessons from Abu Ghraib, produced by Amnesty International and Interact Theater in Philadelphia. She founded Philadelphia’s largest civic yoga fundraiser and the Radiant Retreat in Mexico, an annual retreat that focuses on nature, personal development, and creativity. Jennifer facilitates programs at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton, Morris Arboretum, and Maine Media Workshops & College. Her watercolor paintings have been exhibited at Connecticut College, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Gwynedd Mercy University, and Woodmere Art Museum. She lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia, enjoying her garden, cats, and art.

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Fun Facts:

I love the underdog and those who create art from the everyday. I am grateful for communities of artists, writers, and creatives on Sandy Neck in Cape Cod, Maine Media Workshop & College, Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Wissahickon woods, cherry blossoms, and autumn leaves along the banks of the Schuylkill River.

Despite dyslexia, I’m an avid reader of memoirs, graphic memoirs, poetry, meditations, fine art, watercolor, sketchbooks, craft books on writing, the creative process, and sensitivity as a spiritual practice.

Books on Asian art, Buddhism, nature, cats, birds, and flowers are stacked as end tables beside my couch. One of my favorite things in the world is being commissioned to create a watercolor of a beloved cat or dog, and/or painting something of remembrance, beauty, and love.