Jamie Weinfurter

Jamie Weinfurter is an Assistant Professor-Fixed Term at Michigan State University. She is currently researching discarded household objects, rebuilding them to celebrate queer homemaking and the “little things” in life, while exposing the negative effects of consumer culture, unsustainable materialism, and discredited disability in American capitalistic systems of societal value. She earned an MFA and MA degree in Sculpture & Intermedia from the University of Iowa and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

She has participated in numerous national juried exhibitions across the US and Canada. She has exhibited public sculptures in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Nebraska, Colorado, and Florida as a part of national Sculpture Walk events, and she has created outdoor sculptures at Franconia Sculpture Park, Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum, Josephine Sculpture Park, Salem Art Works, a community sculpture with Audubon Elementary School in Dubuque, IA, and her newest public sculpture at Western North Carolina Sculpture Park in Lenoir, NC. Jamie has gratefully participated as an artist fellow and Program Assistant at NE SCULPTURE | Gallery Factory in Minneapolis, MN; as an Artist-in-Residence with the KLLCB program in Lincoln, NE; and as a Foundry Session I Artist at Salem Art Works. 

Jamie returned to Salem Art Works in the summer of 2024 to teach mold-making and metal casting workshops and assist with the Salem Teen Arts Stone Carving workshop. She recently attended a Winter Residency at Penland School of Craft, was an Iron Light Artist-in-Residence at WNC Sculpture Park, and attended the Mother’s Milk artist residency in Newton, KS, in 2025. Her next solo exhibition will occur in October of 2025 with Avenue for the Arts at The 106 Gallery in Grand Rapids, MI.