TERRY JENOURE

Dr. Terry Jenoure musician, visual artist, writer and educator was born into a Puerto Rican and Jamaican family and grew up in New York’s Bronx River Housing Projects. Boasting many decades of work as a practicing artist, she began studying violin at age 8, and after 15 years of European Classical music study became a protégé of Free Jazz pioneers, embarking on a fifty-year journey of creative music. A self-taught visual artist who works with assemblage fiber figures and watercolor illustrations, her hand-stitched dolls are carried by the Smithsonian Institute Museum shop and in private collections including the Paul Herzog and Jolene Tritt Collection. Her essays and arts-based research have been referenced by over fifty scholars in publications. She served as graduate faculty over a twenty-year period and has lectured internationally.  She was the Director of Augusta Savage Art Gallery at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst for three decades and has earned numerous awards. Terry has masters and doctoral degrees in Education, and a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy.