Jennifer Haro is a Chicago-based quilter. Her quilts are modern and often rooted in traditional patterning, thus occupying the space of ‘modern traditionalism.’ Her work is about order, precision and pattern, beginning with simple stripes and shapes to create shifts and illusions. Her current work explores dimensionality in quilting, merging functional and sculptural design and intent.

Jennifer is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis where she lived for two decades after growing up in Honolulu. She is still kama’aina.

Jennifer’s art education began at St. Louis Community College after a career in politics and finance and continues through classes and workshops at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Arrowmont, Haystack, Penland, and Lillstreet, studying directly with various quilt, craft, and fiber artists, including the quilters of Gee’s Bend.

Jennifer is applying to the MA in Textile History/Quilt Studies program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, home of the International Quilt Museum. She hopes to focus on how contemporary quilters learn and adapt quilting methods and patterns without lineal instruction.