Teresa Jaynes is an arts consultant specializing in new program design that is based in cross sector partnerships and community engagement. For twenty-eight years she has worked on numerous creative, collaborative initiatives in Philadelphia and the surrounding region. The projects have been as diverse as have been the people involved. The common thread has been an open-ended process that allows for ideas to evolve through meaningful exchange and participation.
Whether it is as an art consultant, artist or curator her goal is to foster long term engagement that diversifies stakeholders, increases creative opportunities and extends public conversations. The outcomes of these conversations including the vernacular expressions of social change movements; community driven public art programs about our unique relationship to the watershed; a feature length film about activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya; and, an online storytelling platform by and for persons in recovery from mental illness.