Jennifer Baker

A resident of Northern Liberties for more than 30 years, Jennifer will document the dramatic transformation of this 19th century working-class immigrant neighborhood to a 21st century neighborhood of hip young professionals in the Northern Liberties Project through paintings, monoprints, and written sketches. Her art work will examine the nature of a changing city, what that change actually looks like, and the impact that change has on people. She will show the work simultaneously in the spring of 2011 at Projects Gallery in Northern Liberties and at Art 101 in Brooklyn, New York, a neighborhood that has undergone similar upheavals. Jennifer hopes that her project will raise questions to the audience such as ‘where do people go when they are forced out of a neighborhood?’ and ‘what happens to a sense of community when individuals and demographics change?’ By presenting the work in the neighborhood as well as scheduling events such as readings and film screenings, she hope to bring in the audience that is most affected by the issue— her fellow residents.