Category: experience
be there and do the things
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Chi Modu: Tupac Uncategorized (Pori Museum, Finland)
Mission: Jan responded to a call to collaborate with legendary Source Magazine Photographer Chi Modu on the Tupac Project.
Solution: Jan used Aaron B Jackson’s “Dear John Letter to Hip Hop”, designed on a photograph of the late Tupac Shakur for what was initially an online exhibition. After a surge in popularity on social media, their piece was selected by Chi to be exhibited in his solo show, called “Uncategorized”, at the Pori Museum in Finland from June 13 – Sept 14, 2014. Jan updated the piece for larger resolution print and photos below show the results in the show.
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United Divas (non-profit)
Mission: As a strategy to encourage more women to explore multiple creative disciplines, Jan co-founded the 501(c)3 non-profit United Divas, with a mission to empower women to be artistic leaders, innovators and role models.
Solution: Her organization brought creative professionals together as a community supporting the arts, with workshops and exhibitions that encouraged other women to pursue their creative goals.
Examples of workshops Jan planned and developed:
Grants Workshop
Copyright Basics Workshop
Web Tools and Marketing Strategies WorkshopThe non-profit operated for a decade, from 2001 – 2011. Their major achievements include giving away 3 arts scholarships to low-income college freshman, spotlighting over 44 women artists as “diva of the month”, hosting multi-media events in Los Angeles, New York City, Miami Beach & Jersey City as well as producing a special edition literary arts magazine called Shouted Whisper.
Below are examples of her branding, experience and marketing design for United Divas.
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LITM.tv
In October of 2010, Jan Tompkins and Jelynne Jardiniano launched the first video art space in Jersey City, at a restaurant-bar-art-gallery called LITM, which stands for love is the message. Jan designed a 3-screen HD video array, which provides a place for films, videos and animation to be exhibited in downtown Jersey City, NJ. Treating it like a closed-circuit television channel, they decided to plan the first two months of programming by inviting both local and national artists to present their work. She also programmed and edited two 1-hour shows that ran short-format video and animation from both local and national artists and filmmakers. To bring it all together in a clean and sophisticated way, Jan created video packaging and branding for both monthly shows.
Each show ran for 1-month during business hours and was paid for by local businesses that purchased ad-space in between programming. LITM continues to screen a variety of media and host film festivals and other special screening events.
