JENNIFER SALZMAN has been a professional artist for the past thirty years working in traditional film photography. Originally from Wisconsin, she has lived in Oregon for the past twenty years. As an active artist, Jennifer has a successful career exhibiting regionally, nationally, and internationally, with exhibitions recently in England and France. Her newest body of work involves combining photography and textiles. She creates imagery using 35mm photographic film printed onto alternative textile surfaces, most currently silks and organza. She then uses silk thread embroidery to stitch and enhance certain parts of the imagery over the top of the photograph. The stitching that she employs is created to relate to the ‘red thread of fate’. Though this folklore is one of marriage and destined loves, her work uses it to expand on the destiny of life and the roles of strength, control, understanding and love that compel a person to move forward. Along with being successful as a mixed media photographer, she works as the Director of the Craft Center at the University of Oregon. Jennifer is married to Andreas Salzman, who is also an artist working in ceramics and sculpture.