Jeannine Marchand is a Puerto Rican studio artist based in Spruce Pine, NC. She received her BA from St. Joseph's University and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She was a resident artist at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO and a Core Fellow at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. In 2009 she received a Cultural Envoy Grant from the U.S. Department of State to teach, lecture, and jury the National Ceramics and Sculpture Biennial in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Her work has been exhibited nationwide and can be found in public and private art collections internationally, including the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, Keramiekcentrum Tiendschuur Tegelen, The Netherlands, Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA, the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art, MI, and the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC.

Photo by Nico Marchand Wheeler