Jayne Guertin is a writer, editor, content creator and visual artist. She writes nonfiction, essays, poetry, and creative literature. She also provides clients with original digital and print content, collateral marketing, advertising copy, long- and short-form articles, features, SEO driven blogs, blurbs, headlines, tag lines and public relations and communications services. She is currently accepting freelance work. Contact her here. She has written about art, business, education, preservation, lifestyle, fashion, medicine, nature, politics, and other concerns; and, she occasionally blogs at Banks of Noon about all the little things that haunt her.

Jayne’s writings can be found in various local, regional and national publications and literary journals, such as Entropy Magazine, Literary Mama, the Los Angeles Review of Books,  PANK Magazine, Star 82 Review, The Tishman Review  Yankee Magazine, Rhode Island Monthly, Providence Monthly, East Side Monthly, and elsewhere.

Among other publications, she has created photographs for SmokeLong Quarterly,  The Tishman Review, Yankee Magazine,  and the front and back book covers of Seeking Its Own Level, an anthology of writings about water—including writings by Margaret Atwood, Roxane Gay, Bret Anthony Johnston, Jamie Quatro, and others. Her photographs also appear across print and digital media outlets.

In June 2018, Jayne was named one of the “rising stars of our local art community” by Boston Voyager magazine, in its Boston Arts and Culture Weekly Review. See her interview with Boston Voyager. Her visual work can be found at Jayne Guertin | Photographic Arts.

Jayne’s nonfiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and for a Sundress Publication’s Best of the Net Anthology. She holds an MFA in creative writing and literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars, Bennington College.

Find her CV here.

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Photography/Exhibitions/Honors

January 1 – February 11, 2021. Members Exhibition. Providence Art Club, Providence, RI.

November 8 – December 23. 116th Annual Little Pictures show. Small paintings. 8 pieces sold. Providence Art Club, Providence, RI.

November 13 – January 10, 2021. Members Small Works. After Monet. Encaustic and Mixed Media.  Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA. Sold.

September 20 – October 9, 2020. Transparent Passages, a three-week exhibition at the Providence Art Club. Three artists and their works. Included in my works are encaustic and mixed media on cradle board. Two pieces sold.

August 3 – August 27, 2020. Isolation Creations, a Members Exhibition. Outermost Dream (encaustic and mixed media). Providence Art Club, Providence, RI. Sold.

July 10 – August 23,  2020. Provincetown Art Association and Museum The Members 12×12 Exhibition and Silent Auction. The Lost Dress (encaustic and mixed media). Sold.

November 11 – December 23, 2019. The Providence Art Club‘s Little Picture show.  Six collages on wood panels. Providence Art Club, Providence RI.

November 2 – November 26, 2019.  Solo Exhibition: Haunted by Waters. Opening reception: Nov. 7, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Howard Silverman Gallery, East Greenwich Free Library, 82 Peirce Street., East Greenwich, RI.  Jayne is the 2018 East Greenwich Library Winter’s Eve Jurors’ Award Winner. https://www.instagram.com/jaynecguertin/

July 19 – Aug 25, 2019. Provincetown Art Association and Museum The Members’ 12×12 Exhibition and Silent Auction. One digital photograph: West End Lighthouse. Provincetown, MA. Sold.

May 4 -June 15, 2019. Plymouth Center for the Arts Ninth Annual Exhibition: The Fine Art of Photography, an international juried exhibition. Jurors: David DeMelim, Karin Rosenthal, and Paula Tognarelli. One photograph: Ghosts in the Waters. Honorable Mention. Plymouth, MA.

March 18 – May 24, 2019. Spring Members Exhibition. One photograph: Flow. Art League Rhode Island, Providence, RI.

January 26 – February 15, 2019. Winter Members Exhibition 2019. One Photograph: Exposed. Providence Art Club, Providence, RI.

January 5 – January 25, 2019. New Year, New Members Exhibition. Three Photographs from the “I Am Haunted By Waters“ series. Providence Art Club, Providence, RI.

December 1 – December 28, 2018. East Greenwich Free Library‘s 8th Annual Juried Art Exhibit.  Jurors Marjorie Hellman and Marsha Katzman. Two photographs: Songs of Love and Desperation, and Race Point Remembered. Jurors’ Award for Songs of Love and Desperation. East Greenwich Free Library, RI.

November 11 – December 23, 2018. The Providence Art Club‘s Little Picture show.  Six photographs on wood panels. Providence Art Club, Providence RI.

September 14 — December 1, 2018. Art League Rhode Island’s juried exhibition, Parsing Sign and Images, at The VETS Gallery.  Juror: Kaveh Mojtabai, Publisher, Artscope Magazine. One collage on canvas: Night. Providence, RI. S0ld.

August 13 — December 12. Women and Infants Hospital.  Four-month solo exhibition: The Sunflowers. Malcolm and Elizabeth Chace Education Center, South Pavilion Gallery, Women & Infants Hospital. Providence, RI.

August 12 — August 31, 2018. Providence Art Club’s The Summer Members’ Exhibition. Juror: Willa Van Nostrand. One photograph: Hannah’s Girl. Providence, RI.

June 14 – July 13, 2018. Attleboro Arts Museum national juried exhibition, THREE. Juror: Alexander Castro,  a writer, journalist, and art critic, who regularly contributes to Art New England, Big Red and Shiny, Mercury, and GLASS Quarterly. His work also appears or is forthcoming in Don’t Take Pictures and Lost Balloon. In 2018, Castro was a runner-up for the inaugural Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing. One Photograph: After Renoir: The Girls’ Manifest Charm. Attleboro, MA.

Permanent Collection

Women and Infants Hospital. Two Photographs: Let Me Through, and Giselle (from the sunflowers series).  Providence, RI.