JANE
SKAFTE
Jane Skafte A native of Chicago, Skafte earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in Fibers and MA in Textile Design from Syracuse University. Her “first career” as a textile designer led her to Lenox China in New Jersey and creating floral designs for tableware. She later produced museum reproductions for the Smithsonian, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and, product designs based on archeological finds at Monticello. For over 15 years, she taught 2-D design, painting and drawing at schools and universities including James Madison University and Piedmont Virginia and Blue Ridge Community Colleges. Skafte and her artist husband, Peter Allen, moved to Virginia in 2001.
(Street Light, 2019)