Tennessee Jane Watson
journalist / artist / educator / endurance junkie
My practice transcends disciplines and is linked by a collaborative and community-based approach. I’ve produced nationally distributed radio features and audio documentaries, as well as award-winning video documentaries, oral history projects and public sound installations.
As a media arts educator, both with youth and adults, I’ve built community partnerships, developed curriculums, and taught--in English and Spanish. My focus is on facilitating learning and sharing skills.
Whether I’m producing a series of public dialogues or doing outreach for a public health program I’m guided by what I love the most; the creation of space—in person and through media—where a diversity of people connect, ideas are exchanged and solutions are imagined.
I was awarded the 2015 Howard G. Buffett Fund For Women Journalists from the International Women's Media Foundation for Silent Evidence, a multi-part radio documentary about the politics of prosecuting child sexual abuse that I'm co-producing with The Heart.
I freelance for America Abroad Media and Latino USA.
I co-produce Wage/Working, a public sound installation about wage inequity.
I was a media fellow for The Guantanamo Public Memory Project and produced several of their multimedia oral histories.
I am a member of the The Meerkat Media Collective.
I produce video and film. See my work on Vimeo.
I collaborate on media production with The Pauli Murray Project.
I got my MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College.
I am on the documentary advisory board for Student Action with Farmworkers.
Farmworkers Feed Us All, a documentary project about the labor and health of migrant and seasonal farmworkers in Maine I co-produced with photographer Earl Dotter.
Portrait of Silvia Elena, a woodblock print/paper-cut-out/audio installation I worked on with the New York artist SWOON about the femicides in Juarez, Mexico. The piece was a part of an exhibit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and then re-installed as a solo piece at Honey Space in New York. Watch a short slideshow about the installation.
The Nuevo South Project, an audio documentary about Latino immigrant to a small North Carolina town co-produced with John Biewen from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke.
The Profound Language of Mothers and Daughters is an interview with linguist and author Deborah Tannen for Ms. Magazine.
One of my first attempts at documentary work was The Untold Story, a web-based project examining institutional change at my alma mater Colby College.
My practice transcends disciplines and is linked by a collaborative and community-based approach. I’ve produced nationally distributed radio features and audio documentaries, as well as award-winning video documentaries, oral history projects and public sound installations.
As a media arts educator, both with youth and adults, I’ve built community partnerships, developed curriculums, and taught--in English and Spanish. My focus is on facilitating learning and sharing skills.
Whether I’m producing a series of public dialogues or doing outreach for a public health program I’m guided by what I love the most; the creation of space—in person and through media—where a diversity of people connect, ideas are exchanged and solutions are imagined.
I was awarded the 2015 Howard G. Buffett Fund For Women Journalists from the International Women's Media Foundation for Silent Evidence, a multi-part radio documentary about the politics of prosecuting child sexual abuse that I'm co-producing with The Heart.
I freelance for America Abroad Media and Latino USA.
I co-produce Wage/Working, a public sound installation about wage inequity.
I was a media fellow for The Guantanamo Public Memory Project and produced several of their multimedia oral histories.
I am a member of the The Meerkat Media Collective.
I produce video and film. See my work on Vimeo.
I collaborate on media production with The Pauli Murray Project.
I got my MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College.
I am on the documentary advisory board for Student Action with Farmworkers.
Farmworkers Feed Us All, a documentary project about the labor and health of migrant and seasonal farmworkers in Maine I co-produced with photographer Earl Dotter.
Portrait of Silvia Elena, a woodblock print/paper-cut-out/audio installation I worked on with the New York artist SWOON about the femicides in Juarez, Mexico. The piece was a part of an exhibit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and then re-installed as a solo piece at Honey Space in New York. Watch a short slideshow about the installation.
The Nuevo South Project, an audio documentary about Latino immigrant to a small North Carolina town co-produced with John Biewen from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke.
The Profound Language of Mothers and Daughters is an interview with linguist and author Deborah Tannen for Ms. Magazine.
One of my first attempts at documentary work was The Untold Story, a web-based project examining institutional change at my alma mater Colby College.