Jan Yager MFA ‘81 JM is one of several artists featured in the Peabody Award winning Craft in America episode titled Landscape. The segment considers the physical landscape, as well as the political and social influences on artists, and how they translate into the objects they make.  Jan talks about her  City Flora/City Flotsam series, inspired by urban flora growing in vacant lots near her Philadelphia studio. Click here to hear Jan talkabout her work.

Jan’s work has been recognized with numerous awards including a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and a solo show at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It is in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others.