Jerri Allyn

Jerri Allyn is an activist artist, educator and scholar interested in civic engagement, exploring themes of social justice and empowerment. She/He often questions power structures, challenges gender norms, and addresses women’s labor, sexuality, queer rights, and resolving conflicts creatively.

Allyn’s interdisciplinary artworks are often in a storytelling form. S/heHe strives for aesthetic innovations, incorporating contemporary insights, historical facts, and satiric wit. Frequently collaborating, she/he utilizes site-oriented performance and installation art; sculptural tableaus; audio, video, billboards; artists books and graphic multiples—adapting each to suit theme and intention.

Allyn joins others in bringing a fresh lens to debates about sexual mores, dignifying the subjects through confident, elegant portraits. Allyn’s project Sex Celebrated: Expanding Erotic Power explores sex ed, body positivity, and sex workers’ rights. Allyn’s crafted photomontage banners uplift colleagues in pro-sexuality gigs. Vinyl prints advertise their events outside on lampposts, while fine-art prints hang from exhibit ceilings inside.