Jojin Van Winkle

  • Chair, Art Department; Director, Photography, Film, and New Media Program; Associate Professor of Art
    Office location:
    Johnson Arts Center 231
    Phone
    262-551-6441

    Jojin Van Winkle is a filmmaker, visual artist, writer, and assistant professor of art, teaching foundations, and new media. Her film/video and audio research centers around this practice of listening. This listening focuses on resilience, environmental stewardship, and human rights issues, including the often overlooked aspect of children’s/youth’s rights. She has participated in artist residencies internationally and nationally. She exhibited large-scale installation art across the United States before working in video and film. She has been active in higher education since the early 2000’s.

    Prof. Van Winkle was an associate producer for the documentary, “The Land Beneath Our Feet” (2016, 60 min.). She has additional camerawork in this film. The documentary screened in 2017 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, DOK.fest München (Germany), RAI Film Festival (Royal Anthropological Institute) (Bristol, UK), and over thirty international and national festivals, winning several awards.

    Prof. Van Winkle was the USA-based cinematographer for PBS/Independent Lens documentary, “In the Shadow of Ebola,” (2015, 27 min.). It played at the National Museum of Australia (Canberra, Australia) and at several medical-based events, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, GA) along with international and national film festivals.

    From 2006-2008 she directed the Education Department at the University of Virginia’s Fralin Museum of Art.

    Prof. Van Winkle has a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) and a Master of Arts (MA) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, both focused on film and video. Her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has a passion for running, swimming, and being outdoors.

    To learn more about Van Winkle’s work, visit her website at www.jojinprojects.com.