Exhibits

jai has had six one-woman exhibitions of her poemART/room-poems at:
•	Trinity Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 2010.
•	Undercroft Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 2002.
•	Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, KY, 1999.
•	Wellesley College, MA, 1998.
•	Netherbow Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1979.
•	Underneath the Arches, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1978.
jai also participated in the Woman Art group exhibition at the Undercroft Galley, Pittsburgh 2002, and in a group show at the Turmoil Room, Pittsburgh 1992.            jai has also led social-work client families and inner-city youth in creating room-poems, and has led an international group of 11 women in creating a Peace Room-Poem in downtown Pittsburgh. This included a number of site-specific works by jai. (See Peace Talk.)

Publications and Performances
jai's sound poetry is incantatory and sometimes multilingual. A number of her poems offer readers word choices. She has created music and movements for some of her poems. Green Lady House, a chapbook of her early poems, was published in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work has also been published in Poetic Sculpture/Sculptural Poems, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Membrane Envelope.
           jai has performed her poetry at Shakespeare and Company in Paris, the Edinburgh and St. Andrews Festivals in Scotland, and at Pittsburgh's Carson Street Gallery, City Books, and Phipps Conservatory. Her performances include music and movements that she has created for some of her poems. She has also created, directed, and performed in readers' theatre presentations of her own work and that of other writers.

Teaching and Leading Groups

jai has taught poemART to:
•	Gifted middle school students through Carnegie Mellon University's C-Mites program.
•	Middle school students at Allegheny Traditional Academy and Concord Elementary in Pittsburgh, and Roosevelt Middle School in San Francisco.
•	Middle school students at Assumption School in Pittsburgh. This was a nine-day poemARTist residency in which jai taught students to create poemART on paper canvases, on computers, and on the walls of rooms (a room-poem). She also introduced Assumption 3th, 4th, and 5th graders to poemART and taught an evening class in poemART for parents and other adults.
•	High-school students at the Ellis School in Pittsburgh and in the Exploration Summer Program at Wellesley College.
•	Children and youth (ages 8-18) in Edinburgh, Scotland schools.
•	K-12 teachers in Pittsburgh schools (through the Western Pennsylvania Writers Project).
jai has also led numerous groups in creating room-poems:
•	Social-work client families (under the auspices of the Social Work Department in Dunfermline, Scotland).
•	Mentally and physically disabled adults (through Shining Reflections, a consumer-run organization for the mentally and physically disabled in East Liverpool, Ohio).
•	Inner-city youth (ages 8-16, in Bloomfield-Garfield).

The Poem-of-the-Month Club™, where poetry and art are 1
In November 1998, jai founded The Poem-of-the-Month Club™, where poetry and art are 1. Each month, subscribers to the Club receive an original poemART by jai.

Education
jai, a native of Pittsburgh, PA, received her B.A., Cum Laude, from Duquesne University with a double major in English Honors and Philosophy. She has done graduate work at the University of Rochester (psychology and business) and the University of Pittsburgh (marketing).
           As an artist, jai is self-taught: "One day about 20 years ago when I was living in Edinburgh, Scotland, I had the impulse to draw the letters of the words of one of my poems. The letters became abstract. I added other abstract elements, creating a series of drawings/paintings out of the words. My first poemART was a series of 36 such drawings. My second was 20, and they let me create a site-specific exhibit around these drawings--my first room-poem. Now my room-poems are totally site-specific."

Writing
jai has been a professional writer for 20 years. Her credits include an educational tv series, creative arts programs for television, feature articles, ads, a national marketing column on the World Wide Web, and publications. She has her own firm: Vision and Values, and she is writing a book on Voting in the U.S. today.