Adrienne Beth Jenkins

Adrienne is a visual artist and arts-based researcher who writes and lectures on the the creative process from a depth psychology perspective. She has completed coursework in Jungian studies, dreamwork and archetypal pattern analysis that has included the study of ancient mythologies, symbols  and sacred ritual practices. She leads seminars on approaching the creative process as a path of individuation - personal growth and transformation - where the symbols in dreams and the images we create express archetypal energies wanting to be seen, related to and lived through personal experiences that are also collectively human. 

Professional Background

For two decades Adrienne worked as a nonprofit arts administrator, and also as a consultant and university lecturer and researcher. She is experienced in organizational development, strategic planning, marketing, development and financial management, working with non-profit arts and cultural organizations and individual artists to achieve their creative goals. 

As an arts administrator, Adrienne participated on leadership teams working to achieve significant organizational growth and transformation, spearheading innovative programs and expanding the organizational capacity to sustain them. Senior leadership positions include Managing Director of Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious, Philadelphia’s first international, region-wide collaborative arts festival celebrating printmaking, Executive Director of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, and Director of Development and External Affairs at Abington Art Center.These organizations experienced considerable growth in programming, staffing and operating budgets during her tenure.

From 2001-2006 Adrienne served as adjunct faculty and senior lecturer/research director for cultural policy in the graduate program for arts administration at Drexel University. She has worked at private and university-based consulting and training organizations and as an independent consultant. 

Prior to her career in arts administration, Adrienne was a marketing research analyst conducting qualitative and quantitative research studies for pharmaceutical and technology companies. She is an experienced focus group moderator and individual in-depth interviewer..

Adrienne earned an Executive MBA from Drexel University (2003) and a BS in Marketing from Penn State University (1985). In 2021 she completed five years of study and training in Jungian depth psychology, the archetypal feminine, and earned certifications in dream patterning and archetypal pattern analysis, culminating in her thesis Painting a Fuller Picture: Archetypal Patterns of Creative Transformation in Ovid’s Echo and Narcissus presented at the 2021 Assisi Institute international conference.  She became a certified Dream Circle Facilitator in 2025 through The Jung Center in Houston.

Adrienne maintains a studio at Norristown Arts Building in suburban Philadelphia. She has exhibited her work regionally and beyond, and writes and lectures on the archetypal patterns revealing themselves through dreams, ancient mythologies and her own creative practice.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017  Guardians of the Meadow: Honoring Earth and All Her Relations at Pendle Hill Quaker Retreat Center, Media, PA.

2017  Made of This Earth, Speer Gallery, The Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, PA.

2015  Web of Life, Pebble Hill Church Gallery, Doylestown, PA

2013  Fur, Feathers & Flesh, Pagus Gallery, Norristown, PA

FEATURED ARTIST EXHIBITIONS

2016  They Walk Among Us: Painted Beasts and Other Curious Creatures, GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Reading, PA.

2015   Adrienne Beth Jenkins and Barbara Straussberg Paintings, Thos. Moser Furniture, Wayne, PA

2010    Light and Despair: Adrienne Jenkins and Valerie Carroll,                         Twenty-Two Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

GROUP AND JURIED SHOWS

2019   CURRENTS, curated by Barbara Zucker, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2018    Professional Artist Members Exhibit, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

2017    Annual Group Exhibition, Pagus Gallery, Norristown, PA

2015    The 5B's: Birds, Bees, Butterflies, Bats and Bugs, International Juried Exhibition at Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA

2015    72nd Annual Juried Painting Show, Cheltenham Center for the Arts; juried by Sharon Ewing, Director Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia.

2013-15    Group Exhibition and Open Studio, Norristown Arts Building

2012         Annual Group Exhibition, Pagus Gallery, Norristown, PA

2009/11    Annual Juried Show, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA