Jeanne Jaffe and Molly McGreevy met though their mutual love of storytelling and puppetry. They now share a studio at Collective 62 in Liberty City, Miami, and together they have formed Jaffe / Mcgreevy Projects, where they plan to conduct workshops on storytelling and shadow puppets. At their Art Salon talk, they'll explore storytelling as a road map to personal and cultural change, re-imagining two classic stories, and how new interpretations and narratives can create psychological paths for personal growth and social reconfiguration during times of crisis. These multifaceted retellings of well-known but fractured narratives can create new possibilities for expanded identity, personal and political action, and community.

Jaffe’s work features a stop motion animation film “Alice in Dystopia,” based on Lewis Carroll’s 1865 classic “Alice in Wonderland”. In this version, the Rabbit and Alice go down the wrong rabbit hole and end up in 2020, where they must grapple with our current environmental and societal crises. The film uses marionettes, live action, shadow puppetry, and archival footage, and she has created installations with large-scale sculptures, marionettes and photos of the characters from the film.

Molly McGreevy’s current work features mixed media drawings, marionettes, story boards and set elements from a future stop motion film based on the old German story of Faust, the man who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for material riches and metaphysical knowledge.

Their two person exhibition at IPC ART SPACE in Miami, “Tales of Transformation”, has just closed, and much of it will again be shown at the Coral Springs Museum of Art, in “Reawaken”, from Oct 25 - Dec. 4, with an opening reception on Nov 18. “Reawaken” will feature Jeanne Jaffe’s “Alice in Dystopia” and the sculptures, marionettes, and photographs related to it, along with work by Molly McGreevy, Marcela Marcuzzi, Marina Font, and Nina Surel of Miami-based Collective 62, who all seek to reawaken and recreate the conventional connotations of classic fairytales, rituals, and legends.



Jeanne Jaffe is a sculptor, video and installation artist who moved to Florida from Philadelphia, where she is Professor Emeritus in the Fine Arts Department at the University of the Arts. She is also a visiting artist/professor at Xian Academy of Fine Arts in China each fall, and is the coordinator of International Projects at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts.

Jaffe’s work is inspired by an interest in mythology, psychology, literature, and history. Her work "explores how identity is formed from early, pre-verbal, bodily experiences through the later influences of language and culture". It has been shown nationally and internationally and is in the collections of the museums, and universities. She is the recipient of many fellowship grants, and her work has been reviewed extensively, including in Art in America, The New York Times, and Sculpture.

Molly McGreevy’s artwork revolves around ideas relating to iconography, archetypes, mythology and similar systems of meaning. One recent series focuses on the symbolism found in medieval alchemical manuscripts. She explains that alchemy was inherently a spiritual practice, the stages of the chemical processes also metaphors for the stages of personal transformation. She uses pen nib and traditional inks, sometimes with gold or silver leaf embellishments to emphasize the chemical applications intrinsic to the art of alchemy. Other work has elements of collage.

McGreevy has taught English at Miami-Dade College as an adjunct professor and earned a MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction at FIU.