Jennifer Seibert is a painter and professor living in Allen, Texas, where she runs the same routes most mornings: past Bethany Lakes, through Oak Point and Spirit Park, along the creek corridors and suburban margins that almost no one stops to look at. She stops to look at them, and those pauses become her paintings.

Passing the same places again and again, she notices how the light, the sky, and her memories change what she sees. She paints alla prima, working wet into wet, a direct way of painting that depends on sustained attention. That attention has become the focus of her research in neuroaesthetics, supported by a funded Study Grant awarded in 2024, which explores how slow looking and making can restore focus amid constant distraction. She holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Wichita State University.

In 2026 she presented two solo exhibitions of this work: Mediated Landscapes: Paintings of Slowness and Resistance in Everyday Spaces at The Art Gallery at Collin College, and What I Paused For, What We Almost Missed at ArtCentre of Plano. Her national and international exhibitions include work at Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris, ARTSpace: CAA in New York, MAD Centre Gallery in Albania, and ICARTS Italia in Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy. She has participated in residencies at the CAC Woodside Residency in New York, the Cité Internationale Universitaire Artist Residency in France, and the International School of Art in Umbria, Italy. Her work has been presented by curators from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Heritage Auctions, and recognized by nationally juried panels including PBS.

She is Professor of Art at Collin College in Plano, Texas, where she teaches Painting, 2D Design, and Art Appreciation, and she lectures regularly on attention, slow looking, and contemporary painting. She previously held a tenured appointment at Eastern Michigan University, teaching Drawing, Installation, and Time-Based Media at the graduate level, before returning to North Texas to be near family and near the trails that have become the subject of this work.

She is co-founder of Chloe Mae Studios in Downtown Allen and serves on the boards of the Allen Arts Alliance and the Plano Art Association. In 2026 she was named Artist Educator of the Year by ArtCentre of Plano, chosen as the commissioned artist for the City of Allen's 150th Anniversary Public Art Project, and selected as a Faculty Fellow for The Great Questions Foundation's Faculty Fellowship, funded by the Mellon Foundation.