Jan McLaughlin

Emmy-winning production sound mixer Jan McLaughlin's work blends and blurs every imaginable form of communication, and hits the ground dancing whether swinging on the written word or capturing actors' performances for film and television. Originally from Pennsylvania, she studied philosophy, dance, and comparative literature at Pitt, and film at NYU's School of Continuing Education. A stint as Assistant to the Curator of the Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry continues to inform McLaughlin's artistic works, which have been shown at the New York Historical Society, Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, The Norton Gallery Museum, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, The Knitting Factory and Boston's Center for the Arts. Jan's award-winning film works include more than 70 productions. Once a contributing writer for 11211 Magazine, McLaughlin's words have been written about and published in USA Today and the New York Times, The Independent, and the infamous "New Yorker of literary smut," Nerve Magazine. In 1992 Palmetto Press released "These Poems Are Not Pretty," a collection of poetry co-authored with the art historian / poet Bruce Weber. Jackie on His Head: Nine Photo Poems (privately published), was written in collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Bill Foley. She has performed and read at many poetry outposts in the U.S., including New York, Boston and Miami. McLaughlin's most recent project--in collaboration with the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue--is continuing work on "The World's Longest Open Love Letter" the next page of which is a documentary film.