Jaclyn Janis, a nurse, public health researcher, and emerging Portland Art Gallery artist, joins Radio Maine to share how science, illness, and landscape converge in her printmaking practice.

With a background spanning nursing, ICU care, and health outcomes research, Janis brings a deeply analytical lens to her creative work—one shaped by her own experience living with a rare lung disease. After years away from art, she returned to it during a challenging period away from Maine, finding both solace and structure in the layered process of reduction printmaking.

Inspired by Maine’s marshes, birdlife, and quiet moments of observation, her work reflects a balance between precision and uncertainty—mirroring the experience of navigating health, research, and life itself.