Montana-based Jane Waggoner Deschner has been an exhibiting artist for over forty years; for more than twenty her medium has been vernacular photographs. She has exhibited in numerous venues including Robert Mann Gallery, NYC; Buffalo Bill Center of the West, WY; Missoula Art Museum, MT; Intersect Arts, St. Louis, MO; Churchill Arts, Fallon, NV. Her immersive installation, “Remember me. a collective narrative in found words and photographs,” premiered at the Yellowstone Art Museum in 2022. Her work was the only photographer juried into all three Kris Graves Projects’ photobooks. Online photography exhibits include the Griffin Museum of Photography, MA; Blue Sky Gallery, OR; Colorado Photographic Arts Center; The Curated Fridge. She is working with Fall Line Press on a photobook of her “memoji mori: reminders of mortality” project, due March 2027. Spring 2027, she is collaborating with the Griffin Museum of Photography’s Crista Dix in their “Illuminating the Archive” series.
Montana Arts Council chose her for an Artist Innovation Award (2019–20), ARPA grant (2022), Strategic Investment Grant (2025). Montana State University-Billings selected her for a 2026 Outstanding Alumni Award. She is a PhotoLucida “Critical Mass 2026 Top 200 Finalist.”
Her work has been supported by numerous residencies across the US and in Canada and Mexico, including Anderson Ranch Arts Center, CO; Ucross Foundation, WY; The Banff Centre, CA; Atlantic Center for the Arts, FL; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, VA; and Santa Fe Art Institute, AZ. Time spent working in these unique places forms an important part of her practice.
She earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2002. After growing up in Kansas, she moved to Montana in 1977. In addition to being a mixed media artist, she works as an exhibition installer, graphic designer, photographer, curator, instructor, picture framer and election judge.
Montana Arts Council chose her for an Artist Innovation Award (2019–20), ARPA grant (2022), Strategic Investment Grant (2025). Montana State University-Billings selected her for a 2026 Outstanding Alumni Award. She is a PhotoLucida “Critical Mass 2026 Top 200 Finalist.”
Her work has been supported by numerous residencies across the US and in Canada and Mexico, including Anderson Ranch Arts Center, CO; Ucross Foundation, WY; The Banff Centre, CA; Atlantic Center for the Arts, FL; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, VA; and Santa Fe Art Institute, AZ. Time spent working in these unique places forms an important part of her practice.
She earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2002. After growing up in Kansas, she moved to Montana in 1977. In addition to being a mixed media artist, she works as an exhibition installer, graphic designer, photographer, curator, instructor, picture framer and election judge.