Jan Kather teaches photography and video art at Elmira College, Elmira, NY. She is the recipient of several artist grants, including the Billboards ~ Just Down the Road project of the Arts of the Southern Finger Lakes (2002), the NYSCA Decentralization Artists Crossroads Program Grant used to create an artists’ book, Honoring Your Love, Honoring Your Grief, in collaboration with writer Chris Lloyd (2004), and most recently the NYSCA Decentralization Artists Crossroads Program Grant to produce a community art installation titled Aleatoric Video (2007). She is an active member of the experimental artist space, Rural Research Laboratories (Elmira), and the artist cooperative State of the Art Gallery (Ithaca).