Jeffers is best known for her powwow photographs closely investigating the heterogeneity of Southeastern Native American historical racial mixing. Jeffers photographs were exhibited at the Hamilton Hill Arts Center in Schenectady, New York, the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh, North Carolina in collaboration with Joe Liles, The Arts Center in Carrboro, North Carolina, The Arts Incubator in Siler City, North Carolina. Awards include, a collection of honors and scholarships including The Second Chance Scholarship 2000, Initiatives for Women’s Bernice Mosbey Peenbles Scholarship Award in 2003, a 2010 fellowship to Penland School of Crafts for Daguerreotype under Jerry Spagnoli. After having grown up in rural Mohawk Valley in Upstate New York, Jennifer Jeffers earned an Associate in Arts degree in Humanities and Social Sciences at Schenectady County Community College. She went on to the State University of New York to study History and Art which lead her to North Carolina as an Independent Student, where she relocated her family and immersed herself in Southeastern Native American Culture living in a rural Native town. Jeffers currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina where she continues her studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She volunteered in the Chapel Hill Carrboro City School District, teaching first graders to read through art-based instruction. Jeffers is currently doing work that includes traditional photography, and a combination of contemporary approaches to artistic expression using digital transfer and painting.
