She has received numerous awards throughout the Mid-Atlantic region:

• Allied Artists Juried National Exhibition, Gold Medal of Honor, NYC, 1984
• Helen Foster Barnett Youth Award, Best in Show, National Academy of Design, NYC, 1986
• Women Artists of Atlantic County, First Prize Sculpture, Atlantic Community College, 1993
• Great Norristown Arts League, Juried Sculpture Show, Best in Show, Norristown PA, 2006
• 41^st Annual Bucks County Sculpture Show. 1^st Place; Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce, 2018
• 95th Annual Philips’ Mill Juried Art Show, New Hope, PA. 

African American Art Award for work that Depicts African American Life, History, and/or 

Culture given by Mary and Herbert Flamer to the “Kickboxer”, September 20, 2024.

In 2018 she completed the 7-foot-tall bronze monument of Radnor’s own Emlen Tunnell for the Radnor Pa. Township Building, Emlen Tunnell was the first African American to be inducted into the NFL football Hall of Fame and a WW2 hero, saving two lives in combat. Her other noted personal works include a life size bas-relief of Anthony Bourdain for the Culinary Institute of American in Hyde Park N.Y class of ‘78. The bronze relief was unveiled at the CIA in October 2019 and a 6 foot by 8-foot bas-relief of the History of Negro League Baseball at the entrance of the athletic department at the Richard Stockton College, Pomona, NJ; 2014. She competed and won a state-wide competition for the commission of a life size bronze bust of NJ state commissioner the honorable Horace J. Bryant for the Carnegie Library in Atlantic City, NJ. 2005. In 2010 she was asked to sculpt a life size bronze portrait bust of
Reverend Sean M. Sullivan, founder of Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Permanent Collection.

Jennifer was commissioned by the Philadelphia Flyers pro-hockey team to sculpt nine Hall of Fame inductees for the Wells Fargo Centers Hall of Fame from 2004-2024.

She sculpted half life-size portraits and 8-inch uniformed figures in bronze of:  Dave Poulin, Ron Hextal, Dave Schultz, Eric Lindros, Eric DesJardin,  John LeClaire, Rick Tocchet, Paul Holmgren and Mark Recchi for the Wells Fargo Center Hall of Fame and each Flyer honored got their own personal copy.

Jennifer recently completed in September 2022 the first named female athlete statue in Pennsylvania,

6-foot bronze monument of the World Champion Woman Kickboxer from Chester PA .Just awarded “Best in Philly” 2023 Philadelphia Magaizine, Fredia ”The Cheetah” Gibbs for Cabrini University. In October 2022  Billy “White Shoes” Johnson 7-foot monument of the NFL wide receiver who played for the Houston Oilers and the Atlanta Falcons was unveiled in Marcus Hook Pa.  

The Guardians of the Cemetery commissioned Jennifer to create a 10-foot monument of George Washington kneeling in prayer. It is permanently installed at the Washington Crossing National Cemetery, in Newtown, Pa. Currently Jennifer is working on a 21” x 30” bronze Bas-Relief of retired General Director David Gockley, of the San Francisco Opera Company, to be installed March 2024. Gertie Dunn, woman baseball player and inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame, 22” bronze sculpture, 2024 and a Bronze 11’ x 15’ Bronze Bas-Relief in memory of Philip W. Damiani for the private collection of Sports Legends of Delaware County Museum, Radnor, PA 2024.

Jennifer resides in Doylestown PA. with her husband Paul Petry. She has taught adult sculpture classes at the Wayne Art Center for the past 19 years. Born in Atlantic City N.J. in 1961

~Jenfrudakis.com