Creating Chocolate Masterpieces By Jean L. Zaun

Jean received 3rd prize at the Lancaster Museums Open Art Awards for her chocolate purses in 2003. The award juror was J. Susan Isaacs, Ph.D., curator of the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts. She said of Jean's piece "(they) suggest a kind of Dada sensibility...the object is actually artfully constructed, not found. For those of us who are chocoholics, the medium is a higher art form than the found object, the actual subject of the sculpture. The pocketbooks and the chocolate operating in concert raise all kinds of wonderful associations: games of dress-up combined with big chunks of candy Ambrosia." Jean also received an "Award of Excellence" at the 2007 York Art Association Juried Show for my pair of chocolate boots. Zaun has also been included in invitational exhibits at the Demuth Foundation Museum and The Lancaster Museum of Art in Lancaster, PA.
Jean's chocolate paintings are currently in the collections of celebrities Sharon Osbourne, Al Roker, Marc Summers, Lt. Governor Catherine Baker-Knoll and Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell.