Jill Scipione was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, on Lake Erie. She received early art training at the Butler Institute of American Art when her family moved to the Youngstown area, and majored in painting at Carnegie-Mellon University. She lived in Boston, the New York City area, and Pittsburgh before returning to Ohio in the early 1990s. She started working on the Psalms and Prophets series there in a studio-shed with funds awarded through a Pollock-Krasner grant. Her work has been seen in galleries, museums, and art-spaces in New York City, New Jersey, Boston, Santa Fe, and throughout Pennsylvania...