My name is Jaedin Guldenstern, and I am a painter, a farmer, and a bumble-r. I love to throw random ingredients into a colorful pot and make soup with toasted garlicky bread. At a party, I lay on the floor with the dogs.

I grew up on Ckuwaponahkiyik (Wabanaki) land throughout the Merrimack River Watershed from the woods and mountains of New Hampshire to the brackish rivers and salt marshes of Massachusetts. I graduated from Boston University with a degree in Sociology and a degree in Art. I studied human rights and social movements in Argentina doing research about the experience of menstruation in rural communities.

I love to paint. I love to make. My art practice has roots in fairy house making, gift-giving, pressing leaves in recipe books, and skipping recess to finish a painting. I am a figure-outer as I go. Color, shadow, texture, and light are dear friends along for the ride. Memory is a key part of my storytelling. How do we want to remember? Those beautiful breakfast crumbs? Our childhood? The great grandmother I never met? How do we re-member?

Environmental work is integral to my life. Working with the Gulf of Maine Institute (GOMI), the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, and local farms led to hosting public environmental conversations with Climate Café for nearly a decade. I continue to work with Climate Café in the Great Marsh area fostering place-based experiences with local high school students, municipal governments, and environmental non-profits. I seasonally live and work on the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine doing commercial composting, wastewater treatment, freshwater reverse-osmosis work, and children's programming.

I consider myself a mermaid.​​​​​​​​