Jan Fordyce has shown her work throughout the west in galleries as well as both private and corporate commissions including the American Craft Museum and most recently at the Prince Street Gallery in New York City. After studying at California College of the Arts she graduated from the University of California at Davis and then went on to receive an M. F. A. She has been teaching for many years the past 6 years at Arapahoe Community College in the Painting and Drawing Department as an Adjunct Professor and rigorously pursuing her painting.