Jennifer  Renee Caden Merdjan is a working artist and designer. She also brings great enthusiasm as an educator in these disciplines. Her artwork incorporates an assortment of mediums. Presently her focus is creating artistic shoe sculptures. In these works, ordinary shoes and odd objects are recycled and transformed into faces, animals, and sculptures. The worn-out shoes she uses as the basis for her artistic sculptures symbolize a past. By recycling them into art, she stresses an attitude hope, and the present which continuously changes. The final result, her beautiful shoe sculptures, suggest the renewal of the future and remind the reader that life is too short to focus on the old, worn tears and holes marked on your sole.

Jennifer and her artistic shoe sculptures were featured on Univision's Control TV show. Ms. Merdjan has also created a line of hand-painted silk scarves, which sold in boutiques throughout New York City and at the gift shop of the American Craft Museum (now the Museum of Art and Design), Henri Bendel, and at a benefit auction at the Argentine consulate. Select works in other mediums have also been on exhibit at Barnes and Noble, The Urban Center, Lever House, and the Joyce Robins Gallery. Her graphics have been published in the magazine Bridal Guide and the Wall Street Transcript, and she has done design work for Simon and Schuster. She has been awarded academic grants for study at Harvard, Stanford, New York University, Accademia di Firenze in Italy, and summer-study tours in China and Germany.

She has written and designed the book If Shoes Could Talk based on these shoe sculptures. Like much of her artwork and teachings, this book attempts to help others; not only through it's message, but by joining forces with non-profit agencies for fundraising and interactive exhibits.