A long-time resident of Maine, Jude Valentine completed her BFA at the Maine College of Art and received an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has received numerous awards for her work including a Jerome Foundation Fellowship, grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York Council on the Arts, and from the Cornell University Council of Creative Arts. In addition to her studio practice, she is currently a member of the interdisciplinary fine arts faculty at the University of Maine in Machias. In 2013, she was awarded three, month-long visiting artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, The Stephen Pace House in Stonington, Maine, and as visiting printmaker at St. Michael's Printshop in St. John's, Newfoundland. In 2015, she was a resident fellow at the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation in Maine.