Hi, I’m Jess
I’m a lesbian visual artist + journaler creating, writing, and healing in the heartland.
I'm a nonbinary femme, introvert, midwestern witch, and tarot reader; a lover of winter, storytelling, the Great Lakes, and heathen Marian devotion.
My work is an outpouring of love for all who are femme, scarred, fat, queer, ill, mad, aging, wounded, abandoned, and healing. Grief work is at the heart of my artistic, spiritual, and healing practice. I believe grieving is sacred, creative alchemy.
I'm devoted to my own & others’ trauma healing through art, play, and imagination, centering femme visual mythologies of tenderness and communion. I practice presence in my body through art making and celebrate fat queer bodies joyously in my work.
I hope my art might offer comfort and company to those who are in need of it.
In love + creation,
Jess
she/her/they/them
Recent Exhibited & Published Work:
Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal: Trans/Feminisms –– April 2023
The Survivor Zine UK: Issue 2, Safety and Healing — May 2022
Swept Away Zine: Issue 2, Letting Go To Make Way for Emergence –– December 2021
Lesbians Are Miracles: Hot/Sex — July 2021
Contrarium Magazine Issue II: Rage/Serenity — June 2021
Perfumed Pages Magazine: Issue 1, Love — June 2021
Taking Space: WMN Zine Issue 03 — May 2021
Drifter Zine: The Fem Issue — May 2021
Giving Room Magazine, Issue 1 — May 2021
The Transitions Project Exhibition on Nonbinary Experience — April 2021
Lesbians Are Miracles: Daydreams and Fantasies — March 2021
The Fat Zine Vol. 2: Love — March 2021
Lesbians Are Miracles: The Miracle of Queer Resilience Inaugural Issue — January 2021
Creative Distancing, Curated Digital Exhibition at the Art Museum of South Texas — August 2020
Mothers in Time, Digital Coffee Table Book Collection with Urban Ivy Publishing Co. — May 2020
Queerantine Zine: Queer Art by & for Queer People — April 2020
Seasons of a Dyke: WMN Zine Issue 01 — January 2020
