

Jessica Ann Nunno

Jessica is a professional full time working artist. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts in NYC with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration. She is a classically trained artist who is versed in many different mediums. Jessica also has a number of professional development hours in art integration, psychology and marketing. She owns and operates her small business out of a studio in Lowe Mill Arts & Entertainment, located in Huntsville, AL. Lowe Mill is the largest private owned art community in the Southern United States. Jessica grew up in Connecticut, very close to the border of Manhattan. She has spent a lot of time living, traveling and working throughout New England, but Jessica found herself in Huntsville, AL around 10 years ago where she now operates her business.
Jessica is an accomplished Illustrator and Teaching Artist. She went full time as a freelancer in 2020 the year the pandemic hit. Not knowing at the beginning of the year as she made this change that the pandemic would hit her small business hard as it had for so many others. That year she lost 14 booked shows, her studio was forced closed and outsiders were not allowed into the schools. In response to this, Jessica jumped on the abilities Zoom had and moved all of her private lesson students online. She started running online group classes and a free online art club for preteens and teenagers. Because she was one of a few people willing to teach in person during this time Jessica was brought into the Huntsville Museum of Art as a substitute teacher and quickly became a reoccurring teaching artist working with multiple age groups and subjects for the museum. Around the same time Jessica was approached by the North Alabama Arts Education Collaborative. She became the teaching visual artist for their arts integration program. In response to the pandemic and not being able to enter the schools the NAAEC and Jessica partnered to provide children with arts education that was accessible when they had none. That year Jessica made 69 tutorial videos using household materials and easily accessible art supplies that went out to 5 different schools and on social media.
The following year she would join Arts Huntsville's steering committee to improve arts education in North Alabama and begin professional development courses in arts integration. She also held her first 2 solo gallery shows and she created a .5 mile long mural along Blue Springs Road in Huntsville, AL as a part of the beautification of Huntsville project. She won multiple awards and started to jury into large fine art festivals and conventions. She has had multiple solo and group gallery showings since and with more on the books. In 2024 Jessica was chosen to be the lead poster artist for Huntsville's long running, internationally known fine art festival: Panoply. Every year Arts Huntsville chooses a local artist who has juried into Panoply in the past and is active in the local art community. For Panoply's 42nd year she was chosen and made the first Panoply poster where the original sold in under 15 minutes of it being unveiled to the public. Now, as a reward for being the Panoply Poster artist, Jessica has a standing spot at Panoply and will be at the festival for every year in the foreseeable future.
Jessica went from a very uncertain circumstance to having a thriving well rounded business as a full time artist. All of this work allowed Jessica to open a large studio on the first floor of Lowe Mill where she could pursue her goal of expanding the art education side of her business as well as significantly more workspace and a larger retail space.
Jessica currently runs her studio/ school out of Lowe Mill A&E, is a teaching artist for the Huntsville Museum of Art and for a subsection of Arts Huntsville the Creative Launchpad (formerly North Alabama Arts Education Collaborative). She teaches her own private art lessons and group lessons/ workshops. She runs a retail store out of her studio and online. She regularly books solo and group gallery shows, gives speeches, runs panels and vends at fine art festivals and conventions. Jessica is currently working on her own illustrations, comics and a coloring book.

Education Affiliations
Education Affiliations
2005 - 2009
BFA in Illustration
School of Visual Arts
New York, NY
Jessica studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City for 4 years. During this time she studied multiple different mediums, developed her foundation as an artist, was a part of group gallery shows and had to prepare a professional portfolio in order to graduate. Jessica earned her terminal BFA degree in Illustration. Making her a professional working artist when she graduated.
2017 - Present
Freelance Illustrator, Teaching Artist, Business Owner
Inkspitter Studio
Huntsville, AL
Jessica owns and operates her own small business located in Lowe Mill Arts and Entertainment. Formerly known as Jessica Nunno Art, to better serve her purposes the business became known as Inkspitter Studio. Within her business Jessica: freelances as an illustrator, creates her own illustrations, comics and books, paints murals, sells her work outside of her studio plus art festivals and conventions, participates in solo and group gallery shows, runs her own private lessons, group classes/ workshops and makes tutorial/ process videos.
2020 - Present
Teaching Artist
Huntsville Museum of Art
Huntsville, AL
Jessica works as a teaching artist. She is contracted by the museum to teach a variety of classes to a variety of age groups. She has taught anywhere from pre k and adults on a weekly basis. And, has taught anywhere from pencil, pastel, mixed media, watercolor, acrylic, print making, brush calligraphy, quilling and sculpture for the museum.
2020 - Present
Teaching Artist
Creative Launchpad
Huntsville, AL
Jessica works as a contracted teaching artist for Creative Launchpad a subsection of Arts Huntsville (formerly known as North Alabama Arts Education Collaborative). She makes up the visual arts section of the organization. Jessica partners with classroom teachers to use art integration techniques to pair art with a current subject or school standards. She works with multiple grade levels from lower elementary to high school. Examples of classes Jessica has run include: An entire semester creating a character and a comic issue for 4th graders where they presented the comic in their own mini convention. An entire school participated in a classroom mural by each member of the student and facility painting a cinder block, having 3rd graders create their own Roman god or goddess and an two 7th grade classes sculpting every part of a plant and animal cell.
2021 - Present
Committee Member
Steering Committee for Arts Huntsville
Huntsville, AL
Jessica was invited to be a member of Arts Huntsville's steering committee dedicated to improving art education in North Alabama. She helped change name of the North Alabama Arts Education Collaborative to Creative Launchpad, helped with their improved education mission statement and has taken professional development courses in arts integration. She is now certified to teach arts integration to other classroom teachers.




