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 United States. She 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. Jessica found herself in Huntsville about 10 years ago.

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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 of Zoom 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 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. 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 running a school dedicated to illustration, comics and cartooning concepts and where she could showcase her own work as an illustrator and as a comic artist. 

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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 and vends at fine art festivals and conventions. Jessica is currently working on her own illustrations, comics and a coloring book. 

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