Jessica Held has been a visiting, resident, and teaching artist in schools and art centers for decades. Since earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts, she has taught art enrichment and appreciation classes, interdisciplinary and STEAM lessons, all-ages community art events, and summer art camps in Ohio, Texas, Indiana, and Michigan.
At The Dairy Barn Arts Center, she teaches teen art clubs and summer art camps. Additionally, through Ohio University’s Kids on Campus partnership, she teaches after-school art enrichment for elementary, middle, and high school students in neighboring counties of Southeast Ohio. Recently, Jessica was accepted onto the Ohio Arts Council’s (OAC) Teaching Artist Roster and selected to teach in OAC’s Creative Aging initiative, a program for aging adults in Ohio.
As a practicing artist, she continues to create, exhibit, and publish her paintings, photographs, and collaborations. Her work has been exhibited in the Women of Appalachia Project and published in the Women Speak book series.
Jessica is the artist and owner of Flux and Function LLC, where she creates functional art, including painted lazy susans, coasters, TV trays, and light switch plates. Also, her detailed photographs are printed on cards, journals, trivets, scarves, and earrings. She prioritizes using locally sourced materials and services whenever possible. Recently, her small business was awarded an Ohio’s Winding Road Seed Grant.
In addition to her art practice, Jessica serves as the Community Marketplace Coordinator for the annual Ohio Pawpaw Festival. She recently had the opportunity to be the art editor for Native Fruit: Poetry and Fine Art Inspired by the Pawpaw.
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