Collaborative Artists
Meet the Artists
Our artists represent new and unique voices within the artistic community. They bring a diverse set of perspectives and approaches.
Jenna Anast, 2022 – Photo By: Courtney Morrison.
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Jamiece Adams
In-SessionJamiece is a gender-expansive educator, writer, and creator. Their written work has been published in Hypertext Magazine, the Lambda Literary Fellowship Anthology, and elsewhere. She is the founder of the Swish Queer Basketball Club an organization that provides a brave space for QTBIPOC folks to play ball and build community.
Jamila Kinney
Culture of CareJamila Kekulah Kinney (they) are ever evolving in this space time continuum. Jamila is the creator of The Moving Soul, a holistic somatic movement practice that bridges the gap between soma, psyche and soul. They cultivate practices of awareness, sensing and feeling the potency of the bodymind connection.
As a movement artist, Jamila creates performances rooted in spirit, exploring the inner landscape of self, others, and nature. They are currently a CO-MISSION artist in residence at Links Hall. It is their mission to guide folks into relationship with themselves and to be at home in their body. They envisions a world where folks live, love, and relate with each other from an embodied and mindful place.
Jenna Anast
Outside the WallsRad LabJenna is a multi-disciplinary artist focused on digital media and performance art. Jenna is an educator dedicated to uplifting the stories and voices of people of the global majority and dismantling the way media weaponizes Black and Brown people.
Jenna is the founder of Journey’s with Jenna LLC, which provides social-emotional consulting, radical HR, and transformative justice mapping.
Jenna is the creator and host of a talk show experience called Craft Service. Like a cooking show for the soul, Jenna Anast’s new talk show Craft Service opens avenues of imagination through a blend of social justice, comedy and magic. In this show, Jenna interviews creators and manifestors across the world about bravery, shame, healing and life at large. At the end of each episode, the audience will walk away with a spell for their tool-kit and words of wisdom for manifestation. From featured guests Hannibal Buress to Tutu Zondo-Rurale, this show is an ever-changing testament to how, in community, we have everything we need.
Jessica V. Newman
In-SessionJessica Newman (she/her) is a Black woman mover and cultural bridge builder. At an early age, Jessica;s experiences encouraged her to interrogate educational and economic inequities. Jessica focuses on workplace inclusion, racial healing, and advocacy in hopes to transform where and how we work for future generations.
Image description: Jessica proud Chicagoan, dancer, cultural bridge builder who aims to ‘reimagine’ how we move in everyday spaces. Here captured in a self-portrait in a pure moment of rediscovery of self, self-love, and self-worth. #Iam
Jireh L. Drake
Rad Labjireh l. drake (they // them) is a Chicago-based unapologetic queer, black, trans non-binary baddie & abolitionist organizer. they are a mixed media drawing and sculpting artist & writer. they use art to tenderly unearth trauma & imagine new worlds where we strive to put things as right as possible to heal.
Jordan Brown
In-SessionJordan Brown is a visual artist and writer based in Chicago, IL. His interdisciplinary practice in sculpture, installation, textile, video, and collage assembles personal mythologies from old clothing, text, and found objects. Born and raised in the DC-metropolitan area, he holds an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jorge Félix
Rad LabJorge Félix is an Afro-Boricua multidisciplinary artist, and curator based in Chicago. He became known in the city for his ‘Body Construction’ painting installations where he molded the canvas to create reliefs, sculptures, and installations. From an early age, Félix’s grandfather instills a passion for community organizing, and in Chicago, he found that the research of food culture could become a tool to ease community in conversations. Félix’s Sofrito Conversations welcome community leaders, elected officials, artists, and neighbors to make old fashion recipes of ‘sofrito’ at a round table while facilitating a storytelling conversation about cooking traditions. There Félix highlights a dialogue that celebrates cultural differences and commonalities among participants to create bonds among participants. Félix focuses his work on the Hermosa neighborhood where he is a 22-year resident but also addresses issues relevant to the northwest community of Chicago. Félix, a biracial gay man born in Puerto Rico, is particularly invested in addressing the racial divide between Latin@s and African Americans in northwest Chicago. Félix earned a Master of Fine Arts in painting and history from Bowling Green State University and a Master of Arts in Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
