about

Jasmine is a University educator, nationally exhibiting Artist and highly skilled Textiles specialist whose work focusses on surface design, conceptual depth and attention to detail. She received her MFA in Textiles from Kent State University School of Art in 2018. Exploration and process are important elements in her work as well as incorporating sustainable techniques into her making practice such as low impact dyeing, material choice, recycling and craft practices. Her Artistic practice employs the textiles medium in a sculptural capacity, the relationship between cloth, the body and the mind is a continual conversation. Above all, she is a creative, innovative tinkerer with an extreme sensitivity to form, texture and color.  Currently residing in Northeast Ohio, she is a FT NTT Assistant Professor in the Design Program at the School of Fashion, Kent State University.

Artist Statement

The focus of my work is informed by my consuming consideration of the subject of stress. The balancing act of coping, and ultimately coexisting, with stress is examined through the vocabulary of textiles. To focus and concentrate on meaningful content through active engagement in construction, such as hand weaving, felting and spinning; methods antithetical to the causes of contemporary stressors. The systematic nature of weaving as an organizational tool expresses our natural urge to find balance and structure. This time consuming process involves methodical repetition and order and as the foundational process it is representative of control as well as the continuous flow of time. The material choices and techniques utilized in the weaving process create variations and interruptions that are meant to express the incongruity of life’s stressors. Through the use of this visual language I explore the effects of mental, physical and emotional stress through personal experience.