Jessie Keating currently lives and works in Tacoma, WA, United States

EDUCATION

Institute for Doctoral Studies in Visual Arts, PhD Student, 2024-Current

Vermont College of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts, 2024

Washington State Teaching Artist Training LAB: 8-month Professional Course, 2016
University of Washington, Bachelor of Arts, 2003

EXHIBITIONS

2024   Fairy Tale Collection. UNDERSTORY. Cleveland, OH (group)

2024   And All Her Imaginary Happiness Disappeared Within a Moment. Gallery B612. Seattle, WA (group)

2024   The Internally Obvious. Susquehanna University. Selinsgrove, PA (group)

2024   The Internally Obvious: Performance. Susquehanna University. Selinsgrove, PA (group)

2024   Embodying Home. Susquehanna University. Selinsgrove, PA (group)

2023   Home is Wherever I’m With You. Colorado College. Colorado Springs, CO (group)

2023   Home is Wherever I’m With You. King’s Books. Tacoma, WA (solo)

2023   The Indexicality of Healing: A Snapshot of Communal Existence. The Ark, VCFA. Montpelier, VT (group)

2022   Disentangling the Threads of Identity and Finding Home Again: Tangled, Unwinding, and Undone. The Ark, VCFA. Montpelier, VT (group)

2022   Strapped. The Ark, VCFA. Montpelier, VT (group)

2022   Unconventional Portraits. Virtual Exhibit, VCFA. Online (group)

2022   Atlantis. Virtual Exhibit, VCFA. Online (group)

2022    Local Art – World Artists. Bookshop Under the Stairs. Port Orchard, WA (group)

2017    Shoreline Arts Festival Juried Art and Photo Show. Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council. Shoreline, WA (group)

2016    Solo Exhibition, Café Brosseau. Tacoma, WA (solo)

2015    Downtown Renton Art Walk. Renton, WA (group)

TEACHING POSITIONS

2019-2022    Private Art Teacher: K-12. Tacoma, WA

2016-2019    Geiger Elementary: Art Instructor. Tacoma, WA

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

2024    The Internally Obvious. Susquehanna University. Selinsgrove, PA

2017    Whole Educator Academy: How Does it Feel to be You Today? Tacoma Public Schools. Tacoma, WA (co-presenter)

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2022    Levin Lutz Award. Vermont College of Fine Arts

2021    Javan Erfanian Award. Vermont College of Fine Arts 

RESIDENCIES

2022    Centrum Residencies, Port Townsend, WA

2021    Centrum Residencies, Port Townsend, WA