About

Jess is a 7th generation interdisciplinary mixed media artist trained in transpersonal expressive arts, holistic creative arts and trauma informed expressive arts, as well as, arts in health and palliative care. She’s completed advanced graduate work in art history and digital art at Lindenwood University and music technology at Southern Utah University and MFA IA work from Goddard Collage, her Phd (Transpersonal Psychology), Masters in Applied Psychology and Bachelor’s in Education. She is a certified chaplain and ordained Reverend and has studied interfaith ecospirituality, practiced Bhakti yoga for more than two decades, engages in Buddhist practices and Quaker stillness as well as indigenous and animist practices of ceremony and spirit. As a trained and mentored Curandera Espiritu she has worked providing spiritual care and creative wellbeing expressive arts educational experiences to individuals around the World.



Jess's work in deeply influenced by her ancestry, women's history and the mystic as well as contemplative, spiritual practice.  She is the owner of Creative Pharmacy, a space for creative emotional and spiritual wellbeing, and former owner of Creative Mind Health (Colorado), Mindfulness Based Creative Arts Institute and former executive director of The Center for Therapeutic Expressive Arts 501c3.  She has decades of art education experience and mental health.

Her art has been shown throughout North America including Canyon Road in Santa Fe, NM.  She was a 2024 Official Artist for the Kansas City Parade of Hearts, featuring her work Confluence: Where All Paths Find Home and has been a participating artist in the KC Fringe Festival, Mosiac Life Center's Healing Art Gallery, 80 Santa Fe and Interurban Art House.   She is also a composer, vocalist and writer, authoring several books and releasing more than 23 albums over the past two decades under the performing names Magnetic Wind, Wen'deya, Mesawzee and Jes12Crows.  Her compositions were featured in film short, The Cabin, at the Tribeca Film Festival and was later released in France.  She works in multiple art modalities with traditional, technological and new media combinations and provides freelance video and film score composition, healing art curated bundles (art, music, writing and music), graphic design and fine art motion graphics with original soundtracks.