Jessica Scott Felder Visual Art

Artist Bio

 

Jessica Scott-Felder is a visual and performance artist from Atlanta, Georgia. She is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art and teaches Drawing, Design, Figure Drawing, Painting, Printmaking and Senior Capstone in the Department of Art and Art History at Wofford College located in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She completed her undergraduate studies in Studio Art from Spelman College, an MFA in Drawing, Painting and Printmaking from Georgia State University and studied experimental printmaking at the Santa Reparata School of Art in Florence, Italy.

 

Jessica’s latest performance art piece, Adornment was featured in the group exhibition "Africa Forecast," at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in Atlanta and also featured in the 2017 edition of the Emergency Index, a nationally distributed performance art catalog. She was the 2017 featured visiting artist at Ithaca College in New York where she presented her artistic research on “Black Matter”, an installation based on Black Hole physics, American folklore, Afrofuturism and imagination. Her drawings have been featured in nationally and internationally recognized spaces such as the A.I.R Gallery in New York and the Telfair Museum in Savannah, Ga. Her work is featured in private and corporate collections in Spartanburg, Cambridge, New York, New Jersey and the Four Seasons Hotel in Atlanta.