The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin
Jessica Poser leads a gallery talk in the William Blizard Gallery

Contact Info

Jessica Poser head shot
  • Doctor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Mass., 2007
  • Master of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Mass., 2002
  • Master of Fine Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Ill., 1997
  • Bachelor of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., 1992

Research Interests

  • Community Art
  • Creative Communities
  • Psychology of Art
  • Visual Research Methods

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Arts in the Community 
  • Studio in Painting
  • Studio in Design
  • Studio in Drawing
  • Arts and Ideas
  • Studio in Sculpture
  • Advanced Studio

Selected Works

Presentations

  • Available Distances Solo show. Bromfield Gallery. Boston, MA

  • Plus One. Bromfield Gallery. Boston, MA

  • Space is a Container Gallery @ CREATE Community. Cold Spring, NY

  • “More Light” Bromfield Gallery. Boston, MA

  • Sky Bowl. A3 Gallery. Amherst, MA

  • Patterns of Influence. The Painting Center, NY, NY

  • Composed to Decompose. Curated by Linda Weintraub and Michael Asbill. The Unison Art Center, New Paltz, NY

  • Ligare: to bind, connect MAP Gallery, Eastworks, Easthampton, MA

  • Rupture and Repair, Installation and performance, O+ Festival. North Adams, MA

  • Anxious Attachments: Work by Jessica Poser. Solo Show. Dane Gallery, Indian Orchard Mills. Indian Orchard, MA

  • An Eye, Open //Works by Petra Nimtz and Jessica Poser. Muroff Kotler Gallery, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY
  • Othering //BAA Biennial Berkshire Art Association, Pittsfield, MA,
    IN:SITE Century House Historical Society, Rosendale NY
  • Surface Tension // Works by Jessica Poser and John Bridges Greene Gallery, Guilford, CT
  • Ruin // Installation at the Beacon Room, Beacon Artist’s Union. Beacon, NY
  • Habitat for Artists // Greene Gallery, Guilford, CT
  • Habitat for Artists // Arts Brookfield, New York, NY
  • FOODshed Habitat for Artists // Smack Melllon. Brooklyn, NY
  • Artists from the Psychoanalytic Community // Group show. Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, New York, NY
  • Where have all the flowers gone? //Group show. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater.
  • Textures Group Show //Mid Hudson Heritage Center, Poughkeepsie. NY
  • Transported //Habitat for Artists: Art Pac Kit. Ideas City Festival 2013 and The New Museum. Brookfield Arts, New York, NY
  • Cut and Paste // Muroff-Kotler Visual Arts Gallery Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY
  • Fields of Vision // The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY
  • Shopkeepers // Public art work with Michael Asbill. Commissioned by Friends of Historic Kingston, NY
  • How Much, How Little, The Space to Create // Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC 
  • 5 x 5 //Temporary Public Art Project from the Washington DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
  • Beyond the Fringe // Group Textile show. Mid Hudson Heritage Center Poughkeepsie NY
  • Noise // Solo Show. Unison Gallery New Paltz, NY
  • In Situ //Group Show. KMOCA Kingston, NY
  • Fancy Work // Solo show at the Dubois Fort Gallery, Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY