Brooklyn, NY, United States
Jess X. Snow is a queer migrant asian-canadian artist, filmmaker, and pushcart-nominated poet based in Brooklyn, NY. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, they are currently a MFA candidate at NYU Graduate Film. Through film, large-scale murals, poetry and art education, they are working to build a future where queer, trans and migrant people of color may see themselves heroic on the big screen and city walls & then can grow up with the agency to create their own. Their murals and political graphics have appeared on outdoor buildings across the country and on PBS Newshour, The LA Times, and in the permanent collection of the Ford Foundation and the Library of Congress. Their art and films have been used as organizing tools at protests such as the Women’s March on Washington, as a part of migrant rights organizing on both sides of the border, as well as on college campuses to support survivors and end rape culture. Their multi-disciplinary practice combines art and somatic healing practices to empower communities to discover inside their own bodies—a sanctuary of healing and collective liberation.
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Justseeds artist Jess X. Snow just finished a mural about inter generational healing commissioned by Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts . Read more in this article from the SF…
The painful reality of this political moment is personal for many of us. As Kavanaugh becomes our new Supreme Court justice, let the survivors of the world know that not…
Last month justseeds artist, Jess X. Snow, and friends Layqa Nuna Yawar and Tani Ikeda created “A Monument for Survival”–a mural installation for @werise_la for the movement Survivor Love Letter. #Survivorloveletter…
Safe Among The Stars is a short film directed by justseeds artist Jess X. Snow about a queer Asian American woman (starring Poppy Liu and their mom, Leah and Vera…
A two-sided mural by justseeds artist, Jess X Snow for Living Walls, the City Speaks in Atlanta. A mother gives birth to a daughter and carries her across the Pacific….
‘To Allah we belong and to Allah we return’ is a rough translation of the dua said at someone’s death. Blessed is this temporary cycle. We are part of a…
Just this morning, justseeds artist Jess X. Snow & public artist, Lunar New Year lead a free community public art and mural workshop at Urban Word’s annual Preemptive Education Conference at New…
TOUR Join award-winning queer Asian-American poets, Kit Yan and Jess X. Chen (justseeds artist) on the Queer Heartache Summer Tour. Combining oceanic laughter, the violence of heartbreak, and the sorrow lost…
I’m sending care and love on behalf of justseeds toward the queer&trans migrant warriors and families that lost their lives this morning in Orlando and the LGBTQ community at large,…
Justseeds member Jess X. Chen, and Diné artist Demian Dineyazhi, are going on an eco-feminist poetry tour across America between May 5-May 17th 2016! Stops include: Los Angeles, Tucson, Gallup,…
Justseeds artist Jess X. Chen has been hiding in a hermit hole writing poems exploring eco-feminism, environmental resilience and love amidst diaspora, violence and trauma. Here are some of her…
I’ve spent the last month or so in collaboration with Asian-American filmmaker Tani Ikeda, Immediate Justice, and the Center for Biological Diversity leading a weekly stencil and mural workshop to…
We Be Darker Then Blue, a mural by Chip Thomas (Jetsonorama) and Jess X. Chen This mural, installed at the BRIC art space in NYC, portrays a poetic sisterhood spanning…
During the holidays, remember to write to those incarcerated and migrants in detention centers who are so far away from their homes and loved ones. Here are two amazing organizations…