Meet our faculty - Ms. Jessica Warren, Art

We are excited to share a little bit about our newest faculty member, Ms. Jessica Warren. 

Jessica C. Warren is an arts educator and arts programs director with more than 15 years of experience cultivating the creative process of individuals.  She earned her B.F.A in Visual Art and B. S in Art Education from Western Carolina University and started her teaching career teaching high school in Boston, Massachusetts before coming to North Carolina. Ms. Warren taught at Raleigh Charter High School from 2003-2008.  

In 2003, she became the Alamance County Arts Council’s Program Director planning the programming that the Arts Council provides to the community, including a highly competitive NEA grant to bring arts educational programming to the county.  She put on major exhibition events such as Willow Walk Holiday Invitational (a biannual sculpture show with over 100 artists participating), as well as the Wooten Family Foundation Exhibitions. In 2011, she helped bring  to Alamance County the world-renowned J. Seward Johnson, Jr.'s trompe l'oeil painted bronze statues. 

For the last two years she has developed and taught a curriculum for an entirely digital art program at a New Tech Network school. Ms. Warren received her M.F.A in Visual Arts from Vermont College in 2004.  The M.F.A in Visual Arts program was one which empowered her to create and sustain vital and generative practices. The program’s precedent-setting pedagogy is based on the understanding that art does not exist in a void but within a social context, and that process is part of the product.  It is with the experiences from this program that Ms. Warren continues to be a showing and practicing artist.