Jess X. Snow

Jess X. Snow (Chinese: 陈雪; born 1992) is an Asian-American poet, filmmaker, artist and arts educator.[1]

As a member and teaching artist of the Justseeds Artists Co-operative, she works with previously incarcerated families, migrant and indigenous youth communities to produce art and poetry.

Jess X. Snow
Born 1992
Education Rhode Island School of Design
Website http://jessxchen.com/

Biography

Recognition

Her artwork has appeared in Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, United Nations Human Rights Council and on indoor and outdoor walls throughout the United States. Her films have screened at the Asian Cinevision Diversity Screening at The New York Times. Her poems have appeared in the Offing, Nepantla, The Blueshift Journal. TEDx conferences, backyards, and on stages and rooftops nationwide.[1] She contributes to Hyphen Magazine.[2] In 2015 to 2016, she has been featured for poetry at EMW Community Space's East Meets Words, the Nuyorican Poets Café, Asian American Writers' Workshop, Yale University, Columbia University, The NYC Asian American Student Conference, and Popsickle (Brooklyn's Literary Arts Festival).[3][4]

Education

From 2009 to 2013, Snow attended the Rhode Island School of Design for her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film/Animation/Video and Literary Arts.[5] She graduated with high honors and served as the commencement speaker. She also attended Brown University for writing for performance.[5] Snow is currently pursuing an MFA in directing at NYU TIsch School of the Arts. [6]

Family

After the Cultural Revolution, her parents immigrated from rural Nanchang, China to Canada.[1]

Poetry

Snow performs and tours nationally for her poetry and spoken word. She also received recognition for her poetry. In 2016, Snow's poem "Hunger Drives The Body into Imagination" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.[7] Her poem "If Cygnus Were A Refugee" was nominated for Best of the Net Anthology.[8]

  • "The Last Words of the Honey Bees," Nepantla: Issue II
  • "Hunger Drives The Body Into Imagination,"(nominated for a Pushcart Prize), The Blueshift Journal[9]
  • "Inheriting The Hurricane" Foundry Journal[10]
  • "The Resistance of the Anglerfish," and "The Day I Cracked Open Heaven," The Offing[11][11]
  • "The Field of Cattle" in Wildness[12]
  • "If Cygnus Were A Refugee" (nominated for Best of the Net Anthology) "Embroidery", and "First Day of Spring" Storyscape Journal[13][14]
  • "What I Saw Through The Telescope", The Margins[15]
  • "How To Forgive 100 Years After A War," Hyphen Magazine[16]

Art

Murals and Installations

Featured in the LA Times, "We Always Had Wings" is a community mural project in downtown Los Angeles featuring migration of the endangered Yellow-billed cuckoo and portraits of 15 migrant girls at the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex.[17]

"Immigration Is Transformation" was on view at Belonging: Before and After the Immigration Act of 1965 at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience in Seattle's Chinatown until February 2016 (curated by Minh Nguyen).[18][19][20] It is created from layers of hand-cut Japanese kozo paper, wire, and fishing line in 2015.

"O Wind, Take Me to mMy Country" is a mural at the Art Bar Gallery in Kingston, NY on a three-story wall for the 7th Annual O+ Festival.[21] It features a portrait of Safia Elhillo, a Sudanese-Migrant poet.

"Ain't I A Women" is a mural finished in fall 2015 in collaboration with Jetsonorama and features portraits of poets Mahogany Browne and T'ai Freedom Ford with Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" text.[22]

"We Be Darker Than Blue" is a mural installed at the BRIC art space in New York City and portrays two generations of black woman poets: Mahogany Browne and Sonia Sanchez, pioneer of the black arts movement.[23] It is based on the Frida Kahlo painting "The Two Fridas."

Performances and Talks

Performances

"The Inverse of You Is The Universe," SlamFind 2015[24]

Ghost Town, 2012[25]

Talks

Snow has given artist talks and lectures at Vassar College, TEDx CUNY, Netroots Nation, Wellesley College, Willamette University, Pacific Lutheran University, University of Connecticut, Pacific Northwest College of Art on behalf of Artists Against Police Violence, and Institute of American Indian Arts with Demian DinéYazhi. She also participated in multiple panels and conferences:

  • Preemptive Education Conference at New York University with Lunar New Year
  • open engagement at the Oakland Museum of California with Lunar New Year
  • Bushwick Film Festival LGBTQ Panel at BRIC Arts Media House with Tiq Milan and Trae Harris
  • Eco-Feminism Conference at Santa Monica College with Tani Ikeda
  • Associations of Asian American Studies Conference with Ryan Wong, Victory Matsui and Chad Shomura
  • Split This Rock Poetry Conference with Safia Elhillo and Hila Ratzabi
  • Ferguson: Past Present and Future at the Rhode Island School of Design with Jonathan Key, on behalf of Artists Against Police Violence

The following are a few selected talks and speeches:

  • "Migration: The Radical Imagination," TEDx CUNY 2015[26]
  • "On Colony Collapse & Eco-Feminism," Netroots Nation: Ignite Conference 2015[27]
  • "Undergraduate Commencement Speech" Rhode Island School of Design, 2013[28]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "ABOUT – JESS X CHEN". www.jessxchen.com. Retrieved 2016-12-17.
  2. ↑ "Jess X. Chen". Hyphen Magazine. 8 January 2016. Retrieved 2016-12-17.
  3. ↑ "April 11, 2014 EAST MEETS WORDS OPEN MIC FEATURING: JESS X CHEN & PAUL TRAN". EMW Bookstore. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  4. ↑ "East Meets Words Featuring Jess X. Chen & Kit Yan". EMW Bookstore. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  5. 1 2 "Linkedin | Jess X. Chen".
  6. ↑ "ABOUT - Jess X Snow". www.jessxsnow.com. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  7. ↑ "Blueshift Journal on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  8. ↑ "Storyscape Journal – Issue 16 – If Cygnus were a Refugee by Jess X. Chen". storyscapejournal.com. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  9. ↑ "The Blueshift Journal". The Blueshift Journal. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  10. ↑ "Jess X. Chen". Foundry. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  11. 1 2 "Two Micros by Jess X. Chen | The Offing". The Offing. 23 March 2016. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  12. ↑ "W I L D N E S S". readwildness.com. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  13. ↑ "Storyscape Journal – Issue 16 – Embroidery by Jess X. Chen". storyscapejournal.com. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  14. ↑ "Storyscape Journal – Issue 16 – First Day of Spring 2016 by Jess X. Chen". storyscapejournal.com. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  15. ↑ "Asian American Writers' Workshop – What I Saw Through The Telescope". aaww.org. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  16. ↑ "January Lit: "How to Forgive 100 Years After a War" by Jess X. Chen". Hyphen Magazine. 21 January 2016. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  17. ↑ "WE ALWAYS HAD WINGS – JESS X CHEN". jessxchen.com. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  18. ↑ "Belonging: Before & After the Immigration Act of 1965 | Digital Exhibition". www.wingluke.org. Retrieved 2016-12-17.
  19. ↑ "IMMIGRATION IS TRANSFORMATION – JESS X CHEN". jessxchen.com. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  20. ↑ "Belonging: Before & After the Immigration Act of 1965 | Digital Exhibition". www.wingluke.org. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  21. ↑ "O WIND, TAKE ME TO MY COUNTRY – JESS X CHEN". jessxchen.com. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  22. ↑ "AIN'T I A WOMAN? – JESS X CHEN". jessxchen.com. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  23. ↑ "WE BE DARKER THAN BLUE – JESS X CHEN". jessxchen.com. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  24. ↑ SlamFind (18 October 2015), Jess X Chen – "The Inverse of You Is the Universe", retrieved 2016-12-18
  25. ↑ "Jess X. Chen performs "Ghost Town"". Vimeo. Retrieved 2016-12-19.
  26. ↑ TEDx Talks (8 April 2016), Immigration as Radical Imagination | Jess X Chen | TEDxCUNY, retrieved 2016-12-18
  27. ↑ "YELLOW/BLACK/BROWN – JESS X CHEN". jessxchen.com. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  28. ↑ "Jessie Chen – Undergraduate Student Speaker – RISD Commencement 2013". Vimeo. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
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