Jessie Dean is an interdisciplinary artist who has spent 17 years living and working in Albuquerque, NM. She was raised having to move often, from coast to coast, and learned early on how to steady her uncertainty of place through artistic practice. From childhood coloring books to a BFA in metals in 2006, creating remained a constant. That practice has ebbed and flowed in the many interceding years while raising kids in a world that often imposes expectations and demands of unreasonable magnitude upon women and motherhood. Over the past several years Jessie has found her way back to a consistent art practice and now uses that life growth to inform work that turns toward the contemplative nature of fiber art and water media.