Jessica Muise

As an artist, educator and community builder, Jessica Muise has always been drawn to creation which, as an act of transformation, helps us better understand ourselves and others. Her current work includes supporting a community of sixty artists at The Umbrella Community Arts Center, curating local public art and residency programs, and serving as the treasurer for CraftMass, a non-profit dedicated to supporting creative communities. She is also a member of the Boston Community Leaders Fellowship, a cohort of innovative community leaders who are re-imagining community for rising generations. Her experience includes more than a decade of presenting and teaching in the arts, operations and training at e-commerce giant Wayfair, streamlining admissions operations at MassArt, and supporting hundreds of artists, makers and entrepreneurs as the Member Services and Outreach Manager at Artisan’s Asylum, a 40,000 square foot community workshop in Somerville, MA. Lending her skills various shared cultural and community spaces, she recently volunteered as an adviser for the Boston Mini-Maker Faire, a grant panelist for the Somerville Arts Council, and is now an advisor to The Village Art Room and Center for the Arts at the Armory. Muise was recently awarded a certificate in Arts & Culture Strategy from UPenn and holds BA with honors from NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study in Dance in Education as Transformative Pedagogy. She holds certificates in permaculture design and master gardening, and enjoys working at the intersection of the arts and the environment.