Bio

Jess Braden
(b. 1985, Santa Cruz California)

A byproduct of residual hippie idealism of and the brash environment of professional kitchen culture, Jess has always taken the long way around. She is currently a BFA candidate in printmaking at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Jess’s work has been shown at Lowe Mill Arts and Entertainment (Huntsville, AL), Todd Art Gallery (Murfreesboro, TN) and Remarque Print Workshop (Albuquerque, New Mexico). She is a recipient of the Jeffrey Bayer Memorial Scholarship awarded for a body of work (2024).

She’s been a workshop participant at Women's Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY, 2024) and has presented research at the Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Research Symposium at Johns Hopkins (2024, 2025), The University of Alabama in Birmingham (2024) and the SUNY New Paltz Art History Symposium (2025). Jess currently works as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (Introduction to Printmaking).

She currently resides in the Tennessee Valley with my husband, children and legion of cats.