Jessica Kallista

Jessica Kallista is an artist working in collage, video, sound, poetry, and performance. She is also an educator, curator, and activist. She received her MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in poetry from George Mason University in 2002. In November 2014 she founded Olly Olly, an alternative art space and resource, in Fairfax, Virginia.

Jessica is the 2022 recipient of George Mason University's Margaret C. Howell Outstanding Achievement Award. In 2023 she received George Mason University's Sojourner Truth Faculty Award which recognizes an instructional faculty member whose scholarship, teaching, and activism are at the intersections of race and gender.

Degree:

MFA, Creative Writing, with a concentration in poetry, George Mason University, 2002

Specialist Areas:

• Aesthetics
• Critical Theory in Visual Art
• Writing for Artists
• Analog Collage