COLLAGE & ARCHIVING AS A VEHICLE FOR STORYTELLING.
MEMORY + REMEMBRANCE AS A MEANS OF ANCESTRAL BONDS.
About the Artist
Jas Jermaine (they/she) [b. 1990] is a Black, queer self-taught Analog Collage Artist. Jas is a Cultural Sustainability Practitioner who received their Master of Arts in Cultural Sustainability from Goucher College in 2021—and their Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Marketing in 2025.
/// Jas seeks to deliver messaging of preservation, Black ancestral remembrance, storytelling, and cultural amplification throughout their creative endeavors.
/// Their artistic practice includes the incorporation of sourced archival photographs, recycled paper, and other repurposed materials that call to their unique creations.
“Without a decolonized archival praxis, the most marginalized & oppressed voices, cultures, traditions, representations, & references are lost.”
-JAS JERMAINE