Show Boat changed her life. It was the sum­mer of 2006 that Jess braved the stage for the first time since high school to be a cho­rus girl in Cindy Graham’s pro­duc­tion of Show Boat at the Ariel The­atre. It was also that sum­mer that she ended a bad mar­riage, moved into her own home with her baby girl, Seren­ity (Reni) and started back at Rio Grande after a 3 year “extended vaca­tion” with no clear idea of what she was doing there.

The­atre kept Jess going. First a small Shake­speare play at the col­lege, then a fate­ful Broad­way Revue, where she designed her first show poster and was asked “Why aren’t you in Graphic Design?” The next fall she was offi­cially an Art Major and hasn’t looked back. Now, sev­eral shows later, her daugh­ter is look­ing at start­ing real school life in Kinder­garten while she’s look­ing at finally finishing.

Jess has ded­i­cated the last eight years of her life to study­ing graphic design and web devel­op­ment, in school and out, and apply­ing that knowl­edge in free­lance work in the area. She’s a rare breed with an eye for art, lay­out and typog­ra­phy, yet still unafraid to nav­i­gate the more tech­ni­cal side of the web. She’s cur­rently using her skills to pro­mote Fine Arts, Wor­ship, and Lit­er­a­ture, the beau­ti­ful things in life, from her home in Gal­lipo­lis, and was recently hired as an in-house designer for a grow­ing local busi­ness. She plans to con­tinue life here with Reni and her best friend Stephen for as long as this chap­ter in her life lasts.

The winged wolf is a sym­bol Jess has long embraced. The strength, sta­bil­ity and loy­alty of the wolf when given the free­dom, cre­ativ­ity and spirit of its own set of unique wings rep­re­sents every­thing Jess stands for. Her free­lance work is done with this theme, under the name “Wing o’ the Wolf Designs.” Her artis­tic goal is to com­bine the the­atri­cal, the musi­cal and the mag­i­cal in her visual work. She of course blames her fam­ily for the way she is.