Jason is a thriving artist, visual arts instructor and indigenous storyteller. He exhibits his works in galleries and museums regionally as well as throughout the country, and also teaches children and adults in his Red Willow Art Studio in Rensselaer.

He holds a B.F.A. from Purchase College and an M.F.A. in visual arts from the University at Albany. That strong foundation undergirds his far-ranging professional experiences and creative endeavors, which include corporate graphic design, college-level teaching, curriculum mapping and curatorial work. He currently teaches at the Albany Academies and chairs the Heldeberg Workshop in Voorheesville.

This past year, Jason has participated in a number of shows at ACG, including The Gallery Mixtape, Vol. 1 and Mirror. He also led the Kachina Doll Project in an Art.Work.Space. youth workshop, in which students learned to make spirit dolls based on the kachina craft and culture of the Southwest Pueblo tribes.

Jason’s own art process is concerned with visualizing the spirit world. “I am interested in how currently and historically humans have interpreted their reality through storytelling, creative communication and mark making. Each piece I make is the continuity of my own storytelling of awakening, neo-mythology and healing,” he says.

He adds that spiritual practice, history, popular culture and his indigenous heritage have shaped his works. “The art conveys a fluidity between the traditional space of my native tradition and that of modern theory and identity. Their coexistence is an expression of the way in which stories can both describe, heal, build and rebuild identity.”