Mary Jeys is an interdisciplinary artist and activist. She has worked to promote social change in non-fiction media settings including the Center for Artistic Activism; a non-profit documentary production company, Aubin Pictures, Inc.; Hunter College’s Integrated Media Arts MFA program; and the School of Visual Arts with CUNY Graduate Center that respectively sponsored and hosted Where the Truth Lies, a conference on propaganda. She has participated in creative research opportunities including The Laundromat Project’s Create Change Professional Development Fellowship, LMCC’s Swing Space in New York, and the Desert Research Library in Joshua Tree, CA. She has received grants from FEAST in Brooklyn and Macktez. As a guest speaker, she has been invited to talk at Parsons The New School for Design’s MFA program in Transdisciplinary Design, and The Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program’s Fix It Yourself Lectures. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Sierra Nevada University.
Recent ongoing projects include The Brooklyn Torch and the current season of Sun Spot in Yucca Valley, CA.
Contact me at: maryjeys [at] gmail [dot] com