Jasmine Iona Brown is a visual artist and the founder/lead teacher for the new Swan Creek Art Academy, which will teach digital art, spoken word and DJing for low-income teens. She has also taught summer camps for Pratt and Arts Corps. She specializes in working with low-income youth that don't have access to expensive art education options.
Teaching Superpower: “Rhino level tough skin. I took over a middle school classroom no one else could manage and turned it around. I like working with difficult troubled youth with attitudes and watching them blossom.”
One of Brown’s biggest take-aways from TAT Lab was “working on translating my lessons into solid lesson plans helped when I was teaching full-time for Tacoma School district and teaching after school programs for various non-profits.” She also writes, “What I'll never forget about TAT lab is meeting so many other creatives.”
As a visual artist, Brown is well known for her acclaimed series of Byzantine style egg-tempera icons memorializing a few of the many children of color that are lost to violence every year. She has also expanded into public art and her temporary public art installation, “Black Teen Wearing Hoodie” photo mural series, has been seen at Photo Center NW, the Frye Museum, Seattle University and Amazon, as well as other mural work for Africatown and Sound transit. Her permanent public art installations include a bronze statue at Eastside Community Center in Tacoma, and cut metal sculptures for Spokane Libraries and Seattle's Uncle Bob's Place Apartments in the International district.
You can support Swan Creek Art Academy as they raise funds for equipment (iPads, art supplies & dj controllers) by making a tax deductible donation here!
