Artist Bio
Jas Jermaine Turk (they/she) [b. Baltimore, 1990] is a Black, queer, self-taught Mixed-Media Collage Artist and Cultural Sustainability Practitioner.
Jas seeks to prompt viewers to consider themes surrounding cultural continuity, ancestral remembrance, and storytelling, throughout their creative endeavors. Through their art practice, Jas centers sacred spaces of memory where ancestral strength is not lost to time but instead continually reshaped and honored.
Jas earned their Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Northern Kentucky University in 2025, and their Master of Arts in Cultural Sustainability from Goucher College in 2021.
Artist Statement
Jas seeks to deliver messaging of continuity, Black ancestral remembrance, storytelling, and cultural amplification throughout their creative endeavors. They describe their artistic practice as being fluid, ritualistic, regenerative, & deeply rooted in intention.
Jas’ creative practice prompts them to continuously morph, shift, and rearrange placement and thoughts in order to create new bodies of work–for Jas, those repetitive processes feel much like a ritual; like a ceremony to their self and their creativity.
At its core, Jas views their mixed-media collage art practice as a language, a dance, and as an interpretation; a syntax of coalesced elements that are looking for a way to be bound together communally, in a new arrangement, expressed abstractly or unambiguously.
