Apr 4
Convocation with Leeya Rose Jackson
Leeya Rose Jackson is an Artist, Creative Director, Filmmaker, Illustrator, and Graphic Designer from Detroit, Mi, and living in Minneapolis, MN. She runs an illustration shop under her moniker, LeeyaMakesNoise, and is the Creative Founder of Noisemakers Design Shop. Her work explores the intersections of identity, specifically Blackness, femininity, and queerness, with the added motifs of celestial/universal surrealism. Distinctive features of her work across all mediums are loud, vibrant color, maximalism, and afro-futurism.
She has practiced painting for 15 years, earning her BFA in Fine Art from Illinois Wesleyan University. She has exhibited in Florence, Italy, Detroit, Mi, California, Minneapolis, Fargo, ND, and Boston, MA. She is a member of the Mpls artist community, Roho Collective, and part of the Public Functionary Studios Program. Leeya is a recipient of a 2023/24 MCAD–Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Early Career Artists, administered by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and funded by the Jerome Foundation. She has done artist residencies in Moorhead, MN, Fargo, ND at NDSU/Pears Printmaking Institute, and 2024 Grand Marais Artist Residency. Her illustration and graphic design have been commissioned by Afropunk Music Festival, American Public Media, The Coven Mpls, Adobe x Billie Eilish, Sony Music, Giphy, Metro Transit, Outside Lands Festival, Heinz, The Prince Estate, Voyageurs National Park, and NPCA.