Writer, artist and strategic consultant with professional experience ranging from flamenco to international legal texts.

project direction

2022

Negotiations, logistics, reporting and volunteer coordination to create a cooperative art gallery project.

anti-racism materials

2021

Design and production of identity awareness and anti-racism videos, print materials and infographics for universities and colleges including StFX University and the Nova Scotia Community Colleges.

responses to gender-based violence

2021

Series of video, print and digital materials on interpersonal and self-awareness and dimensions of gender-based violence for staff and survivors served by networks Avalon and Alice House.

web presence

2019

Creating and transferring a new, bilingual website for master teacher Angel Atienza’s international flamenco academy in Seville, Spain.

Latest Creative

  • exploration: ink

    Drawing of fresh flowers with ink and brush through London Drawing Group’s Secrets of Seeing workshop series by Josh Armitage. This session explored seeing and making lines of contrasting weights by different means as a fundamental of the drawing process. So much fun! I’m exploring blogging as a way to record and share my art Read more

  • sold: sphynx

    This is one of three mixed media pieces I entered into the Acadia Art Gallery community show in September of 2022, my first time participating after completing an intensive course in abstract painting.  It was a pleasant surprise that someone bought it given the number and variety of work in the room! I hope that Read more

  • exhibit: Gallery 360

    I included several small abstract mixed media and collage pieces in the first set-up of the Evangeline Artists’ Co-op project space in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, now known as Gallery 360 in collaboration with Light & Lens photography studio. A highlight was selling a painting spotted through the window. It was sold before it even made Read more

About Me

I’m a second-generation settler in Mi’kma’ki, interested in justice, transformation and creative problem-solving in new professional settings. Relocation and remote collaborations are both options!

As a neuro-divergent person of color I’m interested in equity and accessibility personally as well as professionally.

My strengths: fatal honesty, seeing the funny side, speed-reading and genuine openness to understanding other people’s experiences of life.

“What a huge relief I feel! I started this project a year ago. Thank you so much for your dedication, your design skills, and your persistence in helping me to create this large number of presentations.”

Corrie Melanson

Corrie Melanson
Sea Change CoLab

“…an excellent and enthusiastic researcher who was ready to dive into any topic I needed explored. They not only found me great resources for a project I was working on, but summarized them in a way that made it very easy for me to pull out the information I needed. They also have a great sense of humour and are lots of fun to work with.”

Brook Thorndycraft
Big Waves

Get in touch with any questions, or to talk about working together.

email me: janesse@duck.com

read my writing on Medium