BIO
Jessee Rose Crane is a multidisciplinary sculptor, arts administrator, and musician based in New Douglas, Illinois. Her approach to sculpture joins technical skills with a creative process that encourages play and embraces art in the everyday. Her practice combines steel with a variety of media to craft both functional objects and conceptual experimentations used in exhibitions, videos, and live performances with her band Glow in the Dark Flowers. She received her MFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the director of Rose Raft, an artist and musician’s residency founded in 2015 and Adjunct Professor of 3-Dimensional Design at Saint Louis Community College. In her most recent sculptural work, she fabricates steel armatures to prop up large curtain-like vivid membranes made from glue and food coloring.