Faculty Profile for Jessamyn Leigh Plotts

Biography Section

Biography and Education

Jessamyn Plotts is an artist living and working in San Marcos, TX. She is an adjunct lecturer at Texas State University. She received her BFA from Texas State University in 2015 and her MFA from Southern Methodist University in 2019.

Her work, a combination of painting, drawing, and performance, deals with boundaries. What makes us want to separate vision from the physical body? Why do we contain and define images the way we do? What happens when those kinds of boundaries are blurred? Jessamyn often compares images made from memory and imagination with those made from observation, sometimes combining remembered or imagined images with what she sees. Other times, mental images and observed images remain distinct.
Jessamyn has exhibited her work at artist run spaces throughout Texas. Her most recent show, a solo exhibition at Texas State University's Flex Space titled Cat's Cradle, dealt with images of the drug addict/beauty-fashion personality Cat Marnell made between 2012 and 2020.

Teaching Interests

Student-directed learning, discussion-based learning.

Research Interests

Activism in art, consciousness and affect in painting, drawing, and performance