Jess T. Dugan

Jess T. Dugan

Jess T. Dugan is an artist whose work explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity, and community through photographic portraiture. Her work is regularly exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of several major museums. She is the recipient of a 2015 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and was selected by the White House as a 2015 Champion of Change. In her lecture, A Decade of Visual Activism, she spoke about the trajectory of her work over the past decade, her motivations for making photographs, and her experience as a working artist.