EDUCATION
2021 Anna Leonowens Gallery Certificate in Gallery and Studio Management, NSCAD Extended Studies, Halifax, NS 2019 MFA Craft Media, Alberta University of the Arts (Formally ACAD), Calgary, AB 2013 BFA Fibre, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS
2024 Research Creation, Canada Council for the Arts 2023 Arts Abroad Grant, Canada Council for the Arts 2021 Arts Nova Scotia, Presentation Grant 2020 Canada Council for the Arts, Research Creation Grant 2018 Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship, AB
2018 Handweavers Guild of America Scholarship, Suwanee, GA 2018 Textile Society of America Symposium Registration Scholarship, Baltimore, MD 2018 First Year Graduate Student Materiality Residency Research Grant, AUArts, AB 2017 AUPE Scholarship, AUArts, Calgary, AB
2013 Toogood Maybe Scholarship, AUArts, Calgary, AB
SOLO + DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023 I Hope You Are Both Well, Mary E. Black Gallery, Halifax, NS 2022 I Hope You’re Both Well, Inverness Country Centre for the Arts, Inverness, NS 2021 I Hope You’re Both Well The Evergreen House, Dartmouth, NS 2019 The Very Texture of Memory Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, AB 2018 Without Markings Ewart-Duggan House, Medicine Hat, AB 2017 Not Your Rival Village Brewery, Calgary, AB 2015 Ultimately, We Lose Each Other To Something Marion Nicoll Gallery, AUArts, Calgary, AB 2015 Feme Sole The Untitled Arts Society +15 window, Arts Commons, Calgary, AB
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Verve Opening, Verve Craft Gallery, Halifax, NS 2024 Craft Atlantic Alliance booth, Collect Art Fair, London, UK 2024 2023 Nova Scotia Art Bank Purchase Exhibition, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS 2024 Cultivated Threads, Artsplace, Annapolis Royal, NS 2023 Till the Tide, Nocturne: Art at Night, Queens Marque Halifax, NS 2023 Sustainability Through Craft, Mary E. Black Gallery, Halifax, NS 2023 Collective Directions, Chester Art Center, Chester, NS 2022 From the Start, The Craig Gallery, Dartmouth, NS 2022 Revising History, The Ice House Gallery, Tatamagouche, NS 2021 Measures of Absences Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Inverness, NS 2020 Craft Year 2020 Mary E. Black Gallery, Halifax, NS 2019 HAND PIC’D 2019 Alberta Craft Feature Gallery, Edmonton, AB 2019 COMING UP NEXT Alberta Craft Feature Gallery, Edmonton, AB + Alberta Craft Gallery, Calgary, AB 2019 THIS WOMEN’S WORK Loft 112, Calgary, AB 2019 PORTRAITS Alberta Craft Feature Gallery, Edmonton, AB + Alberta Craft Gallery, Calgary, AB 2018 VIVA- Equinox Vigil Jarvis Hall Gallery, Calgary, AB 2018 Home Studio 371 AUArts, Calgary, AB 2017 Equinox Vigil festival Union Cemetery, Calgary, AB 2017 Echolalias Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB
ARTIST RESIDENCY & SELECTED ARTIST TALKS
2024 Union House Arts Residency, Self-directed Residency at Union House Arts, NL 2021 Craft LAIR Residency, Self-directed Residency at Centre for Craft Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS 2020 airCRAFT Emerging Artist Residency, Centre of Craft Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS 2019 Visiting Artist Residency, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB 2018 Ewart-Duggan House Residency, Esplanade Museum, Medicine Hat, AB
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS
2024 ‘Till the Tide: affective movement in site-specific installation.’ Presented at Shifts and Strands Textile Society of America Symposium 2024 ‘Collect Artist Talk.’ Presented at Collect Open 2024 in Craft Atlantic Alliance booth, London, UK 2023 ‘Tactile Literacy: How the Present Rearranges the Past.’ Presented at Praxis and Practice Digital Weaving Conference, Cleveland, Ohio. 2023 ‘I Hope You Are Both Well Artist Talk.’ Presented at the Centre for Craft Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS. 2022 ‘From the Start Artist Talk.’ Presented at Craig Gallery, Dartmouth, NS 2019 ‘The Very Texture of Memory: A Woven Archive.’ Presented at Ecole De Printemps Site Of Photographic Knowledge: Archives and Narratives Symposium, Montreal, QC 2018 ‘How Little One Knows Someone.’ Presented at MFA Student Conference Symposium, U of C, Calgary, ABBIBLiOGRAPHY 2017 In Conversation: Jessie Fraser, Becca Taylor, Anna SEmenoff, Artist Talk Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB
PUBLICATION
Joanne Hamel. “PORTRAITS,” Alberta Craft Culture in the Making, Jan- April 2019, pp. 10.
Fauntleroy, Gussie. “The HGA and Dendel Scholarship Recipient for 2018,” Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot. Vol. 4, Winter 2018, pp. 33-34. Mullally, Carley. “Jessie Fraser’s I Hope You Are Both Well,” Visual Arts New, Summer 2023, pp.14 18. Ryan, Delaney. “Weaving history and Memory: Jessie Fraser’s I hope you are both well,” Billie Visual Culture Atlantic, https://billiemag.ca/weaving-history-and-memory-jessie-frasers-i-hope-you-are-both-well/. Accessed February 28 2023