Jessica has been teaching her practice over the past 10 years, with workshops that explore cultural identity, belonging and histories of oppression, having worked with such galleries and institutions such as the Tate (Workshop Artist in Residence 2019 - 2020), ICA, Watts Gallery, Camden Arts Centre and Wellcome Trust as well as creating teachable resources for young people to use. She is also an associate lecturer in Animation at Goldsmiths. Below are a sample of some of the type of learning experiences she has run over the past few years. Some of the images are slideshows, allowing you to see more of what the workshops entailed. 

Recent Workshops/Resources 
Utopia Portals @ Autograph ABP (2022)
Emotion Postcards @ Drawing Room (2020)


Previous Workshops

Across The Seas @ National Maritime Museum (2020)

Across the Seas was an intergenerational project that worked with elders from the Caribbean social forum and young people from Greenwich. Over the October 2020 half term, the young people interviewed the elders on their experience of coming to the UK - to share stories, learn about the past and seek out commonalities and differences across generations.

Jessica taught interviewing techniques as well as stop motion animation skills which they then used to animate their interviews.







GOLDSMITHS SUMMER SCHOOL, JULY 2018
For one week, Jessica taught 10 young people aged between 16-18 the basics of animation filmmaking, using their own hopes and dreams as a basis for their work. 
WELLCOME TRUST, JAN 2018
Using the Wellcome Collection’s exhibition as inspiration (Ayurvedic Man: Encounters With Indian Medicine), Jessica facilitated a drop in cut-out, pixilation and 2D animation workshops for 14-19 year olds. 





INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS, AUG 2017
In August 2017, Jessica ran an experimental animation workshop for young women of colour as part of the ICA's In Formation summer programme. The participants got to dip their toes into artists film, using cut-out collage animation. 
TATE LATES, APRIL 2017
In April 2017, Jessica ran a workshop at the Tate Modern for their Uniqlo Tate Lates.  Passerbys were encouraged to contribute towards making a Future City out of paper model-making techniques. What would a future city look like? Would it be sustainable? Completely nihilistic? 



EASTSIDE EDUCATIONAL TRUST
From 2014 - 2019 Jessica worked with the educational charity Eastside Educational Trust to provide animation workshops, mentoring and filmmaking advice to children and young adults.

Working across a variety of schools and youth clubs across London, some of the workshops and mentoring run from anything from an hour to a whole week and cover aspects such as introductions into stop-motion, storytelling, storyboarding and filmmaking advice.

DIGICULT 2015
In February 2015, Jessica ran several animation workshops for the Glasgow based film production company, DigiCult as part of their 2015 short film cinema tour which Fixing Luka was part of. Working in Orkney and Dumfries, Jessica taught basic animation workshops which introduced young people to the world of stop-motion animation
 

 
PAPER IN MOTION 2014
In September 2012, Jessica ran an animation workshop with 10 aspiring animators, at the Milano Film Festival, called 'Paper in Motion'. The workshop was in conjuction with Moleskine sketchbooks, who kindly facilitated the workshop by providing sketchbooks, storyboard books and pencils to help achieve our goal: to create a completed short film in 3 days (with sound and music), to screen at the festival's animation programme.

The film was created in an ‘exquisite corpse’ style; where the action of a scene leads on to the next, in a smooth and seamless way. Jessica oversaw (and lent a hand by animating the titles) the general ideas of the group, giving them tips and hints on their story ideas and animation styles. The result was the film ‘Fruit Salad’.






SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION OF MARINE SCIENCES, 2013
In May 2013, Jessica helped director Andy Crabb to create small animation workshops with 8 year olds from Benderloch Primary School, Oban, Scotland . The goal was to create animated segments for a film about protecting marine wildlife for the Scottish Association of Marine Sciences - whose headquarters were based near the school. The children made their own underwater props and were involved in the films as 'puppets' themselves, in a technique called 'pixilation'.


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