![]() ![]() Insect Reverie, in collaboration with NEO Students for Mural Fest 66. 2019Ħ6 Cultural District, in collaboration with NEO Students for Mural Fest 66. Route 66 in Miami, OK, with Norseman and Wardog. Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College Centennial Mural, for Mural Fest 66. Predator with Mario and Luigi Caught in the Middle. ![]() Corrugated metal storage container in White Oak, OK. 2020.ġ50 Wall Painting for the Sesquicentennial Pop-Up Museum. H&R Block Building, Site of Former Cobb Hotel. Historic Vinita Mural for the Sesquicentennial. Depictions of historic schools painted on a 1967 concrete monument, the focal point of a new park in Vinita, OK. Exterior latex paint on brick wall, beginning 8’ above the ground. Mural on the 1937 Route 66 Alignment SW of Miami, OK. Seasonally updated three times in 2021 and twice in 2022. Shop Window Paintings for Sunkissed Floral. Lettering on commercial building, covering an area 25’x24’, beginning 12’ above the ground. Lettering on commercial building, 4 columns, each approximately 1.25’x12’. Meemhkwihkicia (red-tailed hawk), Miami Mural Fest 66. B.A., Studio Art with minors in Art History and Biology, 1987. Leadership Arts Oklahoma, Oklahoma Arts Council. She also continues to explore new visual expressions in her home studio, which overlooks a wooded stream winding across the prairie. Jessica S Stout enjoys creating custom art, working with clients to combine their goals with her vision. Today, she balances art making and teaching online art appreciation courses for NEO A&M College. Seeking time to create more art, she requested adjunct status in 2018, then stepped away from teaching in 2020 to fully focus on creative work. She did this full-time, while also producing several realistic indoor and outdoor custom murals. In 2010, Jessica was hired to teach studio art and art appreciation at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College. She served on several arts-related boards, taught summer art classes, assisted with children’s acting workshops, and gained large-scale work experience by painting sets for community theatre productions. While her children grew, she produced commissioned paintings, but donated most of her work to local organizations at fundraising events. Jessica S Stout has spent most of her adult life in northeast Oklahoma in a country home of her own design with a big family and numerous animals. This, and a growing interest in modern art, no doubt influenced Stout’s graduate work at Morehead State University, where she explored more expressive compositions and techniques in printmaking, drawing, and oil painting. She particularly admired the ability of Chase and Sargent to attain realistic immediacy with surprisingly loose brushwork. Wyeth, Jessie Willcox Smith, William Merritt Chase, and John Singer Sargent. She admired and studied 19th and early 20th century American illustrators and painters N. Jessica continued these interests in her undergraduate work at the College of Wooster, where she majored in studio art and minored in art history and biology. She created 4H project displays for the annual county fair, translating newly acquired knowledge into visually engaging presentations. She enjoyed the agricultural lifestyle, regional architecture, and local history, themes that appeared in early drawings and that continue today in her landscapes, animal portraits, and custom murals.įrom an early age, Jessica was intrigued by vintage illustrated children’s books and wildlife field guides. Jessica S Stout grew up in rural Ohio, where she developed an affinity for forest, field, and the creatures therein. In the studio, I work in oils, pen and ink, colored ink washes, colored pencils, and graphite.īetween commissions, I explore new visual expressions of the intersection of nature and humanity and what it is to be living on this earth.Ĭoleman Theatre with Picher Mines Poisoning the Land. I’ve painted murals on splintered wood paneling, brick and cement block walls, dented vinyl siding, textured stucco, theatre sets, clear acrylic panels, windows, and a corrugated shipping container. My art is realistic and detailed, yet my favorite parts of each piece are often the abstract bits of shadow and background, sometimes imbued with symbolism. ![]() The artist-client conversation continues throughout the project as I collect their ideas, formulate mine, and use my vision to make something beautiful for them. I research facts and find reference images online, at libraries and museums, and at physical sites. I truly enjoy such custom work, mindful of the client’s wishes and, in the case of a public mural, their hopes for the community’s experience of it. My recent pieces were commissioned by clients seeking specific content and purpose in the art. I express this through landscapes, animal portraits, and murals that record things of both nature and humankind. I’m intrigued by the natural world and human culture and how they can clash, intersect, and intertwine. ![]()
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