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Jas Parker is an emerging and conceptual artist, poet, and photographer. Working interdisciplinary in visual arts mainly acrylic, charcoal, mixed media, photography, performance/video, and creative writing. After becoming homeless in 2017 and losing her father to cancer in 2019. Jas decided to go back to college and start a business called: The Parker Art Collective in honor of her father Darren Parker who was a community leader and activist. With a mission to start a non-profit organization in the LA Area and beyond; to educate, advocate and create safe spaces for artists of all kinds to express themselves creatively. 

 

Jazz explores themes of race and gender, racial and social injustices, hip hop and black culture creatively advocating many social issues and the everyday “Black Experience” through visual art, poetry, and performance.

 

She was featured in New Voices Student Art Exhibition in Monterey Park 2019 at The Vincent Price Art Museum and participated in The Los Angeles County Arts Internship Program in 2019. She has exhibited her work at institutions such as California State University 2021 Spring Exhibition, The California Campus Compact Student Fellowship in 2020, the 2019 Day of The Ancestors: Festival of Masks at Leimert Park.

 

Parker has taken part in several public art workshops, artists panels, and murals projects in Los Angeles county. With hopes to inspires others to spread awareness about social issues, share their voices through creative practice and make art accessible to everyone.