Jessica Gaynelle Moss

Artist Relations Director

Jmoss@sfai.org

Jessica Gaynelle Moss is an artist who supports other artists through her curatorial work, consultancy (including her current role at SFAI) and custodianship.

She has an extensive background in residency development, nonprofit leadership, program management, public art and community engagement with a diverse roster of institutions including The City of Pittsburgh, The Heinz Endowment, The National Trust for Historic Preservation, The National Museum of African American History and Culture and The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Art + Culture.

In addition to her role as the founding director of The Roll Up CLT, a neighborhood embedded artist residency program she launched in 2016, Jessica has collaborated with notable artists, contributing to social practice, public art and community engaged projects that center the interaction as art like Mel Chin’s Fundred Dollar Bill Project, Theaster Gates’ Black Artists Retreat and the Stony Island Arts Bank and Alisha B Wormsley’s Sibyls Shrine, an artist residency and network of 100+ Black artists who have m/othering practices, where she currently serves as the collective’s managing director and curator. Jessica is committed to developing innovative, ethical and responsible solutions to improve systemic conditions, provide access and advance the creative work of underserved, under-resourced and historically excluded artists.