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Jess Weitz is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of photography, painting, found-object sculpture, writing, and ceramics from her home base in Marlboro, Vermont. Decades into her practice, she moves between these mediums with an inventive hand, what she calls "soft rebellion".

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Her work is grounded in Buddhist philosophy and a deep topophilia, a love of place that borders on devotion. Across bodies of work, she returns again and again to intimate ecology and embodied spirituality, asking what it means to be part of a landscape, and the equal presence of the unseen.

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From 2020 to 2025, that inquiry took a literal form: Jess foraged plants and soil from the land around her to hand-make earth pigments, turning ecological process itself into a kind of storytelling, poetic, patient, and inseparable from the ground it came from. In 2026, the work shifted register with Electric Menagerie, a series of vibrant acrylic paintings on unfinished wood panels depicting the fauna of the local land, raw material giving way to raw color. Underneath both is the same invitation back into the body, back into the land, and toward what usually goes unseen.

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Jess is also a writer. She's published three books of poetry, each paired with original artwork, and two multi-genre nonfiction titles, all through Ingram Press.

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Beyond the studio, she has helped direct multiple arts organizations and taught group workshops in process-oriented creativity and meditation, alongside one-on-one sessions that draw on art therapy modalities. She brings the same qualities to all of her life: deep listening, fierce compassion, warmth, humor, and an unshakable authenticity.

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