Jessie Demers
Community Organizer, Curator and Arts Administrator
Country: Canada
Cohort: CCL Canada 2022
About
Jessie Demers is a community organizer, curator and arts administrator living on Lekwungen territory in Victoria BC. She has worked in the arts sector since 2006, including 5 years as Curator and Education Programmer at Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History, and 6 years as an Arts Programmer for the District of Saanich. She has been involved in environmental activism since she was teenager when participated in old growth logging blockades in Clayoquot Sound and Walbran Valley. Demers recently curated the Eden Grove Artist in Residence Program and the exhibition Still Standing: Ancient Forest Futures at UVic’s Legacy Gallery, featuring twelve artists including Kelly Richardson, Paul Walde and Carey Newman. Demers holds a BFA from NSCAD University and a BEd from UBC Vancouver.