instagram @bluelavaart Website www.bluelavaart.com Jessica Russo Scherr is an internationally exhibiting artist. She was the recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Grant for her work in art. Recent shows include "Layers" at The Creative Collective and "Dignity Through Art" at the Museo dell'Opera Del Duomo, in Florence, Italy. Jessica earned her BFA from Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, her Post BA teaching certification from Montclair State University and she attended the MFA program at William Paterson for 2 years and earned a 4.0 for her Masters of Arts in Art Education from Boston University. During 2007-2008 Jessica was granted the Fulbright Award for Bratislava, Slovak Republic. This award afforded her the opportunity to teach in the oldest art school in Europe. She made and taught art in Florence, Italy. For 9 years before recently moving to Germany. Jessica Russo Scherr's uses portraits and highly detailed designs, to give form to emotional experiences. The handling of her chosen media is often applied in overlapping and mirrored layers forming atmospheric portraits and landscapes that intentionally evoke sensations of memory recollection and internal evolution. Her artwork is about experience and the relationship between people. She uses portraits give form to emotional experiences. Her subjects are frequently depicted in solitary, social and spiritual situations. Jessica Russo Scherr explains how art is a tool to help us understand culture and ourselves within that culture. By using her artwork series of closed eyes, Jessica addresses how artists create works to process the world around them and how artistic forms of expression create a space for dialogue. By sharing artwork we can stimulate ideas which can create understanding and develop into action. The closed eyes series seeks to understand the balance we must create in our lives between the 24-hour new cycle and self-preservation. See her TEDx Talk for more information. https://youtu.be/ONeNMYDtcTA