Jessica Swan (b. 1987, Chicago, IL); Has studied and worked with many mediums for almost three decades. She is a highly creative individual who considers every moment part of her work. She has studied fine art, art history, painting, drawing, ceramics, photography, interior design, website design and computer graphics at Waubonsie Valley HS (Aurora, IL), College of Dupage (Chicago, IL), Brooks College (Long Beach, CA), and Cuesta College (Morro Bay, CA). Jessica graduated Magna Cum Laude at Brooks College, Long Beach where she received a CIDA Accredited AS in Interior Design in 2008 and was nominated for valedictorian. She has been an entreprenuar and Jess-of-all-trades for over two decades using all of her creative talents & skills to create new ones for herself - thus intertwining all of the skills she's learned or currently learning and so forth, mastering many different arts forms.
Experience includes: Sustainable, high-end interior residential & commercial design and architecture, proficient in CAD for 18 years.
Sustainable Landscape Architecture, Organic Landscaping and Farming, Lighting Design, Tiny Home Design. Xero-scaping and Hooglukulture, Property Landscape Design
Website Design, Computer Arts & Graphic Design, Digital Photography (Primarily landscapes and nature subjects), Digital Imaging, Proficient in the use of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for 22 years on MAC & PC.
Fine art painting & drawing in a huge variety of mediums including: acrylic, watercolor, graphite, pen, pastel, paint pens, ceramics, sculpting & carving, multi-media, skateboard and surfboard hand-drawn graphics, etc.), Screen-printing design. Tie-dying, arts & crafts.
Creating whatever I can with whatever I've got...
ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS (out-of-date) Awarded “Excellence in AutoCAD”, emerge: Design Graduate Show in Los Angeles, Brooks College, 2008 Member, U.S. Green Building Council Nominated for Valedictorian, Brooks College, Class of 2008 Awarded “Best Presentation Skills and Best in Show” in Hospitality Studio, Capstone Course, Brooks College, 2007 Awarded “Best in Show for Outstanding Performance in Interior Design”, Winter Design Show, Brooks College, '07 Interior Design Department student representative for the Council of Interior Design Accreditation Member, Alpha Beta Gamma, International Business Honor Society, 2006 Dean’s List, all terms consecutively, GPA 3.5 or above Recommended Tutor for: Color Theory, Design Fundamentals, Drawing I, and Perspective Certificate of Merit - 2004 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for Excellence in Visual Arts Certificate of Nomination - 2004 Congressional Student Leadership Conference Exhibition Award in recognition for participation in 2004-05 Art Exhibit at the Norris Cultural Arts Gallery
* Most of the images in my portfolio were in a house fire, I have lost most of it. New art to be uploaded soon...
