Jessica Vellenga
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Jessica Vellenga’s artistic practice is grounded in craftivism, which combines art, craft, and activism, and community engagement. As the coordinator of the Yarn Bomb Yukon Collective, a fibre arts group that uses yarn bombing to create large-scale community-based art projects, her most recent project with the collective was coordinating Canada’s largest yarn bomb with the project Knitting for History: Yarn Bombing the DC-3 project. She has also explored several intimate issues in her previous large-scale community engagement work, such as personal diaries (Dear Diary), and what we choose to reveal in anonymity (Surface Tension, Emotional Baggage). She is an active member in the fibre arts community and facilitates embroidery, knitting, yarn bombing, and other interactive textile workshops. Her passion for fibre arts education and appreciation can be seen in her art practice, exhibitions, and organization of local craft nights. She has experienced a wide variety of art exhibits, conferences, workshops, and public lectures at modern and contemporary art spaces throughout Canada and Europe. She has exhibited her artwork and design in Canada (Whitehorse, Calgary, Hamilton, and Toronto) and the United Kingdom (Leeds). She currently resides in Whitehorse, Yukon.