Jessica Posner
School of Art
Instructor, Studio Arts

Posner’s experimental performances, films, videos, sculptures, texts and social events intertwine and illuminate connections between theory, practice, formal technique and the social. Her work gently weaponizes the slippery, transformative poetics of femininity, queerness and joy towards an embodied personal, political, material and spiritual liberation.
Currently based in Syracuse, New York, Posner teaches courses in art and writing; organizes a bi-monthly inclusive women’s event at a queer bar; and curates the biannual FEELINGS: A Feminist Art Film and Video Festival. She is the founder of QUEERANTINE.NET, a weekly internet dance party that ran during March, April and May during the first several months of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Her work is performed and presented in museums, galleries, artist-run spaces, universities, fields, bars and online. She is a Reiki II practitioner and a certified 200-hour yoga teacher. See Posner's Instagram. Full CV.
Education
- M.F.A., Parsons The New School for Design
- B.S., Syracuse University
Expertise
Contemporary art, performance art, queer theory, queer art, feminism, video art, public programming and movement
Courses Taught
- Art, Activism, Modernity
- Sculptural & Time-Based Forms
- Art of Mindfulness
- Art of Activism
- Contextual Studies
- Atelier: Cassils
- Art and Activism
- Contextualizing Practice
- Studio Concepts
- Interconnected Studios
- Advanced Transmedia Studios