• Mixed Media
    • Echoes of the Unmappable
    • Micropaintings
    • Passage/way/s
    • Openings
    • Lost and Found
    • It's about flight
    • Decoded-ed
    • Dysfluency
    • Altared Code
    • Circle Cycles
    • Intuitive Study on Paper
    • Dope and Different
  • Ritual Performance
    • A River Called Us
    • ReMemories of Blue Mash
    • Ode to Zipporah
    • Still
    • Movement Meditations
  • Social Practice
    • How We Be Free
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Jessica Valoris

artist + community facilitator
  • Mixed Media
    • Echoes of the Unmappable
    • Micropaintings
    • Passage/way/s
    • Openings
    • Lost and Found
    • It's about flight
    • Decoded-ed
    • Dysfluency
    • Altared Code
    • Circle Cycles
    • Intuitive Study on Paper
    • Dope and Different
  • Ritual Performance
    • A River Called Us
    • ReMemories of Blue Mash
    • Ode to Zipporah
    • Still
    • Movement Meditations
  • Social Practice
    • How We Be Free
    • Fugitive Sanctuaries DC
    • Black Fugitive Sukkah
    • Phone Home
    • xiggaProject
  • Sound Collage
    • Sonic SoulFood
  • About
  • Press
  • Contact
  • Store

Featured Writing

Spot In the Sun by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, 2023

The dancefloor is a fugitive sanctuary by Jessica Valoris, 2023

Press

Jenkins, Mark. “In the galleries: Immersive meditations on legacies of the enslaved.” Washington Post. February 24, 2023.

Coley, Shiloah. “Meet Inside Outside Upside Down Artist Jessica Valoris.” Experiment Station. September 13, 2021.

Dubofsky, Chanel. “Connecting Jewish Tradition with Black Fugitive Legacies.” Lilith Magazine. October 15, 2020.

Weiner, Yitzi. “Jessica Valoris: 5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I First Became An Artist.” Authority Magazine. March 8, 2023.

Herron, Carolivia. “Visual Artist on Black Fugitive Folklore.” Epic City Radio. October 4, 2021.

Hare, Travis. “Artist and Activist of the Week.” Gather DC. September 23, 2021.

Michael Loria. “Halcyon Arts Lab Fellows Provide a Different Antidote.” District Fray Magazine. May  28,  2021.

Video, Inverse Original. “Afrofuturism Is More Than Just ‘Black Sci Fi." It's a Nuanced Black Future.” Inverse, Inverse, 10 Mar. 2018.

Lombroso, Daniel. “Why Public Schools Should Reinvent Mentoring.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 13 Jan. 2016.

Artist Talks + Activations

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Passage/way/s at VisArts, 2023
Passage/way/s at VisArts, 2023
The Nicholson Project: Elevate, 2022
The Nicholson Project: Elevate, 2022
The Kreeger Museum, 2021
The Kreeger Museum, 2021
Washington Project for the Arts, 2021
Washington Project for the Arts, 2021
The Laboratory Series, 2021
The Laboratory Series, 2021
Halcyon Arts Lab, 2020
Halcyon Arts Lab, 2020