About

Jessie Paige is a Denver-based artist, photographer, educator, and advocate whose work explores the emotional landscape of motherhood, memory, neurodiversity, and place. Her images, drawings, and installations reflect a deep attentiveness to everyday life—capturing the texture of caregiving, the ritual of repetition, and the blurred line between observation and participation.

Her creative practice is grounded in lived experience: raising two neurodivergent daughters, navigating systems of support, and seeking meaning in the quiet and complex moments that shape a life. Whether through Polaroids of road trips, pinhole landscapes made in grief, or small gestures repeated in drawings and domestic photographs, Jessie’s work holds space for what is often overlooked or misunderstood.

Jessie holds an MFA in Studio Arts/Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art & Design, where she received the Outstanding Achievement Award in Photography. She teaches photography at the University of Denver and recently completed the LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities) fellowship at the University of Colorado Anschutz. She is currently pursuing a graduate certificate in Policy Entrepreneurship and Advocacy at the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Public Affairs.

“My roles as artist, mother, and advocate are inseparable. My creative practice is shaped by my lived experience raising two neurodivergent daughters and advocating for inclusive policies that support families like mine. Whether through photography or policy, I work to hold space for complexity, care, and visibility.” ~ Jessie Paige