Jessica Thompson has a BFA in Painting & Drawing from Pennsylvania State University, an MFA in Ceramics from Alfred University. She teaches at Mendocino College in coastal northern California. Jessica is a lifelong meditation and yoga practitioner, and tends to have curating projects and environmental activism going on the side. She is a mother of two little boys, and co-directs the Flynn Creek Pottery studio and artist residency with her husband, woodfire potter Nick Schwartz.