About Me/CV

Jessie Jannuska is a Winnipeg-based interdisciplinary visual artist with mixed Dakota, Ojibway, and settler ancestry. Her family is from Canupawakpa Dakota First Nation. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with honors from Brandon University’s IshKaabatens Waasa Gaa Inaabateg Department of Visual Art in 2018. She primarily works in acrylic, watercolor, pencil crayon, brush marker, mixed media, beading, and murals. She has had eight solo exhibitions and has participated in over thirty group exhibitions. Her work can be found in the Provincial Art Collection of Manitoba. Jannuska teaches freelance art workshops in beading, dreamcatchers, painting (step-by-step), drawing, and sweetgrass baskets across Manitoba online and in person. Jannuska’s most prominent awards/grants are from the Manitoba Arts Council with the Arts Leader Grant in 2021, Indigenous 360-Learn Grant in 2019, the Arts Smarts II grant in 2018, and the Student Bursary Award in 2016.