JESSICA WASCAK

Jessica Wascak earned her BFA in Photography from Bowling Green State University in 2000 and completed her MFA in Digital Art at BGSU in 2003, including advanced studies through the SACI Graduate Program in Florence, Italy.

Jessica, who often describes herself as “the most analog digital artist you will ever meet,” bridges traditional and digital techniques in unexpected ways. She begins on foot with her camera capturing fragments, then sketches compositions in pen, graphite, oil pastel, and colored pencil before moving to the screen, where images are layered, erased, and blended entirely by hand—without the use of AI. Over the years, she has also pioneered a distinctive transfer process in which archival inks are lifted from printed surfaces, encapsulated in a translucent medium, and reimagined on wood panels.

Jessica earned her BFA in Photography from Bowling Green State University in 2000 and completed her MFA in Digital Art at BGSU in 2003, including advanced studies through the SACI Graduate Program in Florence, Italy.

Her work has been commissioned and collected by organizations including prestigious Tucson, Arizona galleries, contributions to the SIGGRAPH (global association for computer graphics and interactive techniques), the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority, and Southwest General. Jessica was featured in the Digital Art Revolution: Creating Fine Art in Photoshop (2009) and Art Digital Online Magazine in the article Digital Permutations (2010).

Through her hybrid practice—equal parts analog and digital—Jessica continues to expand the possibilities of photography, digital media, and material experimentation in contemporary art.