Jade Jewett teaches courses in painting, drawing, figurative painting and drawing, and graduate studies at California State University, Fullerton. She received her MFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and her BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University. Prior to graduate school she worked in New Orleans for six years as a studio assistant for Ida Kohlmeyer and for two years as a printmaker at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC). She has shown her work nationally and internationally, and has received critical reviews in Art Papers, the New Art Examiner, Contemporanea International Art Magazine, and The New Orleans Art Review. She lives and works in Los Angeles.