Assistant Professor Jessica Barr
BA (Toronto), MA (McMaster), PhD (Queen's)
Coordinator, Bachelor of Arts & Science
jessicabarr@trentu.ca
Lady Eaton College
705-748-1011x. 7202
Jessica Barr (she/her) is an artist, educator, mother, and researcher whose arts-practice-based Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at Queen's University focused on ecological elegies. Her interdisciplinary practice incorporates artmaking and arts-science research-creation, investigating creative, collaborative, queer, embodied/somatic, and Indigenous-led approaches to environmental issues and social/ecological justice. She is cross appointed to Cultural Studies and the Honours Bachelor of Arts and Science Program, and approaches her teaching and supervision with creativity, enthusiasm, and attentiveness to care and wellbeing.
Jessica has exhibited artwork across Canada, and has attended trainings and artist residencies internationally. Jessica's 2013 Nuit Blanche (Toronto) installation project Indicator investigated the concept of indicator species and empire; the project was included in NOW Magazine's Critics' Picks as well as The Grid's "Nuit Blanche Animated"
(listen to Jessica's sound installation Indications). Vernal Pool: A Participatory Project about Place + Precipitation, a collaboration with artist Karen Abel, was the recipient of the 2014 Jury’s Choice Award and the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects/GROUND Award at the "Grow Op: Exploring Landscape and Place" exhibition at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto (more on this project, and listen to Jessica's sound installation Vernal Chorus).