People have often described Jessica Hobbs as someone trying to lead a compulsively artistic life, which is more or less true.  She started off her adventure in a small Sierra Foothill town and eventually meandered her way to the San Francisco Bay Area.  Along the way Jess has worn many hats; running and creating community art programs, counseling teenagers, curating, exhibiting, designing, photographing and playing with some girls who love lipstick and accelerants. She is an MFA graduate from the San Francisco Art Institute and has been wandering and creating in the dust fest for well over a decade.  She believes collaboration is key in community and art. This idea formally began with her collaborative performance work at UCSC and has continued to be a core element in her artistic practice.  This core value can been seen in her collaborative project with Felecia Carlisle, Wedding Portraits created for SFAC’s Art On Market Street Program, in her work directing the Crucible Steel Gallery at CELLspace, in her creations as a Flaming Lotus Girl and in her work wrangling the Shipyard Labs.