About Low Season

Jessica is a documentation photographer and photo editor at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT. Jessica is a multimedia artist and her work centers around life, death, describing the ephemera of fleeting moments, memories and traditional women’s crafts, inspired by the overlap of form and function, making, and caring. Originally from Long Island, NY (b. 1976), Jessica earned her BA in sculpture from SUNY Cortland (1994) and an MFA from the University of Connecticut (2001). She is the Documentation Photographer at the Yale University Art Gallery where she has worked for the past 20 years, documenting all exhibitions, events, lectures and a wide variety of supportive PR media. At the Yale Art Gallery, Jessica has also worked closely with many artists to photograph their work including Matthew Barney, Carrie Mae Weems, William Kentridge and more. Jessica served on the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) Task Force which advised the strategic planning committee how to be a place where staff, students, faculty, and visitors of all identities, perspectives, and backgrounds are welcomed and respected. In addition to her museum work, Jessica has taught various art courses at colleges throughout CT. Jessica’s artwork has been shown at national venues including Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, Jennifer Terzian Gallery, Litchfield, CT, Artspace, New Haven, CT, The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, CT, The Hudson River Museum, NY, Lehman College, NY, the Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA, and the Stay Home Gallery in Tennessee.

Joseph is an internationally recognized artist and educator living and working in New Haven, CT. He earned his BFA from the University of Wisconsin (1999) and his MFA from the University of Connecticut, Storrs (2001). He is currently the Coordinator of Art in the Department of Art and Design at the University of New Haven and specializes in Drawing, Sculpture, 3D Modeling and Animation and Digital Fabrication. He co-directs the Makerspace at UNH and helped lead the design of the interdisciplinary space.His art practice focuses on the landscape and human impacts on the environment. His works has been shown in group exhibition venues that include Diverse Works, Houston, TX; MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; the McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH; the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. Solo exhibitions include Mixed Greens Gallery, NY; Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; and ArtSpace, New Haven, CT. His work has been discussed in Art in America, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and Art Papers, among other publications. He is a recipient of the Connecticut Commission of the Arts 2012 Artist Fellowship, the 2014 Menakka and Essel Bailey ’66 Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the College of the Environment at Wesleyan University and a 2012 Artist Resource Trust Grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.

Todd Jokl is the Dean of the College of Art and Design at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). The College of Art and Design and RIT represent one of the most dynamic models in higher education combining technology, the arts, and design (https://www.rit.edu/strategicplan/overview#technology-art-design). Before joining RIT in 2019, Dr. Jokl was the Campus Dean of Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts at the University of New Haven. Dr. Jokl was an Associate Professor of Art and Design as well as Chairperson of the Department of Art and Design at the University of New Haven (UNH).

He earned his BA from Yale University, majoring in Archaeological Studies and also studying Photography. Dr. Jokl worked in advertising and marketing in San Francisco on brands such as Sprint Telecommunications, Dell Computers, and Sun Microsystems. During late 1990’s, Dr. Jokl became acutely aware of technology and its impact on our lives. Dr. Jokl returned to Connecticut to work towards his MFA at the University of Connecticut where he graduated with a concentration in New Media and Photographic Studies.

Dr. Jokl earned his doctorate in Education Leadership from the Connecticut State University system at So. Connecticut State University focusing his research on retention and developmental competencies in higher education. He has exhibited his work and lectured internationally on topics of the evolution of perception and time in relation to arts and photography.

Dr. Jokl is active in the arts community where he serves on multiple boards and on the nominations committee for the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) and the Board of Directors for the Global Institute for Arts in Leadership.

Dr. Jokl now resides in Mendon, NY with his family, including his wife, Paige, twin children, Hazel and Samuel, and some dogs, a cat, chickens, 100,000 or so honey bees, and some goldfish…