Jamie Curtismith is a gregarious loner, contemporary mixed media artist, lifelong journaler, dabbler in creative non-fiction, grappler of poetic short forms, and scrapbooker of beingness. Working in many mediums, Jamie weaves together words and im­ages to explore complex interpersonal experiences and current universal issues. She descends from a long line of working-class Pacific Northwest (PNW) creatives and builds on their intergen­erational stories to craft her unique style of ProvoProp Art (Provocative Propoganda). Her work is multi-faceted, multidimensional, and interdisciplinary, and can be viewed from many perspectives. Using upcycled canvas, textile, and paper materials from her former works and scavenged resources from the SWARM, she diligently stitches together the past with the present to make way for the future. Her original works infuse traditional art and craft techniques in non-traditional ways. Although an ardent PNW local, she is often referred to as an ‘Outsider’. Jamie does not fit traditional, normative genres as she continually pushes the boundaries of what it means to be an artist creating art. Jamie calls her act of arting ‘The Complexification of Mixed-Media Surface Design”. Her original works are multifarious but her aesthetic can be simplified and customized commercially to any application. Her style is very much inspired by Brute Art because it embraces the rawness of urban street art and draws on the influences she is surrounded by; Pop Culture, Craft Markets, Feminism, Graffiti, Coastal Salish Design, PNW Architecture, and Nature.

Jamie also happens to be an Engineer with an MBA. She’s worked as an engineer at Boeing, a stockbroker on Wall Street, owned and operated several of her own businesses, taught college level business classes, di­rected the SBAs NW Women’s Business Center, served time in the cannabis industry, and remains passionate about decriminalizing mushrooms. She lives with her artistically endowed mother, creatively brilliant teenage children, and two studio cats in Everett, Washington.