Title: Archives Digitization Assistant
Pronouns: she/her
Email: jessica@grunt.ca
Ask them about: grunt Archives, digitization, CollectiveAccess, her dog Emmy and cat Hank

Name Pronunciation: Jess, rhymes with Stress. Fletch-er, rhymes with Sketcher

Biography

Jessica Fletcher, Archives Digitization Assistant, is a white settler of British and Black Sea German descent, born and raised on the traditional territory of the Ktunaxa, and currently living on the unceded territories of the Skwxwú7mesh, Xwməθkwəyə̓m, and Səlilwətaɬ. She works at grunt gallery digitizing documentation from the past 40+ years of the gallery’s programming and populating and maintaining the archival database. Her larger digitization projects have focused on grunt’s many performance art series, spanning from the early 1990s to the LIVE Biennial series in the mid-2000s. Jessica holds an Associate of Arts from Langara College, a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of British Columbia, and a Professional Specialization Certificate in Collections Management from the University of Victoria. When not a grunt, you can typically find her deep in a book, at a concert, on a mountain, or at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery where she also works as Exhibitions and Collections Assistant. Through digital databases, collections care, and exhibition installations, Jessica’s career focuses on assisting artists and communities in telling their stories and on audiences finding and accessing those stories.

Contact Information

Email: jessica@grunt.ca
Best way to contact Jessica: Email or visit the gallery on Wednesdays or Fridays

Visual Description

Jessica is 5’8” with long bleached hair and very pale skin. She typically wears black boots, large earrings, sunscreen year-round, and a bold lipstick, usually red.