Jason Hess

American, b. 1968

Hess was born in Red Wing, Minnesota, in 1968. He studied at Beloit College, Wisconsin, and then specialized in ceramics at Utah State University, where he obtained a master’s degree in fine arts in 1996. Hess worked at McNeese State University as an assistant professor and is currently professor of art and head of the ceramics program at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. He obtained artist residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramics Arts, the Red Lodge Clay Center, Montana, and the Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China.