Jamie Crooke Powell is an artist, educator and administrator based in Los Angeles county. She graduated from the Otis Public Practice MFA program in 2011, and is currently the Programs Manager at the Pasadena Educational Foundation where she manages district wide programs for thousand of students. She has nine years of experience working with nonprofits and arts education in varying capacities from artist to director. She enjoys working across disciplines both individually and collaboratively, and built her artistic and administrative practice from her work as a Teaching Artist.

Her art practice is comprised of project­based artworks utilizing a service­based model exploring the intersection of urban planning and public health. The artwork is often p​articipatory in nature, which utilizes performance, installation art, video, drawing, social sculpture and event planning as formats for her artwork. T​hroughout her projects and professional practice she aims to create moments of reflection using pedagogical models, poetics, and a public practice.

Jamie investigates the personal interior space of the body through vessels, health conditions, and access to health care. This is contrasted with the exterior public spaces representative of the collective, seen in urban planning, and through the complexities of economic models. Her artwork is often inspired by current research through other disciplines, with hopes of making visible that which is often unseen or unheard.

Jamie is a lifelong learner and health advocate, which informs her art practice.