Jeff Kasper

Jeff Kasper is an artist, writer, and educator.

He works with the tools and techniques of design, contemplative practices, and community engagement, to create public art, publications, open editions, audio storytelling, workshops, and participatory learning projects. His studio and social practice center dialogical, reflective, and instructional experiences that prompt meditation, relationship building, and serious play. Based on his own lived experiences and observations, much of his recent projects explore topics of social support, safety, and proximity within the context of mental health, chronic illness, and disability.

His recent exhibitions, workshops, and public programs have been presented with New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, Meta Open Arts, Tufts University Art Galleries, CUE Art Foundation, moCa Cleveland, The Fralin Museum, and Queens Museum, among many others. He has received residencies, awards, and fellowships from New England Foundation for the Arts, National Art Strategies (NAS), Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, Assets for Artists, Art Beyond Sight, and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.

Kasper often sits on peer review boards for arts programs and retains an active consultancy practice for arts and culture sectors. He works on graphic design, strategic planning, and creating programs for outreach, disability advocacy, health and well-being, accessibility, and artist services. Recently, he was a Table of Voices member at Museum of Fine Arts Boston consulting with the Access and Inclusion Department on how to meaningfully engage disability culture and community throughout museum programs. Kasper is a committee member for Open Door Gallery at Worcester Art Museum, a gallery and studio that serves artists with disabilities, created in partnership with Open Door Arts. He is also Executive Board Member for More Art, a NYC-based public art non-profit, where he previously served as Director of Engagement.

Kasper is Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Department of Art.