Jessica Susan Oler is an African American artist-scholar. She holds a Master of Fine Arts. She is currently a PhD student in the Gender Studies Program at Queen’s University. Her creative research rigorously explores Hortense Spillers theorizing of unprotected female flesh. The figurative and the abstract continue to hold up her praxis. Oler has been invited to do projects with Harvard School of Medicine, the National MS Society, and Momentum Magazine. Her work has been shown at California College of the Arts, Lewis-Clark State College Center for Arts and History; Chautauqua, Rochester, and Brooklyn, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Miami, Florida; Lawrenceville and Atlanta, Georgia; Alameda, Oakland, and San Francisco, California; and Alexandria, New South Wales, Australia.