Jade E Welsh, a born Marylander turned transplanteno, is a trans-genre non-disciplinary artist and educator based in Los Angeles, California, the Americas, Earth. With a pedagogical background rooted in the theory of bell hooks and Eduard Lindemann and an artistic practice forged in the public school system and honed in the California Institute of the Arts Critical Studies department, Jade is a skilled writer, producer, and facilitator of group work, whether it’s in a high school English classroom or an interdisciplinary creator’s room in Hollywood.
Meet Jade.
After graduating from the University of Maryland with an English degree in Spring 2020, Jade shifted gears from their grand aspirations of breaking into the publishing industry and found work as a high school English teacher. For four years, Jade taught in the Howard County Public School System while writing their first novel. That novel, dubbed “Project Amethyst”, is yet unpublished, but got Jade into the California Institute of the Arts MFA program for Creative Writing.
In their first semester at CalArts (fall ‘25), Jade handwrote an intergenre collection of stories called “Container” that was acquired by fifth wheel press for publication in July 2027. In Los Angeles, Jade organizes the Left Blank performance series featuring contemporary Los Angeles artists and creative workshops that are free and open to the public.