Artist Marketplace

Jessie Marie has worked extensively as a community organizer stemming from her experiences in life as a poet, visual artist (photography and painting) and as a musician focused on creating access and experiences with the arts & music communities and marginalized communities  throughout the greater Bay Area. Through her love of expressive art and music and its healing potential, she started doing live performance art in the San Francisco and the Berkeley music scene around 2005 and has collaborated and fostered creativity publicly ever since.  She founded Mic Drop! in 2021 and has curated this event into what it is today bringing in a fierce team of extraordinary Artists to run it alongside her over the years. She is a local avid photographer for many events and performers, as well as a an artist showing in galleries around the Bay Area over many years. Be it through creating brave spaces that encourage creativity and healing through all forms of expressions, or through her own creative endeavors in partnership with others, Jessie Marie has continuously poured into community as an essential part of her life balance.