Jessica McMann is an Alberta-based Cree multi-disciplinary artist. She interweaves land, Indigenous identity, history, and language throughout her dance and music creation/ performance practice. A classically-trained flutist, she holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Calgary and an MFA in Contemporary Arts from Simon Fraser University. Her work fuses together traditional language and dance with her own contemporary experiences as an Indigenous woman and Two-Spirit person with focus on land-based creation and ideas of connection, disconnection, and home.
In 2017 her Too Good; That MAY Be, an immersive soundscape performance, was shown at the Urban Shaman Gallery in Winnipeg as part of The 60’s Scoop; A Place Between. Her compositions include Muskwa’s Mountain Home (2021), Inni (2018) and soundscapes including Beguiling the Land (2020). Jessica is currently the City of Calgary’s Curator of Indigenous Art. She is also co-founder and co-director of Wild Mint Arts, an Indigenous arts company and is a Laureate of the Hnatyshyn Foundation REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards (2017). In 2021 she released her first Indigenous-Classical album Incandescent Tales, and is currently working on a second album to be released this year.