Jessie Mordine Young (b. England, 1993) is a Brooklyn-based artist who researches, writes about, curates, makes and teaches textile art. She also makes large scale, abstract murals inspired by nature. She earned her BFA in Textiles and Textile History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and her MA in Material Culture, Design History and Object Study from the Bard Graduate Center in NYC. She is part-time faculty in the School of Constructed Environment and the MFA Textiles Program at Parsons School of Design.

Jessie grew up between the Bay Area, California and New Delhi, India, where she was introduced to various art and craft communities, many of which advocated for autonomy over their practice. Through extensively researching various craft histories , she has developed an appreciation for slow, thoughtful acts of making as an act of cultural autonomy and self-preservation.

Jessie believes that textiles can be carriers of empathy, memory, and lived experience and that they are evidence of humanity. This sentiment is at the root of her art practice. In one of her more recent bodies of work, she embarked on a project of creating daily artworks, which she calls “woven drawings” or “thread sketches.” These pieces directly connect to her experiences in nature, where color and texture become tangible references to memory. The small scale of these woven works offer a sense of intimacy through its reference to miniature Indian scene paintings and portraiture. Jessie is enamored by the alchemy of the dye vat, and paints her yarn and woven fabrics through a natural dye process, where she creates her own visual language with color by thoughtfully sourcing plant matter.