Jessica Kallista is an artist working in collage, video, sound, poetry, and performance. She is also an educator, curator, and activist. She received her MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in poetry from George Mason University in 2002. In November 2014 she founded Olly Olly, an alternative art space and resource, in Fairfax, Virginia. Jessica has taught analog collage at Corcoran School of the Arts & Design and poetry, critical theory, aesthetics, writing for artists, and analog collage at George Mason University.

Jessica is the 2022 recipient of George Mason University's Margaret C. Howell Outstanding Achievement Award. In 2023 she received George Mason University's Sojourner Truth Faculty Award which recognizes an instructional faculty member whose scholarship, teaching, and activism are at the intersections of race and gender.

Through an embodied knowing that is activated via connection to her child-self/higher-self, as well as her eco-cosmic collaborations with trees and the earth, Jessica seeks to question the nature of love and reality by creating situations of healing, community, bliss, pleasure, and play.

Jessica has exhibited work at a variety of venues including Tempus Projects, Galerie Kritiku Prague, Art Museum of the Americas, Rhizome, VisArts, Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, Watergate Gallery, Target Gallery, Otis Street Arts Project, Gillespie Gallery, Mason Exhibitions Arlington, The Torpedo Factory Art Center, The Fridge, Fenwick Gallery at George Mason University, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, and the Margaret W. and Joseph L. Fisher Art Gallery.