Ja’Hari Ortega (she/her) is a multidisciplinary Boston-based artist, educator, and advocate who uses a vernacular language to capture the pulse of her city. Primarily drawn to metal sculpture, jewelry-making, and performance, Ortega attended Boston’s only public high school for the visual and performing arts, Boston Arts Academy, as well as the nation’s first and only public independent college of art and design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Ortega developed her practice through hands-on art education at Boston Arts Academy, Massachusetts College of Art and Design where she received her BFA, and North Bennet Street School in 2024 where she earned her diploma in jewelry-making and repair.
Ja’Hari Ortega (she/her) is a multidisciplinary Boston-based artist, educator, and advocate who uses a vernacular language to capture the pulse of her city. Primarily drawn to metal sculpture, jewelry-making, and performance, Ortega attended Boston’s only public high school for the visual and performing arts, Boston Arts Academy, as well as the nation’s first and only public independent college of art and design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Ortega developed her practice through hands-on art education at Boston Arts Academy, Massachusetts College of Art and Design where she received her BFA, and North Bennet Street School in 2024 where she earned her diploma in jewelry-making and repair.
Ortega finds joy in using her artistic practice to engage and support her community: as one example, she was a panelist for Radical Imagination for Racial Justice, an initiative which invites Boston-based artists and creatives of color to imagine and co-create justice with their communities. Ortega has held artist residencies at Surf Point in Maine (2023), the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida (2023), and Monson Arts in Maine (2024). She currently works as a Teaching Artist in Residency at the Boston Arts Academy and in the studio with artist Stephen Hamilton.
Ortega finds joy in using her artistic practice to engage and support her community: as one example, she was a panelist for Radical Imagination for Racial Justice, an initiative which invites Boston-based artists and creatives of color to imagine and co-create justice with their communities. Ortega has held artist residencies at Surf Point in Maine (2023), the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida (2023), and Monson Arts in Maine (2024). She currently works as a Teaching Artist in Residency at the Boston Arts Academy and in the studio with artist Stephen Hamilton.
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Monson Arts
Artist Residency
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2024
Monson Arts
Artist Residency
2024
Atlantic Center for the Arts
Artist Residency
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2023
Atlantic Center for the Arts
Artist Residency
2023
surf point
Artist Residency
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2023
surf point
Artist Residency
2023
surf point
Artist Residency
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