Jessica Manelis

Award winning photographer, Jessica Kimmel Manelis has been creating art since grade school. At age 11, she began taking art classes every Saturday afternoon. Throughout high school, she continued drawing and painting in a variety of mediums and ultimately settled at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, pursuing a career in the professional arts.

While at Moore, she received many accolades from her instructors and won competitions where her work was featured in magazines. Upon graduation, she settled in to a career as a graphic designer. Finding that creatively stunting, she set out to pursue her true creative passion.

Self-taught, Jessica fell in to photography as a means of generating reference photos for future art projects. However, she found the photo process was more fun. Embracing the medium, Jessica's work has been exhibited in several group shows in New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and most recently at the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and at the Naples Art Center. Her work has been described as "wonderful", "brilliant", "gorgeous color and detail", "great perspective".

Currently she lives with her husband, two kids and two dogs in southern New Jersey, where she continues to photog...

William Tennent High School

Moore College of Art and Design '90

Anne Marie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center Dowel, MD George Segal Gallery Montclair, NJ Fusion Art Online Gallery Best In Show Still Point Art Gallery Online Gallery New Hope Art League New Hope, PA Shirt Factory Gallery Glens Falls, NY 1650 Gallery Los Angeles, CA Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center at Cooper Hospital Camden, NJ Permanent Exhibit ...