

Learning to Draw from a Middle School Art Teacher's YouTube Tutorials
In these days of Zoom and gloom, online art classes are in high demand. Long before they became a necessity, Jescia Hopper, a middle...


YouTube Creator Award!
On January 1, 2020, my YouTube channel hit 100,000 subscribers! That level of support and enthusiasm for learning about art is unreal to...


Year In Review Skateboard Decks!
My painting “Year In Review” is gracing 100 skateboard decks at THIS Skate & Snow in Fargo! Here’s your chance to support local art AND...


Interactive "box fort" exhibit at Plains brings out the kid in all of us
Cardboard boxes have intrigued Jescia Hoffman Hopper since she was a kid. The Fargo artist remembers spending hours playing with boxes...


Jurassic Art
FARGO – As a 30-year-old professional, Jescia Hoffman Hopper knows she's too old to play dress-up and live in an imaginary world. So she...


Paracosms
Paracosm (n.): a detailed, prolonged imaginary world created by a child that includes human, animal or alien creations Spirit Room...


Jescia Hoffman Hopper's Paracosms Opens at Spirit Room
Dino-clad and smashing toy-size trains, Jescia paints self-portrait vignettes of paracosms- a fully-developed imaginary universe created...


Just a Dino Girl in an Apocalyptic World
High Plains Reader editor Sabrina Hornung had the exclusive opportunity to sit down with Jescia Hoffman Hopper at her home studio in...


Outstanding Master's Thesis Award
Jescia Hopper, a middle school art teacher at DGF schools recently finished her Master’s degree and Thesis from Maryland Institute...


Local art teacher creates street art, traditional paintings for Fargo Brewing Co.
FARGO — Deviating from her traditional watercolor media, Jescia Hoffman Hopper shakes two aerosol paint cans. The artist-teacher has been...