Jaq “Jingle” Masters

Jaq “Jingle” Masters is a black/mono-racial agender (they/them pronouns) American Negro with Caribbean ancestry currently residing in the Kensington section of North Philadelphia (PA) where they were born and raised. They’re a coordinator/organizer providing extensive community outreach, resource/tactical mobilization, advocacy, and fundraising experience to Black Queer and Trans people in their area. They are invested in the historical shaping of communal living practices, seeking to integrate this knowledge into their own direct-care work, focusing on the material needs of their community. Jingle has been creating since childhood, yet practicing visual art with particular intention for nearly a decade. They consider themselves to be an ever-emerging, experience-taught, multidisciplinary visual artist with concentration in printmaking, contemporary realism/surrealism portraiture using oil, acrylic and gouache paints and graphite on canvas or paper/digital mediums as well as skin art (tattoo). Continuing concentration in mural making and dabbler in jazzy drab word-smithing poetry, their moody style captures their personality and centers their faction.