Jasper is Back On Main Street for First Thursday Fun! Join us from 6 - 8:30 pm in our old stomping ground at Tapp's! Come shop, have a drink and hang out with us during our first group show in the alley! The artists and Jasper Board members will be on site to chat about their work.
Meet the Artists:
Jackie Bobo is the vibrant force behind Bobo to the Max, an art practice and brand that creates emotionally immersive art and experiences inviting people to feel deeply, express fully, and
belong as their most vivid selves.
Informed by nearly a decade as a Speech-Language Pathologist—and more than three decades of living at the intersection of queerness, Blackness, and neurodivergence—Jackie approaches painting as its own language, one capable of holding nuance from the playful to the profound.
Through her signature Happy Spooky aesthetic—bright, bold colors paired with ghosts, spiders, and other whimsically macabre motifs—her work explores what it means to unmask, authentically connect, and belong. Each piece acts as a symbol of self-acceptance, affirming that belonging doesn’t mean blending in—it means revealing who you already are.
Bobo to the Max is built on invitation, not instruction—an open door to feel.
Michael J. Morris Zamora was born in Puerto Rico to a South Carolinian father and a Puerto Rican mother. Mostly self-taught, he began creating art at the age of ten, and by fourteen, was painting in oil and acrylic mediums with a tendency toward abstract expressionism.
Michael is a chemist, a film actor, a writer, a poet, and a drummer/musician. In 1972 he published some of his first poems and stories. In 1980 he published his poetry book, Telarañas (translated, Cobwebs).
He taught elementary art and later studied art at the San Juan Art Students League under the Artist Professors Rafael Rivera Ortiz (drawing and painting), and Hiram Rosado Poupart (ceramics).
Michael is a Certified Artisan in Puerto Rico, in wood carving and sculpting, harking back to childhood interests: iron sculpting, wood carving, miniature buildings installations, and jewelry-making from natural seeds and seashells.
Barry J. White is a Blythewood, SC-based self-taught multi-disciplinary artist whose works center the beauty, strength, and vulnerability of Black men. Guided by intuition, personal experience, and emotion, Barry’s paintings explore themes of identity and self-acceptance through expressive realism and atmospheric color.
Barry’s work has been featured in exhibitions For the People, Crowned by the Roots, Degenerate II, and Gemini Arts, Stormwater, Roc Bottom, and Drummond studios, where it’s been recognized for its depth, honesty, and visual storytelling.