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Jess Hobbs

Community Collaboration Creativity

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Community

Bring people together. Connecting through a sense of belonging and positive social engagement.

Collaboration

Bring visions and ideas to life with people and organizations. Working together to create the impossible.

Creativity

Developing new ideas and solutions through the process of design thinking and creative problem solving.

Who is Jess

Jess Hobbs is a Bay Area public artist, designer, and community builder who skillfully navigates the complex world of collaboration to produce projects of great scope, originality, and social importance.

Thoughts on Community, Collaboration, and Creativity

A Moment with a Beautiful Stranger

And Richard Long’s Autumn Circle Originaly posted on Medium August 20, 2021 Have you had moments with beautiful strangers that remain with you? My moment happened in 1995. The new Mario Botta-designed SFMOMA building had just opened. My friend Rob…

Flux’s New Piece Carousel to be Unveiled

Often when you are deep in the middle of building something you forget to take a moment to celebrate your accomplishments. This is sometimes the case at Flux Foundation. We are so busy building we forget to take a moment to celebrate.…

ALS, My Father, and the Ice Bucket Challenge

In order to write this I have to end my ALS silence. Most of you don’t know my father has ALS. He was diagnosed over a year ago. This disease is all too real for me, my family and my…

TESTIMONIALS

Jess is a sterling community builder, and I feel lucky to have worked with her. She has made demonstrable and quantifiable contributions to our business outcomes by rebuilding Vyond's user community from the ground up. When I reflect on our time working together, though, I most remember her sense of humanity. She's customer-centric, people-oriented, and generous of spirit.

Kevin Doherty

Marketing Leader & Storyteller

Jess is a remarkable person. Her vision and drive were crucial to founding the Flux Foundation. Her diverse skills were essential to its success. She is a talented manager who can motivate and lead with a smile, making impossible tasks possible. I will let others attest to her obvious artistic abilities and design thinking. Less obvious but equally impressive are her abilities to manage a large group of diverse colleagues towards a common, yet sometimes vaguely defined goal. It is her ability to inspire, to rally, and to persevere with a smile that is most valuable in tackling seemingly impossible tasks, which, with her leadership, become possible.

Peter Kimelman

Achitect + Artist

Jess is Amazing. She is a gardener of ideas. She is innovative and creative, and perhaps most importantly, she understands how to share ideaspace. Jess instinctively nurtures creativity. Her mind is like a steel trap, her skills are sharp, but her manner is always kind and gentle. She has the will and self control to walk the most terrifying gauntlet without flinching; and all the while she is dreaming up new worlds, planting seeds, pruning wild ideas, and always, always harvesting sweet fruit.

Susan Glover

Director of Manufacturing