Jazmine Hayes is an interdisciplinary visual artist, musician and poet born and based in Brooklyn, New York. Through a research based lens, her practice explores histories of the African diaspora and the ways they are preserved and reproduced through cultural traditions. She is a 2023 U.S. Fulbright researcher, in which she traveled to Senegal, Africa to study weaving traditions and patterns as coded communication, protection and preservation of Black American, Afro-Caribbean & West African histories. For over 14 years, she has worked with community-based youth organizations across New York City as an educator and muralist with several renown non-profits and has been featured in Art Forum, Interview Magazine, Artnet, and several other publications.