Jade Barnes

Title & Affiliation
Undergraduate Administrative Fellow

Education

  • BFA, University of Iowa, May 2022
Bio

Jade (she/her/hers) is a fourth-year undergraduate student pursuing a BFA in painting with certificates in Entrepreneurial Management and Public Digital Arts with a visual-storytelling track. As an artist, she focuses on transmitting emotions through animations and illustrations - especially for children. She hopes to bring new, diverse, and untold stories to kids. She currently works at Grasshorse studios where she has worked on numerous projects such as "Slow Down", a music video for Colbie Caillat and her band, and Iowa State University's commercial, "The World Turns". To Jade, art is a universal language we must all learn to speak.

Research Interests

  • Comic studies
  • Entertainment
  • Human experience
  • Human-centered design
  • Influence of cartoons on children's socialization and overall development
  • Social-impact design