Ja'Hari Ortega - March 2023

Ja’Hari in the Pool Room Studio. Photo by Heather Henriksen.

Ja’Hari Ortega is a Boston-based artist and advocate interested in the idea of visual language vernaculars. She works in a variety of mediums but is primarily drawn to metal. Having attended Boston's only public high school for the visual and performing arts as well as the nation’s first and only public independent college of art and design, Ja’Hari has been inspired by her city and the people in it. She quickly became a leader in her community and has worked with several arts organizations and institutions on projects such as Boston’s Radical Imagination for Racial Justice Grant that invites Boston-based artists and creatives of color to imagine and co-create justice with their communities.

Protección, 2021

8.5 x 3.5 inch (h x w)

Bronze Sculpture