Jillian Hirsch
Assistant Lecturer
Jillian Hirsch is an artist and educator based in New York鈥檚 Capital Region. She received her BFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art and her MFA from the University of Tennessee. She is currently an Assistant Lecturer at 吃瓜网, where she teaches Drawing, and previously served as Director of Arts Education at the Arts Center of the Capital Region.
Her practice responds to human-caused environmental change, exploring the shifting boundaries between culture and ecology. Through ceramics, drawing, public art, and community collaboration, Hirsch highlights the resilience of weeds, the kinship of pests, and the layered beauty of damaged or novel ecosystems. Her work invites audiences to cultivate ecological literacy and reconsider their place within the 鈥渘atural鈥� world, seeking joy and hope for a multi-species future on a finite planet.
