Jovan C. Speller is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and arts administrator with over 15 years of professional experience. Her work is centered around elevating, interpreting, and inventing narratives that explore ancestry, identity, and spatial memory. She holds a BFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago and is a recipient of a 2018 McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship, a 2018 Next Step Fund Grant, and 2016/2017 Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship.