Jess E. DuBois

Jess DuBois is an American artist. He graduated from the inaugural class of The Art Institute of Colorado in 1957. DuBois after that traveled the country to study when several conventional artists including Ray Vanilla, David Lafel, and Daniel Greene.
As a Creole of Cherokee ancestry, Dubois is aflame about Indian art. He showcased it in his flourishing DuBois Gallery in Estes Park, Colorado until he was provoked to close following the town's devastating 1982 flood.

He when returned to his original Five Points neighborhood in Denver, Colorado where he cultivated the arts of glassblowing and sculpture, combining those skills behind his existing media.

Jess customary The Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1988 Denver Black Arts Festival, where he was lauded for his achievement to "Project the soul of his subjects onto canvas.”

The Denver-area Regional Transportation District commissioned him to cast a bronze statue of Denver's first African-American doctor, obstetrician Dr. Justina Ford, which was dedicated in 1998. It can be viewed at the 30th & Downing Light Rail Station in Denver.

DuBois was one of three artists who traditional the Denver Mayor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts in 2004.

Jess teaches children's art in a number of local settings, continues to accept art classes himself, and says his point in enthusiasm is “To gain better and better.”

DuBois was inducted into the Art Institute of Colorado Hall of Fame in 2004.