Jess Zeglin is a mixed media, installation, and textile artist concerned with transformation and continuation in times of calamitous change. Her work is process-based in nature, incorporating listening, gathering, and research practices. Gathered inputs are remixed and layered into emergent artworks which acknowledge the influence of object- and place-specific histories, mistakes, erasures, and incidental connections. Repetition is an essential element in the work, where repeated gestures, lines, stitches, and sounds create a contemplative experience for artist and viewer/participant alike.

These artworks serve as invitations for engagement, self-reflection, and continuous change, eschewing art historical concepts of final or ideal forms. Relationships with land, climate, plants, ecology, and long cycles of geologic, personal, and cultural change are paramount to her work.

Zeglin holds a studio practice based between Albuquerque, New Mexico on Ancestral Tiwa land, and the Driftless area of Western Wisconsin on Očhéthi Šakówiŋ and Sac & Fox Nation land where her family maintains a sheep and cattle farm.