Jazz Holmes is a Southern artist who creates drawings though a variety of media. She received her BFA from the University of West Florida, and her MFA from Colorado State University. She creates drawings though a variety of media. Her works are meant to offer discourse on consumerist society and its appetite for devouring Black culture. She uses depictions of staple foods from her Creole upbringing, hair culture, music and textiles to showcase the eternal connections she keeps to her ancestral home.