Jamie Lou Thome

Jamie Lou Thome received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago. She spent a year in the mentorship program for emerging women artists at Artemisia Gallery in Chicago. Her visual arts work has been shown all over the place; she works primarily with books, collages, installations, and layering oil pastels on top of things. Thome was a founding member of the now-defunct Vespine Gallery in Pilsen. She is a founding board member of Artists Book House and has produced multiple virtual events and programs since the beginning of COVID for ABH.

As a Master Teaching Artist for Opportunities for All, Jamie Thome presents professional development for teachers to integrate the arts into the classroom curriculum. She also works at the Evanston Public Library as a teaching artist in the Loft (teen space), and a library assistant wherever she is needed. In her spare time, she coaches beginning and experienced runners to complete marathons and half marathons, reads as many books as possible, and loves to hang out with her husband Doug and her son Oliver Bean and their dogs, Rosie and Phoebe.