Jotina Ballard

Jotina is an artist at the PASC Detroit Studio. She makes both paintings and drawings. When working in both watercolor and colored pencil. She has a distinctive way of applying these mediums, by laying separate colors next to each other to create a thatched cross-hatching, like animal hair, with each strand a completely different color, giving her objects a furry rainbow quality. Her subjects range from religious iconography, to temples, to humans, to everyday objects.

Her artwork has been exhibited at Art Enables, Washington, DC, (2024); PASC Detroit Gallery, Detroit, MI (2024); annual exhibit in the Art Gallery at Westland City Hall, Westland, MI (2022/2024); PASC Southgate Gallery, Southgate, MI (2021); and the Scarab Club, Detroit, MI (2021).