Jazzee Rozier is an emerging artist raised and based in Cleveland, OH. Rozier spends a lot of their time researching and reiterating philosophical ideas on coping with emotions, relationships, and strong undertones of survival through the ‘American Dream’. They take a lot of inspiration from their surroundings and the people they interact with; taking walks, listening to music, and keeping an active sketchbook act as key components to this creative process. Considering a familial theme and broad ideas of individualism, tragic optimism, and documentation, Rozier implements printmaking, drawing, sewing, written poetry, and photography as chosen techniques to display this angst. As an artist who practices existing within communities and actively showing up for them, Rozier showcases a lot of their artworks within various art galleries, exhibitions, and even curating shows for the involvement of others.
Rozier has received awards such as the Helen Greene Perry Travel Scholarship (2025), Zygote PROOF Fellowship(2025), Creativity Works Award (2024) —where Jazzee exhibited their first solo show at Cleveland’s LGBT Center, Sing About Lesbians, I’m Dying of Thirst. Their work has been featured in various group exhibitions such as the 79thAnnual Student Independent Exhibition with the Cleveland Institute of Art, The Nature of Healing group exhibition with the Deep Roots Experience (ongoing), Ready, Set, Relay! a class collaboration with the Progressive Art Collection ,and Back in the Dayz, CIA’s annual black history month show for the Black Scholars and Artists club.