ARTS ADMINISTRATOR
EFFECTIVE COORDINATOR OF CREATIVE ENDEAVORS
Jessica Klinke is a collaborative team player with 10-years of non-profit experience as an arts administrator, bookkeeper, event coordinator, educator, folklorist and cultural historian. She is a strong communicator with the capacity to organize people and projects in a fun, high-energy environment. Highly motivated with great attention to detail, she has the ability to quickly assimilate information into achievable outcomes. As an articulate advocate for community-based initiatives, Jessica has the ability to synthesize multiple concepts into comprehensive materials for marketing, outreach, fundraising, and mission-driven work.
For the last three years, Jessica has managed accounting systems for non-profit and for-profit ventures. Most recently, she’s consulted with Voodoo Doughnut in Portland Oregon, providing support to the popular, local, iconic, and internationally renowned business. Prior to her work with Voodoo, Jessica developed and managed budgets for large-scale art installations and multi-faceted festivals. With the ability to assimilate the needs of a production into a successful accounting matrix, she applies an artist’s sensibility to the world of general ledgers.
As an ethnographer and cultural historian, she relishes in the exploration of expressive and artistic forms of communication distinct between diverse groups of people. She has proven hersel an effective liaison for artists and communities in the interpretation and distribution of their performance traditions to broad audiences. As a performer and artist in her own right, Jessica recognizes the intrinsic value brought to all members of a community who interact with the process and product of great art.
Most recently, Jessica serves as a leader of PDX Bridge Festival’s administrative and fundraising team, bringing her experience as a non-profit development professional and fiscal management to the newly formed organization. Prior to moving to Portland, she worked as a fundraiser for a long-standing and successful land trust, helping them complete a $200 million capital campaign. Since 2007, Jessica has partnered with Tucker Teutsch 3.0 on his projects, producing documentary material for the Tasseograph: Trash Tea Temple, and as the business and funds manager for Basura Sagrada. She developed and managed the $115,000 budget for Basura Sagrada, and played a large part in raising over $70,000 from individual and in-kind donations for the project. With graduate work in folklore and performance studies, Jessica is a successful arts advocate, cultural broker, educator, and ethnographer.
