Jessie Turton

Jessie Turton works where earth, body, and justice meet — in the quiet places where pressure turns to form, where stories settle like sediment, where change begins long before it is visible. Her work, whether sculpted in clay, shaped through movement, or held in community, arises from the belief that revolution starts small: in the hands, in the breath, in the willingness to reshape what has been inherited.

Trained at Emory University, with emphasis on environmental issues and women’s studies, with further study in environmental management and policy, Jessie learned early to read landscapes — physical, cultural, and political. She is fluent in the language of layers: soil strata, power structures, and the accumulating histories that live beneath the surface. For more than fourteen years, she worked in environmental consulting on the fault lines of complex M&A transactions, translating risk, regulation, and impact into clarity. It was slow, strategic work — the kind of behind-the-scenes shifting that can redirect entire systems. A form of revolution in a suit.

Today, Jessie’s ceramic sculptures echo the landforms she once analyzed: erosion, fracture, slow accretion, sudden break. In her hands, clay becomes a record of pressure and release, a metaphor for resilience. The pieces hold memory the way geology does — not dramatically, but honestly. Layer by layer. She works toward forms that feel excavated as much as crafted, tracing the ways bodies and earth endure transformation.

A long-time yoga practitioner and RYT-200 instructor, Jessie brings somatic presence into her teaching and her making. She knows that the body keeps its own strata, its own seismic shifts, its own maps of rupture and repair. Her classes offer permission — to soften, to listen, to gather yourself again. This too is revolution: reclaiming rest and inner spaciousness in a culture that rewards depletion.

Jessie founded Two Pieces Collective as an offering to her community: a space where process matters more than polish, where art and movement are accessible to all, and where belonging is shaped, like clay, through gentle pressure and shared intention. It is her belief that creativity and connection are not luxuries but necessary forms of social change — everyday acts of quiet revolution that ripple outward.

She lives and works in Atlanta, shaping work that is grounded, patient, and alive to transformation. You can find her tending clay, teaching movement, or building community at jessieturton.com and @jessieturtonart.

Learn about Two Pieces Collective at twopiecescollective.com and @twopiecescollective. Good creates good.