Jesse Kline

Creative Consultant Jesse Kline works by day as the Executive Director of the Downtown Auburn BID, doing public art projects, event planning, communications & marketing, and curating art shows at downtown venues.

Jesse is a three-time NYS Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant Recipient. She was awarded funds to create painted murals & mosaics in downtown Auburn with other artists & community volunteers. Currently, she is Project Manager for BID’s Public Art Placemaking funded by the NYS Downtown Revitalization Initiative. Installs will include three sculptures, two murals and street pole panels on City streets, public parks, and exterior walls of private businesses.

Independently, Jesse has created and led Art for Auburn since 2010, completing 17+ projects including sculptures, painted, vinyl and croqueted murals, painted planters, mosaics and pedestrian & park signage.

Since 2004, Jesse has owned her own design business, completing residential and commercial projects including Prison City Pub & Brewery, Shepherds Brewing Co., The Sinclair of Skaneateles, and The Refinery at the Hilton Garden Inn, to name a few. Her colorful abode, humorously coined the “hotel no-tel,” was featured on an episode of HGTV’s Offbeat America.