Jackie Laurita Cortese is a sculpture artist and designer living and working in Los Angeles. She earned a MFA from the ceramics program at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and her BFA in sculpture from Adelphi University in New York. She has exhibited her work with Steve Turner in Los Angeles, Louise Alexander in Porto Cervo, Italy, Now Space, Los Angeles, BBQLA, Los Angeles, AM Gallery, Los Angeles, Embassy, Los Angeles, The Bedfellows Club, Little Rock, Arkansas, Half Gallery, Los Angeles, and Brittany at OPaf 2021. She is Special Technical Faculty at California Institute of the Arts where she teaches courses in ceramic sculpture and glaze chemistry.