Meet the Creator.

Jes Wen’de Waters, Phd, LCAC

I am an interdisciplinary media artist , singer songwriter of 30+ years and composer whose work bridges studio practice, digital and time-based media, public art, and therapeutic expressive arts. My practice is grounded in storytelling, cultural memory, and transpersonal inquiry, integrating sound, visual art, motion, and contemplative process. My work has been exhibited throughout North America, with audio and film projects receiving global radio, film licensing globally and is streamed on all major streaming outlets.

Alongside my studio practice, I serve as a teaching artist vocal alchemist leading praise, worship and devotions from the middle of America through online and selected in - person engagements. I lead

• Engaged Compassion Practice

• HeartMath Breathwork

• Women’s Song and Sacred Creative Circles

• Stitch Meditation Practice

• Musica Divina Practices within a Contemplative Prayer lens

• Labyrinth Day Events

• Spiritual Direction and Companioning Exploration Through the Arts

• Creative Prayer sessions, training and support

• Contemplative Creative Arts Practices infused with EcoSprituality

• Interfaith Arts and Devotional Ministry sessions and groups

• Archetype work

• Ceremonial blessings and prayer work

My credentials include:

• Phd, Transpersonal Counseling

• Ordination, Wisdom of the Heart Interfaith Church, Reverend.

• Centers For Spiritual Living, Circle Organizer, Practitioner Path

• Certificate in Theology and the Arts, Fuller Seminary

• Certificate of Chaplaincy, Life Pacific University (Four Square Gospel)

• Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist, Evergreen Certifications

• Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Arizona Trauma Institute

• Training in Contemplative Prayer and Christian Mystics, CAC, Santa Fe

• Certification in Curanderismo, University of New Mexico with multiyear mentoring

• Beloved Compassion Training (Church of Christ/UCC)

• HeartMath Certified Clinical Provider Training

• Community of Christ Seminary/Temple School for the Priesthood Path

• Certificate in Jungian Analysis, Zur Institute

• Certificates in various Sound Healing and Expressive Arts Therapies

• Certificate in Electronic Music Production and Voice, Berklee School of Music

• Graduate study in music technology, Southern Utah State

• Graduate study in digital and studio arts, Lindenwood University

• Certified Restorative Embodiment and Nature Based Expressive Arts Practitioner, TIExA Institute

• M.Div. Metaphysical Sciences, University of Metaphysical Sciences

• Master’s in Psychology, Regis University

• B.S. ED. Elementary Ed., minor in music, University of St. Mary

• A.A. Vocal Performance (included training at the UMKC Conservatory of Music)

My public art practice includes being selected as a Kansas City Parade of Hearts Selected Artist for both the 2024 and 2026 Parade of Hearts Public Sculpture Installation and Exhibit. I also create commissioned, culturally rooted works that engage transpersonal themes and therapeutic expressive arts methodologies, often developed in collaboration with individuals, communities, and organizations.

My life is my autobiography, documented in art, sound, image, fibers, film, book  and process.  Contemplation and observation have been fundamental parts of my life. Opening to transcendent spiritual connection in creative union with God, I compose/arrange music and song, author books and create interdisciplinary media works of art that express what I see in the world.  The cathartic process is healing, full of resilience development, complete with creative wellness within the arts in health framework-- but more.  It becomes, at a point in process, the deepest and purest connection with spirit, where I am guided by the Creator.   Music was my first love and my compositions that range from nearly two decades in ambient and new age sound and soundtrack, to now, embracing fully my singer songwriter self allow the the unique triune of visual art development, motion graphics turned into film shorts and accompanied by originally composed music.    This has been my trajectory, given a vision that had to wait for right time, right place, right tech, right learning, right action to make it's way into the world.   My work traverses faith systems and embraces spiritual expressions of energy, meditation and universal love, and focus on awareness, ancestry, healing and  teaching others how to see in spiderwebs-- that all things are connected-- even in the arts.

As a composer, songwriter, vocalist and recording artist, I have released a discography of over 30 albums since 2009. Selected compositions have been licensed for film, including The Cabin, featured at the Tribeca Film Festival, and my work has been released commercially throughout the globe.

Some of my small works can be seen at Creative Spark Gallery at Englewood Row in the Englewood Arts District in Independence, Missouri and have been shown throughout North America including Canyon Road in Santa Fe and the Laguna Arts District in California.

I enjoy living on the Kansas Prairie and communing with nature.