Jacob Yeates

Jacob Yeates (they/he) is an artist and educator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota since 2015. Holding an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and a BFA from the University of Iowa, Yeates serves as an Assistant Professor while also maintaining a freelance illustration and art education practice.

• Research Focus: Visual storytelling about structural violence, empire legacies, and systems of oppression through drawing series, comics, and illustrated essays.
• Key Collaborations: MPD150 police history project, Veterans for Peace interviews, Freedom and Captivity abolitionist zine.
• Artistic Method: Combines historical analysis with speculative fiction, often recontextualizing classical mythology or art history to critique contemporary political issues.
• Notable Grants: Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Support for Individuals (2022), Metropolitan Regional Arts Council funding, MPD150 collaboration support.
• Publications: Featured in Creative Quarterly, SI-LA, Cartoonists for Palestine, and The Matador Review.

Yeates' work interrogates intersections of institutional inequity, state violence, and personal complicity through experimental formats like accordion chapbooks, broadsheet comics, and exhibition-based narrative installations.