Jessica Chickite

Jessica is a Lekwiltok native artist born in 1982 from the Cape Mudge Band (We Wai Kai). Jessica is the great granddaughter of the late hereditary chief Johnny Chickite, daughter of Max and Barbara Chickite. Jessica currently lives in Campbell River with her fiancé and two children. She has been known to follow in her father’s footsteps since the age of 9, when she won her first native art contest. Jessica utilizes many of the techniques taught by her father, but has grown to develop a unique style of her own. 

She uses paper, wood, canvas and deer hide drums as mediums for her art. She does a lot of mural work throughout the community, schools, and had the honor of being chosen to design and paint the front of house design on the mini big house at our local college. Jessica recently has started doing art full time, this has been her dream to be able to create art full time as a living. In 2023 Jessica started working on digital art and designing logos for local businesses. She also gets asked to work within the school district quite often, sharing her art and exposing the children to the First Nations culture. She feels this is very important to do, to keep the culture going for the next generations to come.