Jessica grew up in the middle of cow country outside Kansas City, born with art and music epigenetics in her family lineage. Her love for art came when she was introduced to process and expressive artmaking. Born amidst a thunderstorm and delivered from her ancestors (Anishinaabw/Cherokee/Osage/German/Irish) through the Thunderbird, she derives her music composition and performing name from her Mayan birthday, White Magnetic Wind (Magnetic Wind).  In her timid youth, she could find expression without voice and hyperfocus on color and movement as "the paint has it's own mind.... it knows where it wants to go."  Through contemplative, deep connection, she  follows the direction of the inner workings of the messages that are delivered through the spirit world to her, often now consciously knowing what will be revealed, but simply, trusting the process as she explored, worked and lived in Denver and explored the Southwest.    Heavily inspired by the Sufi poet Rumi as well as sound healing, Bhakti, field recordings and experimentation with found sounds, she engages in a transcendent, channeling and intuitive process in creating her art. She is the 7th generation of fine artists who were illustrators and commercial artists as well as worked in fibers, ink and paint.  She became an art and music teacher, settling in to teach art for over 2 decades and pursing expressive art therapy, healing arts and transpersonal, creative expression education, ultimately becoming an addictions counselor, psychotherapist, workshop facilitator and alternative medicine practitioner working in expressive arts therapy.   Musically, she works in original composition created in stream of consciousness flow,  employs soft synths, melodies along with pianos, world percussion, luscious voice effects, field recordings, beats  and experimentation with organic instrumentation to create arrangements with a cinematic depth. She learned early that dreams were messages, nature and art/music making were spiritual practices and about flow state connection.    She has been featured on public, college and internet radio around the world since 2009.  She is currently working on installations of work that combines her original musical compositions, voice and spoken word, & poetry with her visual art that create holistic, transpersonal experiences for the viewer and expressive, conceptual mixed media fiber collage and sculptural projects.

Predominately taught by watching her mother and grandfather, she also has studied at the Kansas City Art Institute, Sophia University's Creative Expression post graduate program, pursued her MFA at Goddard College prior to moving into expressive arts therapy and eventually completing her PhD and numerous clinical treatment and coaching certifications.   She has academic work in the areas of addiction counseling, clinical trauma treatment, complicated grief, positive psychology, Christian mystics, yoga, sound healing and somatic embodiment. 

She's studied numerous expressive and formal art classes as a teacher of art in the public schools for 20 years and encouraged students to be confident in their intuition and express what they want and need to express instead of following the rules of elements and principles. She has numerous hours of art history and methods with individual artists and through museums around the country. She is also specializes in Therapeutic, Shamanic, Contemplative and Intuitive Art and is an Expressive Art Facilitator, Therapist and Coach with credentialing from Trauma Informed Practice Expressive Arts Institute, Cal State San Marcos Healing Through Art for Palliative Care, Heath in Arts certification, the University of Central Florida's Healing Through Art program and  has completed continuing education in art therapy and therapeutic arts.

She is the founder and owner of Mindful Creative Arts Institute and Jess Waters Art and Sound, specializing in intuitive, channeled art,  emphasizing breathwork, mindfulness and contemplative practice.  She is a metaphysician and spiritual counselor is a state and internationally credentialed addictions counselor and a registered psychotherapist in the state of Colorado.  She has extensive study in Integrated Medicine for Mental Health including from the University of Minnesota in Integrated Health and Wellness, the Andrew Weil Institute at the University of Arizona, the Mind Body Institute, the Center for Traditional Medicine as well as The University of New Mexico''s program in Curanderismo, which she is currently completing along with working with Grandmother Flor DeMayo.

She is trained in MBSR, Mindfulness Based Mind Fitness, MCBT, Primordial Sound Healing, Pranayama, various types of additional breathwork, and has undergone specific study with Tara Brach, Sean Fargo, the Chopra Center, and various yogi's.  She is a certified mindfulness teacher and certified mindfulness informed counselor and has used guided visualization, TM and Bhakti yoga, along with centering prayer which she learned from Fr. Richard Rohr for more than 30 years.  In her art making process she uses a stream of consciousness, flow state in order to channel messages that are revealed in her work and poetry.

Between 2009 and 2014 Jessica would release 23 digital and 8 print albums on various labels and through her own label Divine Alchemy and Magnetic 5280.  Other labels she has released from are Rain, Endless Ascent and Free Floating.   She is noted for being in the top 30 for various flavors of ambient and drone musical styles on SomaFM.  Select songs from her album Voices of My Ancestors, detailing the ancestral trek of her family lineage were licensed for the film short, The Cabin which  debuted at Tribeca and was released in France. 

During the Pandemic (2020-2023), Jessica completed more than 500 works of varying sizes documenting her personal journey with COVID and the social and political conflicts that arose during that time.  She also began to notice numerous images of spirits and shamans that "show up" in her work.  This inspired the title of her collection, "Voices from the Other Side", abstract landscapes and mixed media textile healing art pieces.   She created a powerful exhibit of digital work, created from her original paintings, celebrating the yoni and Sacred Feminine in her quest for healing from sexual abuse.   She is a 2024 selected artist for the Kansas City Parade of Hearts and has shown regionally since 2004.