Jamie Iglehart Frasson

Lecturer of Media and Film Studies  

Office: Hoge 204
Email: jiglehartfra@skidmore.edu

Jaime Iglehart Frasson (Jaime Idea) is a multimedia artist exploring dreamscapes, community, healing, and the line between imagination and concrete world-building. She has worked within a variety of disciplines, including filmmaking, installation, expanded media, research and education. Her projects involve socially engaged ‘play,’ dystopian fantasy and highly personal iconography involving infantile regression, fertility worship, and revolutionary melodrama.

Jaime‘s practice started with film, branching out into installation, performance and social sculpture. Utopia School had been her most ambitious project, an effort at creating an alternate reality by seeking to reproduce the positive social constructs she has experienced, studied and documented.

Jaime opened the first Utopia School in New York City, October 2014 at Flux Factory. Following that she reproduced the model four more times in New York (January 2018), Copenhagen (August 2016, September 2016), and in Kingsbury (November 2021).