Jayme McLellan is director and founder of Civilian Art Projects, a gallery based in Washington, DC representing and supporting emerging artists. In addition to running Civilian, she curates and organizes international exhibitions and teaches at the Corcoran College of Art & Design. Since 1996, she has organized and curated over 100 exhibitions and events to promote art, artists, and ideas of social importance.
In 2002, she co-founded the D.C. based visual arts organization Transformer and, prior to this, served as the Director of Development for the District of Columbia Arts Center (DCAC). While at DCAC she created The Tandem Project, an exchange program for artists from the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Most recently, McLellan served as assistant curator for the international traveling exhibition DARFUR/DARFUR, taking it to museums in Calgary, Canada and Ljubljana, Slovenia. She most recently curated an exhibition for the Soap Factory in Minneapolis of New Orleans-based artists.
She serves on the Executive Committee for the D.C. Chapter of ArtTable, a national professional women's leadership association in the arts. She also serves on the advisory council of Transformer and Artworks Projects, a new organization dedicated to using design and the arts to raise awareness of and educate the public about significant human rights and environmental issues.