The Life and Art of Jay Steensma Jay Steensma was an American painter born in Moscow, United States. After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1962, he studied with Morris Graves and befriended artists such as Mark Tobey and Guy Anderson. His career included a brief period working at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City before he returned to Seattle in 1965, where he taught at the Cornish College of the Arts. Steensma w…