Jolanta Lapiak is an Ameslan literary and media artist, narrator, and poet in video, performance art, photography, digital art and text. She is also a presenter and instructor.

Born and raised multiculturally, the nomad had lived in multiple cities in Canada and the U.S., Austria, and Poland. In addition, she often travels aboard. Jolanta has presented, exhibited, and performed nationally and internationally.

Besides being a native Signer since birth, her first fundamental language hypothetically was mathematics in her childhood before she received formal education through ASL/Ameslan and written English in her preteen. Her first childhood reading materials were mathematics workbooks; at age two, her father taught her how to read time with the red clock; she learned numbers and mathematics through playing deck cards, and so forth.

Jolanta received a MFA in Media Arts from NSCAD University, Halifax, N.S. in 2007, along with a BFA with Distinction in Media Arts & Digital Technologies from Alberta College of Art & Design (ACAD) in Calgary, 2005. She also earned a BA with Distinction from Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C.