Emancipation Week Lecture

Veronica Jackson is a multidisciplinary artist whose work critically examines the lives of Black women who mark space. Her background as an interpretive exhibit designer and architect form the foundation of her visual art practice and projects that tell stories using familiar objects and text.

Her lecture, "Don't Call Me Whoopi: My Art, My Agency," will be the keynote event of CSSR's commemoration of Emancipation Week, which honors the April 16, 1862, signing of the Emancipation Act.

About Veronica Jackson

Jackson holds an MA in Visual & Critical Studies from CCA, San Francisco and a BS in Architecture from UVA, Charlottesville. She has attended artist residencies at Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM; Ali Youssefi Project WAL/Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA; Women’s Studio Workshop, Kingston, NY; and the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA. Jackson has exhibited in group and solo shows including NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, NYC; Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA; FLOW Art Festival, Chroma Projects, McGuffey Art Center, Piedmont Virginia Community College, and UVA’s School of Architecture, all in Charlottesville, VA; The Arts Center in Orange, Orange, VA; Bower Center for the Arts, Bedford, VA; Riverviews Artspace and Daura Museum of Art at University of Lynchburg, both in Lynchburg, VA; InLight/1708 Gallery and Visual Arts Center of Richmond, both in Richmond, VA.

Her work lives in the collection of private individuals, as well as the Virginia Humanities, Charlottesville and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Jackson currently resides in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Central Virginia.