Born in Detroit Michigan, Jacqueline’s studied painting and drawing at UCLA where she obtained her undergraduate degree. Graduate school led her to Paris, France, where she studied visual arts, art education and plastic arts, theory and aesthetics at the École Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts and the Sorbonne University. While there she participated in open studio sessions at the Académie de Port-Royal and exhibited at the Grand Palais and at the Galerie Louis Soulanges. After a successful career teaching art education and higher education administration she returned to her initial love, making art. She is now a full time artist living in Tucson, AZ.
Jacqueline’s accomplishments since becoming a full time artist are many; a Research and Professional Development Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, an artist residency at Hypatia-in-the-Woods in Shelton, WA, an artist fellowship-in-residence to the International Women’s Center in Santa Fe, NM, participation in many juried group competitions and exhibitions and publications about her artwork. These include the Cliente Magazine of the Arizona Daily Star newspaper, in the Sonoran Arts Network art review, the Tubac Gallery guide and Lovin Life After 50, The Dessert Leaf Magazine and Southwest Art Magazine.
