Suzanne Jackson (artist)

**Suzanne Jackson** (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1944) nyɛla Americanima lihigu nucheeni baŋda, "poet", wa wara n-ti pahi shikuru baŋda. O tumanima nyɛla din be "museums and galleries" din be dunia zaa. Tum yuuni 1960s bahigu, Jackson nyɛla ŋun daa piligi nucheeni baŋsim tuma ŋɔ ka nyɛ ŋun lahi wuhiri niriba o tuma ŋɔ 

## Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru baŋsim
Jackson nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuuni 1944 tiŋ yuli booni Saint Louis, Missouri. O daŋ nyɛla ban daa labi San Francisco, California saha shɛli o ni daa nyɛ chira awɔi. Jackson nyɛla ŋun daa be San Francisco hali ni o yuma anii saha din daa niŋ ka o labi Fairbanks, Alaska bin din gbaai yuuni 1952 zaŋ hali ni yuuni 1961. O daa naai la Monroe Catholic High School yuuni 1961. O ni daa pori ka bɛ Alaska, o daa nyɛla ŋun daa be National Audubon Society ka di daa che ka o baŋ binshɛŋa o tuma ŋɔ ni ka daa na nyɛ zaɣ'poli . Ŋun daa nyɛ tuuli African American ŋun chaŋ *[[4-H|National 4-H]] Congress* din be Chicago yuuni 1960 ka dizuɣu daa che ka o nya sɔŋsim chaŋ collagɛ. 

Jackson nyɛla ŋun daa chaŋ San Francisco State University (SFSU) n-ti bɔhim "art and ballet" zaa ka daa deei BA degree in painting. O nyɛla ŋun daa tum San Francisco State University ni San Francisco Bay yaɣili nucheeni baŋdiba mini karimbanima kamani Charles White. Din daa niŋ ka o be SFSU, Jackson daa niŋ la e "campus art gallery" ka daa wuhi nucheeni baŋsim bɔhimbu yaɣili St. Stephen's Catholic School.

O nyɛla ŋun daa lahi nya MFA degree yuuni 1990 shikuru yuli booni School of Drama, Yale University.

### Theater and costume design
Jackson nima shɛŋa nyɛ din doli na ŋɔ:

*BLUES ROOM, Realto Theatre, National Black Arts Festival, Atlanta, Georgia ka di nyɛ din daa piligi Theatre of the First Amendment, George Mason University, Fairfax Virginia, 1997
*THE SNOW QUEEN, The John F. Kennedy Center, Scenic mini Costume design zaŋ n-ti touring company, 1996–98
*CHILDREN OF THE SUN, The John F. Kennedy Center, Costume design, 1996–98
*Scenographer at St. Mary's College of Maryland, (*[[Tartuffe]], [[Fefu and Her Friends|Fefu and Her friends]], [[The Physicists]], The Bigger Picture, [[Happy End (musical)|Happy End]], Etta Jenks, In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe) 1994-96*
* STAMPING, SHOUTING, AND SINGING HOME, Mark Taper Forum,1993
*BOSEMAN AND LENA at the Philadelphia Drama Guild 1990
*PERICLES and DAYLIGHT IN EXILE at Yale Repertory Theatre 1990
*ROSE OF THE RANCHO, El Teatro Campesino, 1989
*all costumes for Barbara Feldman & Dancers, 1988–96
* THE WINTER'S TALE and MACBETH at California Shakespeare Festival
*designs for Gus Solomons, Company Dance, Jennifer Muller/The Works

## Teaching
* 2014–2016, Adjunct Professor of Foundation Studies, Drawing, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
* 2013–2014, Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts, Sabbatical Replacement History I & II; African American Art History, Savannah State University, Savannah, Georgia
* 2009–2013, Adjunct Professor of Painting (eLearning), Graduate Studies, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
* 1996–2009, Professor of Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
* 1994–1996, Scenographer and assistant professor, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Maryland
* 1982–1985, Chair of the Fine and Performing Arts Department, the Elliott‑Pope Preparatory School, (bɛ daa na booni li la Desert Sun School), Idyllwild, California.
* 1972, Stanford University (summer), Stanford, California
* 1970, dance and crafts instructor, Watts Tower Art Center, Watts, California

## Exhibitions

## Further reading
* Bustion, Nathanial. *The Eternal Genetic Presence and the Creative Transformation.* CA: Aton Mattinnii Fine Arts Studio/ Asaraset Institute, 2015.
* Finch, Richard. *Marks from the Matrix: Normal Editions Workshop Collaborative Limited Edition Prints 1976-2006.* IL:Normal Editions Workshop, Illinois State University, 2007.
* Goode-Bryant, Linda, and Marcy S. Phillips, eds. *Contextures*. Exh. cat. New York: Just Above Midtown Gallery, 1978.
* Jackson, Suzanne. *Animal.* Los Angeles: Continuity Transcripts and Features, 1978.
* Jones, Kellie. *South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s.* Durham. North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2017.
* LeFalle-Collins, Lizzetta, and Cecil Fergerson. *19Sixties: A Cultural Awakening Re-evaluated, 1965–1975*. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: California Afro-American Museum Foundation, 1989.
* Lewis, Samella S. *Art: African American*, 161–62. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
* Peter, Carolyn, and Damon Willick. *Gallery 32 and Its Circle*. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Loyola Marymount University, 2009.
* Tate, Mae. "The Art of Suzanne Jackson." *Black Art Quarterly* 4, no. 3 (1982): 3–21.
* Widener, Daniel. *Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles*. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010.

## Kundivihira

## External links
* Official Site: http://www.suzannejackson.art
* Interview with Suzanne Jackson, 1980 July, from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
* Interview of Suzanne Jackson, 1992 August, from TEI Project, UCLA Library Oral Histories
* Video: Murs Murs by Agnès Varda
* Video: Netropolitan Interview