My Life in Art: C. Jackson, L. Addison, C. DeJong, L. Lumpkin, and M. Wilson-Powell

• published: 25 Feb 2015
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"My Life in Art: Charlotte Jackson, Laura Addison, Constance DeJong, Libby Lumpkin and MaLin Wilson-Powell" Five talented women discuss their lives in art, and how being a woman affected them in their professional and personal life. Charlotte Jackson has devoted her entire career to art. She is renowned as the Director of the eponymous gallery, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, which she founded in 1989 after gaining significant experience in the museum and gallery world. Ms. Jackson is President of London International LLC (founded in 1999), which has produced ART Santa Fe since acquiring the fair in 1999. She is a Trustee of Art Santa Fe Presents, Inc., a not-for-profit arts-education organization that she founded in 2003. Laura Addison is the curator of North American and European folk art at the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe. Her current curatorial projects and areas of research are tramp art, folk art from the American South, and the work of "outsider" and self-taught artists. Constance DeJong has been exhibiting extensively for the past 35 years in numerous galleries and museums with a retrospective at the Albuquerque Museum in 2003. Her work has appeared in numerous national and international publications including a comprehensive monograph, which was published by UNM Press. Libby Lumpkin is Professor of Art and Art History at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. She writes on contemporary art, design, and architecture. Her books include Deep Design: Nine Little Art Histories, and exhibition catalogues on Jean-Michel Basquiat, Victoria Gitman, and Paul Morrison, among others. MaLin Wilson-Powell is an art writer, curator, editor, and lecturer who has been active in the art world since 1972, and whose career has alternated between independent projects and curatorial work. Her appointments have included Curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe; assistant to Beaumont Newhall; and, Director, Jonson Gallery of the University of New Mexico Art Museum. Presented by Art Santa Fe Presents and the New Mexico State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts as part of The Artful Afternoon Series 2015.