Herb Jackson is the Douglas Houchens Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of Art Emeritus at Davidson College, where he retired from teaching in 2011.
11 Facts About Herb Jackson
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In 1999, Jackson was awarded the North Carolina Award, the highest civilian honor in the state, by Governor Jim Hunt of North Carolina.
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In 2015 Herb Jackson was awarded the North Caroliniana Society Award for extraordinary contributions to North Carolina's cultural heritage.
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Herb Jackson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina on August 18,1945.
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Herb Jackson received his undergraduate degree in German from Davidson College in 1967 and studied abroad at Philipps University in Marburg, Germany for a year.
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In 1969, while finishing up his graduate studies, Herb Jackson began teaching at Davidson.
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Herb Jackson has had more than 100 single-artist exhibitions in several countries, including England, Portugal, and Peru.
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Some of Herb Jackson's work was chosen to be included in the first exhibition of contemporary American art to be presented in the former USSR.
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Herb Jackson's work is in more than 80 collections including the British Museum in London and the Brooklyn Museum in New York City.
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Herb Jackson is most known for his paintings, both larger works on canvas and smaller on board, and for his oil crayon drawings on paper.
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Herb Jackson has done a number of prints using vitreography and digital media.