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JILL SLOSBURG-ACKERMAN

Jsackerman44@comcast.net  617-694-4410  jillslosburg-ackerman.com  #jillsees

I was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and inspired by the pragmatism of the Pioneers who settled the Great Plains.  My training as a jeweler and a sculptor accounts for my joint interests in the applied and fine arts. I have been equally influenced by JD Prown’s material culture studies, the ambitions of the Bauhaus, and the work of the artist Constantin Brancusi. 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012-13  In Rome: The Pine Grove. And. Natura naturans; natura naturata.  Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA organized by Susan Stoops

2011     minus + plus, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, N. Andover, MA, curated by David Raymond

2004    Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston

1999    Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art

           University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, curated by Lasse Antonsen

1996    Lee Gallery, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

1995    Manwaring Gallery, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT

           Genovese Gallery, Boston

1985    Body Sculpture, Boston

1982    Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston  

           Cohen Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA

1980    Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston

           Harcus-Krakow-Rosen-Sonnabend Gallery, Boston

1978    Harcus-Krakow-Rosen-Sonnabend Gallery

1972      Concord Art Association, Concord, MA

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2025    Somatic Seeing, with Josephine Burr.  curated by Deborah Davidson & Audrey Goldstein, Suffolk University,, Boston 

2020    Accompanied, with Marilyn Pappas, organized by Meg Rotzel, Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, MA  (catalogue)

2009    ART + HISTORY with Carla Herrera-Prats, John Nicholas Brown House, Brown University, Providence, RI curated by Rosie Branson-Gill and Meg Rotzel

GRANTS & AWARDS

2022    Artist in Residence, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA

2020    Open Studio Residency, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

2009    Faculty Development grant MassArt Foundation

2007    Artist’s Grant, Anonymous Was a Woman

2006    Artist Grant, Drawing/Printmaking/Artist Books, Massachusetts Cultural Council

            Best Gallery Show of a Mid-Career Artist (Judy Goldman Gallery), New England Art Critics

2004    2nd Place, Best Group Show in an Institutional/University Gallery (Call & Response, curated

by Barbara O’Brien), New England Art Critics Association

2001   Berkshire Taconic Trust Artists Grant

1999   Fellowship for Sculpture, Massachusetts Cultural Council

1998   Traveling Scholar’s Award, School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

           Fellowship for Works on Paper, New England Foundation for the Arts

1991   Artist’s Grant, The Artists Foundation, MA

1988   20 x 24 Photography Grant, The Polaroid Corporation

1987   Professional Development Grant, MassArt, Boston

1986   Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts

1985-6 Fellow, The Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA

1984   Patricia Jellinek Prize for Jewelry

           Fellowship, The Artists Foundation, Boston

1983   Professional Development Grant, MassArt, Boston

1982   Finalist, Fulbright Fellowship to Japan

1980   Distinguished Service Award, MASSART, Boston

1976    Fellowship, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME

1975    Artist in Residence to the Public, National Endowment for the Arts, sponsored by the Institute of Contemporary Art’s “Works in Progress”, Boston

1974   Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts

1972    Fellowship, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME

COLLECTIONS

Boston Public Library; Boston Museum of Fine Art; J.L. Brandeis & Sons, Omaha, NB; City of Cambridge, MA; Daphne Farago; The Radcliffe Institute; Cranbrook Academy of Art; Massachusetts College of Art and Design; Robert Lee Morris Collection; Metropolitan Museum; Simmons College; Union Pacific Railroad; Worcester Art Museum

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024    Assembly, Storefront Art Projects, Watertown, MA, organized by Steve Novick

2024    EnvironMental Coy, the Yard at Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY, organized by Sika Foyer

2019    Kith and Kin, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA

Body and Soul, with Tory Fair & Audrey Goldstein, Gallery Very, Boston,

2015   24th Drawing Show: Feelers, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA

Cannot be Described in Words: Drawing/Daring, The Art Complex Museum Duxbury, MA, curated by Deborah Davidson.

            67 Facets, Student Life Gallery, Massart, Boston, MA

Bouncing in the Corner, subSamson Gallery, Boston, MA  

            Excavations, New Art Center, Newton, MA

2013    TALK TO: A salon of pairs, Arheim Gallery, Massart, Boston, organized with Zachary

Herrmann & Nick Sullivan

2011    Drawing Expanded, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA, curated by Deborah

Davidson.

Art Encounters Preservation, Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion, Portsmouth, NH, curated by Allison Newsome

2009    Drawings that Work, Mills Gallery, Boston juried by Andrew Stein Raftery

2007    Rock, Paper, Scissors, Judy Ann Goldman, Boston

            Cut, Paul Kotula Projects, Fernadale, MI

Take Nine, North American Costa Rica Cultural Center, San Jose, Costa Rica

Uncommon Denominations, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA

2005    The Edge of Grace, Fuller Craft Museum, Brocton, MA

2004    Revisited, Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, collaboration with Jon Williams

The Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts. Raphaela Platow, curator

2003    Call & Response, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. Barbara O’Brien, curator (catalogue)

The Art of Drawing, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA

2002    Spirits in the Trees, Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston

Flat/Not Flat, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston

2001    Symposium of Art & Science, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

The Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Bill Arning, curator    

2000    Annual Exhibition, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA (catalogue)

1999    Traveling Scholars, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts

1998    The Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Carl Belz, curator

Enchanted Nature, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston

1997    Material Force, Boston Center for the Arts, Carole Anne Meehan, curator

1996    Jewelry in Europe and America: New Times, New Thinking, Crafts Council Gallery, London, Ralph Turner, curator (book)

3 Generations Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

Signals: Late Twentieth Century American Jewelry, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

1995    The Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Debra Bricker Balken, Howard Yezerski,

curators

1995    Art Jewelry: An Historical View, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

1994    One of a Kind, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA (book)

1993    Schmuckzene ’93, Munich, Germany (catalogue)

1992    Crossroads, Artwear, New York City (catalogue)

Of Power, Myth and Memory, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA

1991    Other Voices, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York City (catalogue)

Amerricky Sperk, Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, Czech Republic

1990    Jewelries/ Epiphanies, The Artists Foundation, Boston (catalogue)

Massachusarts—Installations, Boston Center for the Arts. Marjorie Jacobson, curator

1986    Jeux D”Espace, Conseil del la Sculpture, Montreal, Canada (catalogue)

SELECTED BIBLIOGAPHY                                                                      

Baran-Mickle, William. “Of Magic, Power & Memory: Contemporary and International Jewelry,” Metalsmith.(Fall,1992)
Blatti, Jo. Art + History. The Nightingale-Brown House, Providence, RI. Public Historian. Fall, 2009.
Essex, Eve. “ART + HISTORY@ NIGHTINGALE-BROWN HOUSE,” Exhibition review, August 11, 2009, Big Red & Shiny

Favermann, Mark, “Creative Alloys”—The Boston Metals Scene, Winter 2023.The Arts Fuse. 
Hauswith, Katherine. “Morning at Auburn: A Shared Bench Sit.  The Porch.  theporchcommunity.net

Lloyd, Ann Wilson. Exhibition review. June 2005, Art in America
McCoy, Mary Bucci. Exhibition review. February/March 2004, Art New England
MacLaughlin, Nina, “Primo Levi illustrated in tête-beche artist book”,  March 10, 2024, The Boston Globe.

McQuaid, Cate. “Spirits and Molecules,”, November 2023, Substack.  “Nature, Culture, Creation Itself,” November 13, 2012, The Boston Globe.
“Sprawling Exhibit fits in at Historic Mansion”, September 6, 2011, The Boston Globe “Taking a new look at this old house,” August 19, 2009, The Boston Globe
Millis, Christopher. “New Faces on Newbury Street” July 19, 2002. “Traveling Music” February 26, 1999, “Force Field” April 3, 1998, December 3, 2004, The Boston Phoenix
Nemser, Rebecca. “Places in the heart: the installations of ‘Massachusarts’,” May 4, 1990, The Boston Phoenix Parcellin, Paul. “About Trees,” February/March 1995, Art New England
Tarlow, Lois. Artist Profile, March 1999, Art New England
Temin, Christine. “’ Traveling’ MFA show satisfies without fads.” February 23, 1999; “Making Room for Artworks” July 20, 1990. The Boston Globe

PUBLICATIONS
2023  Voca Network: film.  A conversation with Mira Friedlaender.

   Restless Shelves and Psychophant, an artist’s book, self-published.

   “Two Walks”,  essay in Radio Silence: Book of Walks,  by Deb Todd Wheeler, 2023. pp 125-7.

2018 “Alone Together” at Gallery Very, review for Big Red & Shiny, December 2018.

2000-15 Drawing Books and Essays with MassArt sculpture students, MassArt Library.

Stoops, Susan L. and the Worcester Art Museum. “In Rome: The Pine Grove. And. Natura naturans; natura naturata.” March, 2013.
Turner, Ralph. Jewelry in Europe and America: New Times, New Thinking. Thames & Hudson Ltd. London, 1996

Lewin, Susan Grant. One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today. New York. Harry N. Abrams, 1994. pp 194-7 

EDUCATION
School of the Boston MFA & Tufts University, Diploma, BFA, 1971, MFA 1983

EMPLOYMENT
Professor Emerita. 1974-2018 Professor of Art, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. Mentor, MFA Program, Lesly University, Cambridge, MA
2012 Visiting Artist, Harvard University
2007 Visiting Artist, Oxbow School of Art, Oxbow, MI
1993 Artist-in-Residence, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

RESIDENCIES
2022 Artist in Residence, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA

2020 Open Studio Residency, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

2009 Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome

VOLUNTEER WORK

Community Cooks, Somerville, MA since 2018

BOARD AFFILIATIONS

Catalyst Conversations
Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center 1994-2000

Friends of Palladio, Vicenza, Italy

Gallery @ Green Street Jamaica Plain, MA 2001-2006