Veronica Jackson

Veronica Jackson believes in making connections across the various disciplines of visual culture—art, architecture and design—as embodied in a multiple decade practice consisting of exhibition, interpretive, and communication design. She honed her conceptual and creative skills by working on culturally significant and historically prominent projects around the country. Examples range from the inaugural and permanent exhibit at Baltimore’s Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture to the reinstallation of the Hall of African Culture at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. She engages with scholars, researchers, artists, curators, and educators through the design process to deliver thought provoking, intriguing, and empowering environments. Jackson brings numerous capabilities to each project. These extend from communicating to diverse audiences to creating inviting and engaging exhibits that promote discovery. In her role as Senior Exhibit Designer and as Lead Designer on several large and small-scale projects, she collaborates with clients, industry professionals, and the public to ensure elegant and accessible experiences from concept to implementation.

Jackson is also a committed collector and supporter of the visual arts. She holds firm that as a means of self-expression, art is a transformative experience. Whatever role artistic exploration plays for an individual or for a society, Veronica is committed to ensuring its existence and availability to anyone who wants to produce it, gaze at it, debate it, or simply live with it.

Taking a brief hiatus from her professional practice, Jackson is currently pursing a Master’s degree in Visual and Critical Studies at California College of the Arts. Her graduate-school work examines identity, agency, and empowerment as performed by women of color in visual culture.