biography of Suzanne Fitzallen JACKSON (1944)

Birth place: Saint Louis, MO

Addresses: San Francisco

Profession: Painter, writer

Studied: San Fran. State College (B.A.); Otis A. Inst., Los Angeles, with Charles White.

Exhibited: Joseph Hirshhorn Collection, Palm Springs Desert Mus., 1970; Two Generations of Black Artists, Calif. State College, Los Angeles, 1970; Pasadena City College; Watts Tower Art Center; Pasadena Fine Arts Center; Black Untitled II/Dimensions of the Figure, Oakland Mus., 1971; USA? 1971-72, Carnegie Inst., Pittsburgh, 1971-72; Black Expo 1972 Nat., San Francisco, CA, 1972; Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1970s. Awards: Int. Latham Foundation Humane Kindness & World Peace scholarship, 1961.

Member: Nat. Conference of Artists, Int. Art Manifesto for the Defense of Political Prisons, San Francisco.

Work: Joseph Hirshhorn Collection, Palm Springs (CA) Desert Mus.; Mafundi Inst., Watts, CA; Ankrum Gallery; DMJM Co., Los Angeles

Comments: Preferred medium: acrylics. Positions: owner-dir., Gallery 32, Los Angeles, 1968-70; bd. directors, Los Angeles Black Arts Council, 1969-70; art exhibs. coordinator, San Francisco Bay Area Black Expos 1972; mem., Mayor Alioto's Screening Committee for State Artists, San Fran. Art Committee, 1972-74. Teaching: instr., St. Stephens School, San Fran., 1965-66; dance & crafts instr., Watts Towers AC, 1970; lecturer art, Stanford Univ., summer 1972. Collections arranged: coordinator art exhibs. & editor catalogue, Nat., African, Children's, Hist. & Calif. Art Exhibs. for San Francisco Bay Area Black Expo. 1972. Publications: contrib., Black Artists on Art, Vol. 2, 1971 & auth./illus., What I Love,"1972, Contemporary Crafts; contrib., Third World Women's Book, Pocho-Che Publ., 1972; ed. & contribr., Statements Magazine, 1972.

Sources: WW73; Samella Lewis, African American Artists (Harcourt-Brace, 1972); Alfred Frankenstein, "Wide Contrasts in Black Expo. 1972 Art Exhibition," San Francisco Chronicle, September, 1972; Henry J. Seldis, "Art Walk," Los Angeles Times, September, 1972; Cederholm, Afro-American Artists.