Jackie Du is an artist and educator whose practices are sustained by her experiences as a child of Taiwanese American Immigrants, connections to natural systems, and interests in providing access to art-making as a means for imagining future possibilities.
Her work has been shown at PS122 Gallery, Photoville Festival, Knockdown Center, Gallery Aferro, and more. She was a Guest Artist at The Sable Project and a Brooklyn Museum Education Fellow. Jackie has been an Art Educator in New York City for over a decade, working with young people to strengthen individual confidence, deepen community care, and cultivate joy through the practice of art-making. She holds a MA in Art Education from the City College of New York, CUNY and a BFA in Visual Arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Jackie co-founded the Young Artist Zine Alliance, a free series of workshops for NYC Teens at The City College of New York. She has worked at numerous museums including the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Arts & Design, The New Museum, and The Museum of Natural History. She was formerly a teaching artist for Arts in Action Visual Art Program, Young New Yorkers, and DreamYard Project. Jackie's presentations at conferences include the National Art Educators Association, The New York City Museum Educators Roundtable, The Museum of the City of New York’s Teaching Social Activism in the Classroom Conference. She has consulted on education projects for various institutions including Poster House and apexart. Jackie has published writing in Museums and Public Art (edited by Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie) and The Museum Scholar.