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In this episode of The Truth In This Art, the guest is Veronica Jackson!
Who is Veronica Jackson: A Washington, D.C.-bred and Virginia-based visual artist whose foundation is rooted in architecture and museum exhibit design. She critically examines the lives of Black women through innovative visual art, exploring themes of invisibility, hypervisibility, and devaluation—bringing powerful narratives to life using familiar objects, archival texts, and data.
In our conversation, Veronica traces her late-in-life arrival to visual art—graduating from grad school in 2016 with plans to teach, then attending a Santa Fe residency where “art just started pouring out of me.” She breaks down her seminal piece That’s Pops’s Money, a data portrait memorializing her grandmother’s devalued domestic labor through 813 hand-cranked time cards printed in blue ink on black paper—chronicling 67 years of marriage, nine children, and invisible work. Veronica explains how she pulls from established archives like the Library of Congress, Sojourner Truth’s carte de visite statement “I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance,” Jefferson’s Farm Book (which listed enslaved workers alongside cattle), and poets like Lucille Clifton (“…every day something has tried to kill me and has failed”) to tell stories rooted in truth. She discusses her BLACKTIVISTS series spotlighting 13 understudied Black women from the 19th century, including Anna Julia Cooper—the only woman quoted in every U.S. passport—and reflects on how visual culture shapes perceptions, why Black land ownership matters, and what it means for Black women to mark, claim, and take up space.
Don’t miss Veronica Jackson’s work—her archive-driven, text-based pieces make the invisible visible and challenge how we see history, labor, and value.
The Truth In This Art is supported by William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund, the Maryland State Arts Council’s Creativity Grant and Mayor’s Individual Artist Award – Creative Baltimore Fund (Baltimore).
Host: Rob Lee
Music: Original music by Daniel Alexis Music with additional music from Chipzard and TeTresSeis.
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