Studio HCE is proud to host a special online engagement of the juried exhibition, “Full Circle: A Tribute to the Cultural Diversity of Women’s Art” at New York’s Pen and Brush (www.penandbrush.org) studio March 6th – 30th.
Deborah Jack, Juror of Selection and Awards
Deborah Jack is an artist whose work is based in video/sound installation, photography, painting, and text. Her current work deals with trans-cultural existence, memory, the effects of colonialism and mythology through re-memory. Her work was included in the 2007 Brooklyn Museum Exhibition Infinite Island: Contemporary Art. She has published two poetry collections, The Rainy Season (1997) and skin (2006). Her poetry has appeared in The Caribbean Writer and Calabash and she has recited her work in the Caribbean, United States, South Africa and the Netherlands.
Awards and honors include a Caribbean Writers Institute Fellow, University of Miami, Prince Bernard Culture Fund grants, University of Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, Photography Institute-National Graduate Seminar Fellow, Lightwork Artist-in-Residence, Syracuse University, CEPA Exhibition Award, New York Foundation of the Arts SOS grant, and a Big Orbit Gallery Summer Residency. Her work has been exhibited in St. Martin, the United States, and Europe. Jack is also a member of art collective the Evolutionary Girls Club. Her work is part of the Lightwork collection, the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University, the collection of the Island Government of St. Martin and several private collections.
Deborah Jack is an Assistant Professor of Art at New Jersey City University.
Pen and Brush Mission Statement
Founded in 1894, the Pen and Brush is a not-for-profit organization of women professionally
active in the literary, visual, and performing arts. Its goals are to promote women in the arts,
to foster high standards of aesthetics and craftsmanship, to develop the professional activities
of its members, and to educate the general public about the significance of art in personal and
community life. Throughout most of the year, exhibitions of paintings, graphic art, mixed me-
dia, photographs, sculpture, and crafts are held in the galleries. Poetry, prose, and play read-
ings, lectures, demonstrations, concerts, and receptions are regularly scheduled. Other activi-
ties include meetings, discussions, contests, and workshops. The Pen and Brush is located in
its own brownstone in the heart of Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
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