Veronica Jackson (b. Washington, DC) creates symbolic remembrance work that honors and illuminates Black women who mark, claim, and take up space. Her multi-decade interpretive exhibit design and architecture career form the foundation of her multidisciplinary and oftentimes autobiographical visual art practice. Her work tells stories utilizing familiar objects and text.

A sample of Jackson’s residencies include SFAI, Santa Fe, NM; Ali Youssefi Project WAL/Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA; VCCA, Amherst, VA; WSW, Rosendale, NY; and Visual Arts Center of Richmond (VisArts), Richmond, VA.

She has exhibited in group and solo shows including NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, NYC; Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA; JSAAHC, PVCC, and UVA all in Charlottesville, VA; Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA; and recent solo shows at VisArts and the Daura Museum of Art, University of Lynchburg. Her work resides in collections of private individuals, as well as the Virginia Humanities, Charlottesville and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.

Jackson holds an MA in Visual & Critical Studies from CCA, San Francisco and a BS in Architecture from UVA, Charlottesville. She currently lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Central Virginia.

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Annette Lawrence’s recent work, Ahkelo's Walk, involves counting days by walking miles. It is a natural extension of her practice of recording everyday occurrences in drawings, paintings, and installations. Like her other works, this project reflects her commitment to finding meaning and beauty in what life brings.

Lawrence’s work has been widely exhibited and is held in museums, and private collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Rachofsky Collection, ArtPace Center for Contemporary Art, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, American Airlines and the Art Collection of the Dallas Cowboys.

She received a BFA from The Hartford Art School and an MFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art. Lawrence's achievements include a 2018 MacDowell Fellowship, the 2015 Moss/Chumley Award, and participation in the 1997 Whitney Biennial. After teaching at the University of North Texas (1996-2021) and Bennington College (2021-2023), she now serves as Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at UNC-Chapel Hill. Lawrence divides her time between North Carolina and Georgia, where she is developing an artist residency called West Orchid.

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LaRissa Rogers is a multidisciplinary artist whose work investigates how personal and shared memory and history impact the perpetual evolution of cultural identity formation and placemaking. Research and material become the entry point of broader social-political interrogations, often asking the question, who and what survives?

Rogers was named to the Forbes' 2024 “30 under 30” list in the Art and Style category. She has exhibited at Documenta 15 (Germany), Weserburg Museum (Germany), Lilley Museum (NV), the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art (CA), the California Museum of Photography (CA), the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (VA), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (CA), California State University, Fullerton, The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MA), Torrence Art Musuem (CA), and the Fuller Craft Museum (MA).  

Rogers received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Virginia Commonwealth University. Rogers is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor and Head of Sculpture at the University of Virginia.

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