Hubert Jackson

Jackson earned his BFA in Fine Arts Education at Virginia State University in 1965. After graduation, he moved to Washington, DC. By 1971, he earned his MA in painting from Howard University. At Howard, he enjoyed studying with James Porter, Lois Jones, Ed Love, Jeff Donaldson, and Starmanda Bullock. In the early 1970s, he participated in the historical national movement of community based mural projects under the advisement of Hughie Lee-Smith.

In 1999 Jackson retired from 34 years of teaching art in the Washington, DC, public school system. Twenty-seven of those years Jackson dedicated himself to his students at Woodrow Wilson High School. In early 2004 he attended the Corcoran School of Art, where he studied under noted artists William Christenberry and Steven Cushner.

Jackson has exhibited extensively. His work is in a number of private collections, in the US and abroad. These include ambassadors of foreign countries such as Lesotho, Ghana, Guinea and New Guinea, through the Artist in Embassies program. He is co-founder of the Wider River Gallery in Colonial Beach, Virginia.