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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Walter C. Jackson
Walter C. Jackson
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| Other authors / contributors: | Jackson, Walter C., 1940- interviewee.
Cole, Harriette, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Harriette Cole, interviewer.
Recorded New York, New York 2016 December 16.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Sculptor Walter C. Jackson was born on January 21, 1940 in Durant, Mississippi. Jackson earned his B.S. degree in art education from Jackson State University in 1963. He went on to earn his M.F.A. degree from the University of Tennessee in 1971 and became an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee that same year. He then joined York College of The City University of New York in 1984. Jackson served first as an artist-in-residence, and later as the executive director of the Bronx River Art Center. He participated in a variety of shows in New York City. His work was mainly freestanding sculptures and installations and is included in collections at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Tennessee Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Civil Rights Museum, and the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art. He received numerous grants and awards including the Rotunda Gallery/BCAT Residency in 2001.
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