Art by Jackie
Artist
Jacqueline Y. Holloway
Locations:
Office: Home Office
3812 Debonair Drive
Knoxville, TN 37912
865-382-3599
www.artbyjackie.wix.com/artbyjackie
About
HONORS & AWARDS/GRANTS
Certificate of Achievement - Career Quest
June 1998 - Knoxville, TN
Certificate of Achievement - Nova Information System / Customer Service Training
July 1999 - Knoxville, TN
Certificate of Completion - Small Business Start-Up Series / Tennessee Small Business Employment Center - October 2002 - Knoxville, TN
Certificate of Achievement - Nova Information System / Loss Prevention Merchant Operating- February 2003 - Knoxville, TN
Certificate of Achievement - Nova Information System / Loss Prevention Volume Investigations - February 2003 - Knoxville, TN
Certificate of Achievement - Nova Information System / Loss Prevention E-Commerce and Fraud - March 2003 - Knoxville, TN
Outstanding Achievement - Nova Information System / Loss Prevention
May & July 2003 - Knoxville, TN
Perfect Attendance - Nova Information System / Loss Prevention
February 2003 - August 2005 - Knoxville, TN
Team Player of The Month Nominee - Nova Information System / Loss Prevention
March 2006 - Knoxville, TN
Honorable Mention - African International Juried Art Show / World Grotto, for “Sun Lake” Pastel, July 2006 - Knoxville, TN
Honorable Mention - African International Juried Art Show / World Grotto, for “Garden Geisha” Watercolors, July 2006 - Knoxville, TN
Grant winner of the City of Knoxville Arts And Culture Grant FY 2011 - The Canvas Can Do Miracles Art Studio / The Literacy Imperative - October 2010, Knoxville, TN
Grant winner of the Target’s Arts and Culture In School FY 2010 - The Canvas Can Do Miracles/ ArtReach at Boys & Girls Club Haslam Campus with Professional Artist John Simms - October 2010 - Knoxville, TN
Selected as Artist to Design Logo for 2017 Louie Bluie Festival.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Special Guest Speaker / “Southeast Presbytery Women’s Summer Retreat @ King College
July 2002 - Bristol, TN
Listed Advertisement / Knoxville Black Pages Magazine, NMP Info.
January 2007 - January 2010 - Knoxville, TN
Radio Guest Speaker / “Business On Demand Show”, 1580 AM
May 2007, June 2008, March 2009, November 2010 - Knoxville, TN
Newspaper Featured Article - “Art by Jackie” / The Knoxville Journal
May 2007 - Knoxville, TN
Newspaper Article - Canvas Can Do Miracles Art Studio Grand Opening / The News Sentinel - May - 2008 - Knoxville, TN
Television Guest Speaker - Miracle Feast Fundraiser / “Live At Five”, Channel 10 WBIR
June 2008 - Knoxville, TN
Newspaper Featured Article -“The Canvas Can Do Miracles” / The Enlightener
March 2009 - Knox., TN
Newspaper Featured Article -“Evening for Queens” celebrates recovering women“ / The Enlightener May 2009 - Knoxville, TN
Television Guest Speaker - “The Wholistic View International” / Channel 12 CTK
October 2009 - Knoxville, TN
Newspaper Featured Article - “Art projects help recovery, mural dedicated to victims of inner-city violence” / The News Sentinel, October 2009 - Knoxville, TN
Documentary “The Canvas Can Do Miracles” / Gene TV, Channel 12 CTK
February 2010, Knoxville, TN
Newspaper Article - Art by Jackie Vendor / Halls/Fountain City Shopper News
December 2012 - Knoxville, TN
EXHIBITIONS
Artist Showing / 1st Annual Community Accountability Conference / CEC Church
March 2000 - Knoxville, TN
Multi - Artist Showing / African American Appalachian Arts Festival / Chilhowee Park
July 2000 - Knoxville, TN
Multi - Artist Showing / 2nd Annual Urban Community Expo / Merchant Expo Center April 2001 - Knoxville, TN
Single Artist Demonstration / Urban Business Expo / CEC Church
April 2002 - Knoxville, TN
Multi - Artist Showing - African American Appalachian Arts Festival / Knoxville Art Museum
June 2003 - Knoxville, TN
Multi - Artist Showing - Art For Awareness 2007 / State Capital May 2007 - Nashville, TN
Art Display -Department Of Mental Health Conference Room / State Capital, Legislative Plaza June - December 2007 - Nashville, TN
Multi - Artist Showing - African American Appalachian Arts Kuumba Festival / World Grotto - July 2007 - Knoxville, TN
Multi-Artist Showing/Department Of Mental Health / State Capital
December 2007 - Nashville, TN
Multi-Artist Showing / Beck Cultural Center
October 2007 - Knoxville, TN
Local Black Artist / Deka Bakari Gallery, Inc.
Feb. 2008 - Knoxville, TN
Multi - Artist Showing - Ebony Imagery IIX / Oak Ridge Art Center
January - March 2008 - Oak Ridge, TN
Multi - Artist Showing -“Tell Me A Story/Narrative Work” / Oak Ridge Art Center
March - April 2008 - Oak Ridge, TN
Single Artist Showing / Framework Custom Framing Gallery & Graphic Design Studio
June - Oct. 2008 - Knoxville, TN
“Urban Breakthrough” / Mural Un-veiling / Walter P. Taylor Housing Project
October 2009 - Knoxville, TN
Multi - Artist Showing / King Week Celebration / East Tennessee Historical Society
January 2011 - Knoxville, TN
Multi - Artist Showing / Beck Cultural Center
October 2011 - Knoxville, TN
Multi - Artist Showing - “Ebony Imagery IIX “/ Oak Ridge Art Center
January - March 2012 - Oak Ridge, TN
Multi - Artist Showing -“Metamorphosis Recycle to Art” / Oak Ridge Art Center
March - April 2012 - Oak Ridge, TN
Multi - Artist Showing / Henson Gallery Turkey Creek
July - September 2012 - Knoxville, TN
The Canvas Can Do Miracles Art Studio / The Literacy Imperative
June 2008 - Present - Knoxville, TN
Multi - Artist Showing / Nuance Gallery
December 2012 - Present - Knoxville, TN
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Affiliate/Facilitator for The Literacy Imperative’s (TLI) art ministry; a faith-based not-for-profit entity that promotes literacy in economically disadvantaged communities. "The Canvas Can Do Miracles" art studio, offering free art classes for individual struggling with substance abuse. TLI, 201 Harriet Tubman Street, Knoxville, TN 37915, 865-673-8988
Affiliate/Facilitator of A.R.T.S., inner-city youth arts program. (Grade 3 -7) Boys and Girls Club of The Tennessee Valley, 220 Carrick Street, Suite 318, Knoxville, TN, 37921, 865-248-1200 www.bgctnv.org
Affiliate for ArtReach, non-profit organization that provides mentoring and art-related programs to a growing population of children at risk and to others in need. Administrative Offices, 12012 Wickchester Suite 300, Houston TX, 77079, 713-444-1897, www.artreachonline.org Knoxville, TN chapter
Affiliate with the Knox County Sherriff’s Department, The Canvas Can Do Miracles art
Classes at the Men and Women Jails. Contact - Chef Pete Garza, pete.garza@knoxsheriff.org
Affiliate of The Literacy Imperative (TLI) and Harriet Tubman Park Tennis
Association (HTTA), “Summer Classes for Youth”. An athletic, academic, and cultural
experience offered for youth during summer vacation. Tues. & Thurs., May 31st - Aug. 16, 2012, Harriet Tubman Park Tennis Association - Zimbabwe U. Matavou (865) 637-8246,
Raymond Gill (865) 254-3032, Dr. Dawn Duke, Chair, Africana Studies Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures University of Tennessee, 617 McClung Tower, 1115 Volunteer Blvd. Knoxville TN 37996, USA, Tel: (865) 974-7006, E-mail: dduke1@utk.edu
Affiliate with the African American Knowledge Community for NASPA Region 1 conference. Colber Prosper, Coordinator of Multicultural Student Affairs at Keene State College, Email: cprosper@keene.edu, Office: 603.358.2609
EXPERIENCE
Designed logo the Center For Neighborhood Development. May 1986 - Knoxville, TN
Produced cover art for “Chit Chat About This ‘N That”, Author Gwendolyn P. Rivers, January 2002, Knoxville, TN
Designed logo for the Loss Prevention Department, Nova Info. Systems
July 2003, Knoxville, TN
Event Planner for “Miracle Fest 2008” - Benefit Concert for, “ The Canvas Can Do Miracles” Art Studio, World’s Fair Site Amphitheater - June 8, 2008 - Knoxville, TN
Volunteer Art Instructor of “The Canvas Can Do Miracles - Summer Colors”, summer children’s art program for The Literacy Imperative. ( Grade 3 -7) TLI, Classes Thurs. 6 - 8pm July - August - 2009, Knoxville, TN
Volunteer Art Instructor for The Literacy Imperative‘s adult art recovery program, "The Canvas Can Do Miracles", Classes Wednesdays 6 - 9pm - June 2008 - Present - Knoxville, TN
Volunteer Art Instructor of A.R.T.S. children’s art program. ( Grade 3 -7) Walter P. Taylor Homes Boys & Girls Club of Tennessee Valley, Classes Thursdays 4-5pm. October - 2009 - 2011 - Boys and Girls Club of The Tennessee Valley, 220 Carrick Street, Suite 318, Knoxville, TN, 37921, 865-248-1200 www.bgctnv.org
Art Assistant for Professional Artist John Simms with Target’s Arts and Culture In School Grant FY 2010 - ArtReach at Boys & Girls Club Haslam Campus - October 2010, Knoxville TN
Volunteer Art Instructor for The Literacy Imperative (TLI) and Harriet Tubman Park
Tennis Association (HTTA), Summer Classes for Youth” in Knoxville TN. An athletic,
academic, and cultural experience offered for youth during summer vacation. Tues. &
Thurs., May 31st - Aug. 16, 2012, Harriet Tubman Park Tennis Association - Zimbabwe U.
Matavou (865) 637-8246, Raymond Gill (865) 254-3032, Dr. Dawn Duke, Chair, Africana
Studies Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Department of Modern Foreign
Languages and Literatures University of Tennessee, 617 McClung Tower, 1115 Volunteer Blvd. Knoxville TN 37996, USA, Tel: (865) 974-7006, E-mail: dduke1@utk.edu
Jacqueline Holloway has been a multi-media artist since childhood, with expertise in realistic portrait drawings and found object art; being compared to the Folk Artist Bessie Harvey. I attended Pellissippi State Community College for Graphic Arts. Visionary, Fascinator and Director of the Literacy Imperative’s Inc. (TLI) fine art department and studio, “The Canvas Can Do Miracles“; offering free art classes for adult artist and individuals recovering from substance abuse. Also, founder of “A.rtist R.eaching T.alented S.tudents (A.R.T.S.) “, a program started for the Knoxville’s Boys and Girls Clubs of The Tennessee Valley, working with children grade 3-7 and now a program of TLI. Award winning artwork has been exhibited in Tennessee at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee State Capital Building and art galleries, exhibits and showings.
Artist's Statement
Being African-American growing up in rural Tennessee in the 60’s; I had to use my
imagination to travel away from the secluded countryside. Growing up with no electricity
became my muse. Time spend drawing clouds and trees, outside in fields of grass was “TV” time. Nature was the voice speaking; entertaining my soul.
Using drift-wood, roots, dried flowers, tree bark, seeds and even moss, I use this botanical relationship to guide me; creating, re-defining the objects character. Being compared to the great Bessie Harvey, who brought lofty stature to lowly materials; I to have a connection with nature, especially trees. I am working on a series entitled, “God’s Voice”, using unique parts of trees, found objects, etc; letting the piece tell it’s own story.
I purpose in each work, that the “Ultimate Creator” (God) will be looked upon and felt. My focus on the natural details that influence me to express encouragement using various mediums like, pencil, crayons, paint or pastels with the found gems.
My artistic eye was amplified and miraculously brought back and continues by life’s struggles and pain. The first piece in the “God Voice” series, is entitled, “Job”, named after the book in the Bible’s Old Testament. Battling a drug addiction that left me mentally and physically worn, I discovered the branch resting peacefully in a sea of dead leaves. It’s shape was similar to a human’s torso that was missing it’s head and feet. There appeared to be a gunshot wound in it’s back, and one arm was mangled and the other arm was reaching up towards the sky; both with no hands.
As I picked up the tortured looking body, the Spirit of the Lord Jesus spoke to me and said, “No Matter How Many Scars Remain From Wounds Of Your Past, Use What Is Left Of Your Life To Praise Me.” So compelled to help other like myself, I began motivating others as volunteer Art Director for The Literacy Imperative, Inc. (TLI) in 2008. The goal to encourage children and adults to pursue a career in the arts. In the free classes we expose students to varying aspects of art history and education from the old master’s to local and regional artist.
The studio provides students with an overview of art instruction, trend, techniques and styles, enhancing their ability to bring about Spiritual change through art. Focusing on visual art as a journey into Spiritual change with art projects and sessions. Art exhibits and showings are held at TLI and local & regional venues to assist students in business management as an avenue to become profitable artist.
Students have gone on to The Art Institute of Tennessee, become business owners, and even instructors. Using the creative eye God gave me with minimal art education; I am always pursuing ways to acquire knowledge to enhance this gift I have been blessed to share.
