Tucson, AZ, United States
Jackson Boelts Professor Emeritus, has been an artist, educator, designer for over 40 years and in t...
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Jackson Boelts Professor Emeritus, has been an artist, educator, designer for over 40 years and in that time he has won over 400 awards for his work. He has exhibited work in Moscow, Mexico City, Berlin, Warsaw, Chile, and numerous locations nationally. He is a Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of Arizona, he has been a Visiting Artist at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and has taught watercolor and drawing in Orvieto, Italy.
Jackson’s strengths lie in the visual realm. His mother, Carol Boelts, taught him watercolor when he was 12 years old and he is now an accomplished painter and designer. He is a master at landscape watercolor and is currently working on large abstract watercolors of “Cowboys and Cowgirls on the Border” for which he and Joseph Labate received a grant from The University of Arizona’s Confluencenter for the creation of this work. He recently had two of his large watercolor paintings from “War Zone” accepted into a juried national exhibition “ARTillery: Modern Art influenced by Weapons of War” at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Mesa, Arizona and they were also in a juried exhibition in Tennessee. His work has appeared in the School of Art’s Faculty Exhibition for the 35 years and for the last 10 y...
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