Jackson Boelts

Jackson Boelts is an artist, designer, educator, and Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of Arizona whose career has spanned more than four decades. During that time he has received more than 400 awards for his work and has exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions in Moscow, Mexico City, Berlin, Warsaw, Chile, and throughout the United States. He has served as a Visiting Artist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and has taught watercolor and drawing in Orvieto, Italy.

Introduced to watercolor at the age of twelve by his mother, artist Carol Boelts, Jackson developed an early fascination with the expressive possibilities of the medium. That childhood introduction grew into a lifelong artistic practice encompassing landscape painting, graphic design, drawing, printmaking, and contemporary watercolor.