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Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney, owner of She Roks! Studio and citizen of New Orleans, started her artistic journey with coloring books, daydreams and doll houses and is a nationally recognized artist. She created the Big City Women series in 1995 as a vehicle for her vibrant, jazzy contemporary quilted textile collages and stories.
In 2008, Jacquelyn will be working with Mos Chukma Institute housed at the Martin Luther School of Science and Technology in New Orleans working with the institute using the arts to aid in restructuring those still grieving and recovery. She will release her first book "Covering My Heart, so My Soul can stay Warm" by the end of 2008. Additionally, Ms Mooney's mes affairs belles (my beautiful belongings) "If Jazz was a Color?" exhibition was at the American Jazz Museum.
She has lectured at the Witherspoon Museum, North Charleston Cultural Art Center, Sallie Hawkins Brown Museum, Spelman College, Berea Art Council, and Indiana University among others, Jacquelyn has appeared several times on the Bev Smith Show, a nationally syndicated radio show as a cultural consultant during the Hurricane Katrina recovery and reinvention. Jacquelyn’s work has previously been featured at the, Rosarios Prestos- Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, Galleria Tonatazin, Pacific Grove Art Center, the Museum of Apparel, Textile and Interior Design, & the Autry Museum, and numerous colleges and universities in the U.S.
Her "visual poetry" has been featured in numerous books and publications, including the Today Show, Minority Business Report, My Soul is Anchored, WFMY Morning Show, Fox News, Homes of Color magazine, Spirit in the Cloth, Business Week, Working Women and Emerge magazines. Among her accomplishments, Ms. Mooney served as the Artist in Residence at Bennett College for Women from 2004-2007 and her works have been in the collection of Drs. Bill & Camille Cosby, Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Bill Gates Sr., and former U.S President Bill Clinton. Jacquelyn’s work has been commissioned and own by corporations from Johnson Baby Products, Exxon Mobile, Genentech Inc. Howard University, Wachovia Bank, Glaxsco, Smith & Klien among others.
She currently resides in Greensboro, North Carolina, and still dares to dream.
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