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Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney, a native of New Orleans, is a visual poet, creating contemporary quilted textile collages. Mooney started her artistic journey with coloring books, daydreams and doll houses. In 1995, she created the Big City Women series as a vehicle for her woven stories. Mooney has lectured at the Witherspoon Museum, North Charleston Cultural Art Center, and Spelman College.
Her works are in numerous exhibitions housed in both private & corporate collections including Oprah Winfrey, the Hon. William Jefferson Clinton, George H. Bush Sr., Bill Gates Sr., Drs Bill & Camille Cosby, Johnetta Betsch Cole, Maya Angelou, Danny Glover, Baroness Valere Amos & others. In 2010, she will serve as the Artist in Residence for the River Road African American Museum & will be one of the featured artists at the Essence Music Festival Marketplace for 2010.
Jacquelyn?s popular If Jazz was a Color? visual series have been featured at the American Jazz Museum, Kemper Gallery, Villa Treme Museum, Museum of Apparel, the River Road Afrcan Amercan Museum and Textile & Interior Design among others. A variety of periodicals & books have highlighted Ms. Mooney's work such as Business Weekly, Emerge, More, New Orleans Magazine, Essence, Spirit in the Cloth, Black Threads, A Communion in the Spirit and others. She has enjoyed a number of corporate commissions including Exxon Mobile, Johnson Baby Products, Genentech, Food Lion & other. Ms. Mooney has appeared on NBC?s Today Show, the Bev Smith Show, and Minority Business Report& served from 2004-2007 as the Artist in Residence at Bennett College for Women.
Mooney?s vibrant and heartfelt textile art has been seen as the tangible results of her own life and the observation of human behavior. She returned to her beloved New Orleans in the fall of 2009 to continue her Changed Waters Project & soon to be launched Burnt. Toast, Sweet Tea & Thyme series. Jacquelyn is a mother of three, a grandmother of 10 budding artists and still dares to dream.
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