Faculty Presentation: David Hilliard and Carlos Francisco Jackson
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
5-7 PM
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Join us for an artist talk with artists David Hilliard and Carlos Francisco Jackson .
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About Our Speakers
David Hilliard creates large-scale multi-paneled color photographs, often based on his life or the lives of people around him. He is widely published and exhibits nationally and internationally. Hilliard received his MFA from Yale University and has won numerous awards including a Fulbright Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His photographs can be found in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, among many others. He is a regular visiting faculty at Harvard University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and Lesley University. Hilliard’s work appears in many publications and is represented by the Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York NY, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta GA, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown MA, Rivalry Project, Buffalo NY.
Carlos Francisco Jackson is an artist and writer who lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Since July of 2022 he has served as Dean and Professor of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. Francisco Jackson is a printmaker and painter, primarily specializing in screenprinting with a broad curatorial and writing practice that engages the field of Chicano Art. Prior to July of 2022 he was on the faculty at the University of California, Davis where he co-founded Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer, a community-based workshop in Woodland, California.
