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Following the Path

Drawing since the third grade, Earl Jackson realized his interest and talent for art at an early age. Jackson, who was born in 1948 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and raised in Willow run, a small village 32 miles west of Detroit, attended Wastenaw Community College before transferring the Eastern Michigan University to purse art studies. Jackson had to work full time, however, and could only study art in his off hours, and so He had to forego finishing his art degree. For the next 15 years, he did continue to develop his skills working as a professional picture framer during the day while drawing and painting late into the night. Jackson’s first public show came in 1970 at the Ann Arbor Street Art fair, which led to Eight years of exhibiting in art fairs. But Earl had bigger dreams and decided it was time to pursue a different avenue and learned black and white printmaking over a five-year period. However, it was not until two journey’s to Africa (Senegal) in 1985 and Kenya in 1988 That he was inspired to paint "Following the Path." It was a turning point in his life, because it helped him achieve his lifelong dream only a few months later, When he began working as an artist full-time. Jackson’s art has since been exhibited in the African American Museum of History in Detroit Washtenaw Community College, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, and the National Gallery of Art in Dakar Senegal. Each year Jackson gives back to his community by visiting schools and sharing his art

With the students. He has been a member of the National Conference of Artists since 1983 and the Ann Arbor Art Association, and he is a founding member of the new African American Cultural and Historical Museum in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area.