Margaret Jacobs (Akwesasne Mohawk) is an artist, independent curator, and educator currently based in Salem, New York. She studied fine arts at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, where she was awarded High Honors and the Perspectives on Design Award for her thesis work. She has participated in numerous artist residencies, including the Artist-in-Residence (A-i-R) Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Sante Fe, New Mexico; OÁYE Virtual Artist Rezidency Program at the Oglala Lakota College in South Dakota, and Visiting Artist Program at Franconia Sculpture Park in Shafer, Minnesota. Her curatorial work began in 2010 with the nonprofit arts organization AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and she has continued independently curating exhibitions since 2017, working with different organizations including the Iroquois Museum in Howes Cave, NY and UB Art Galleries at the University at Buffalo. Jacobs is a recipient of the 2018 Rebecca Blunk Fund Award through New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), a 2019 Artist in Business Leadership Award through the First Peoples Fund, a 2021 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, and a 2022 Canada Council Small Projects Grant.
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Cape Town, South Africa
Skopje, Macedonia
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Quito, Ecuador
Dublin, Ireland
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Tirana, Albania
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Dakar, Senegal
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