BIO

My passion for learning, creating, and teaching began at an early age and has continued throughout my professional and personal life. As a child, I would come home from school and use my chalkboard to teach my imaginary class. I would also don my artist's smock and create works of art in my "studio" (my childhood bedroom) while listening to Top 40 tunes and thinking to myself, "You're good!" These moments I created strengthened my confidence and propelled my studies of the visual arts even when my environment did not support my talent, course of study, or career choice. Women of my generation had limited career paths, albeit worthwhile, these paths were not aligned with my passions.

 

While studying painting and drawing in graduate school, I had the opportunity to teach an evening college-level arts appreciation course. I can remember driving home on a cold dark October night and thinking to myself, "This is a blast!" This intersection of teaching and learning was incredibly impactful. It was an epiphany that prompted me to change from a studio visual arts major to an education major with a focus on multicultural visual arts. Learning about and appreciating art forms and artists from diverse cultures shaped me to create artworks authentic to my cultural identity and experience. I am a EuroAmerican woman shaped by the pop culture of the sixties, seventies, and eighties as well as the contemporary culture of today.

 

Each artist must create what is real to her/him/them, or the work is just an exercise in recreating the experiences of someone else. These artworks are indeed my own experience and flow from my imagination and intuition.

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EXHIBITION RECORD

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2023–2024 Two-Person Exhibition, Dollhouse Dreams & Abstractions, Sumter County Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC (with quilt artist Sylvia Pickell). https://sumtergallery.com/sylvia-pickell-yes-i-do-need-them-all-jacqueline-kern-dollhouse-dreams-abstractions/

 

2019  Artist Spotlight: http://faumacarthurlibraryexhibit.blogspot.com/2019/08/

 

2017  PBSC Art Faculty Exhibition, Palm Beach State College, The Art Gallery at Palm Beach Gardens Campus, Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

 

2016  3rd Annual Extraordinary 6 X 6 Art Sale and Exhibition, Cornell Museum of Art, Delray Beach, FL.

 

2015  Unveil: The Stigma, The Truth, The Art; Compass Community Center, Lake Worth, FL.

 

2015  I am Woman: Contemporary Artists About the Feminine Condition, Bronx-Breeze (Apartment Gallery), Bronx, NY (Film Screening).

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2015–2016  Artistically Speaking I: Women’s Roles in Contemporary Art, Cornell Museum of Art, Delray Beach, FL.

 

2015  Art Faculty Exhibition, The Art Gallery at Palm Beach Gardens Campus, Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

 

2013  Palm Beach State College’s Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition, The Art Gallery at Palm Beach Gardens Campus, Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

 

2011  Palm Beach State College’s Biennial Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition, The Art Gallery at Palm Beach Gardens Campus, Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

 

2011  Floral and Fauna Series: Paintings and Mixed Media, John D. MacArthur Campus Library Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, MacArthur Campus, Jupiter, FL

 

2010  Palm Beach Community College’s Fine Arts Faculty Show, The Gallery at Lake Worth Campus, Lake Worth FL.

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2009  Fe-Male: Transitions, multimedia art exhibition with Diane Arrieta, John D. MacArthur Library Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, MacArthur Campus, Jupiter, FL.

                   

2009  FemArt: The State of Womanhood, Florida Atlantic University, MacArthur Campus, Jupiter, FL.

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2007  Nude Nite, Juried Show, Orlando, FL.

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2006  HORSEPOWER: A Companion Exhibition to Deborah Butterfield, The Norton Museum of Art, Marden Community Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL.

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2004, 2003, and 2002 Group Show, Soho Arts South, Palm Beach, FL.

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2001, Tribby, Mogerley, and Kern at Soho Arts South, Palm Beach, FL.

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2000, LeBeau, Mogerley, and Kern at Soho Arts South, West Palm Beach, FL.

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1999, Group Show, Soho Arts South, West Palm Beach, FL.

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PUBLICATIONS

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Meet Dr. Jacqueline Kern: Artist & art educator. (2023, December 28). Shoutout Miami. Meet Dr. Jacqueline Kern | Artist & Art Educator - SHOUTOUT MIAMI 

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Arrieta, D. & Kern, J. (Eds.). (2016).  Artistically speaking: Women’s roles in contemporary art & society.  Jupiter, FL: John D. MacArthur Campus Library, Florida Atlantic University.

 

Arrieta, D. & Kern, J. (2015).  Art outreach toward STEAM and academic libraries.  New Library World, 116 (11/12), 677–695.

 

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