Skip to main content
• Her early work was influenced by the life and philosophy of slain Brazilian rubber tapper Chico Mendes. A trade union leader and environmentalist, Mendes advocated on behalf of Brazil’s rural poor and indigenous peoples. Bishop wrote a book about his activism: Em Memoria Chico Mendes: A Tribute on the Ten-Year Anniversary of His Death (New Orleans: Lavender Ink, 1998).
• The artist earned a bachelor of fine arts degree at the University of Kansas and a matching degree in painting from the University of New Orleans. She received a master of fine arts degree from Tulane University.
• Bishop has taught art at Tulane University and Loyola University and been a producer on Louisiana Artist, WWWNO, New Orleans.
Let's Talk Art Video: https://youtu.be/dHdFTaN01L4?si=kSv8bPf-hhTboRob
Image Not Available
for Jacqueline Bishop
Jacqueline Bishop
United States, born 1955
Place of BirthLong Beach, California
Biography• Bishop has been influenced by more than two decades of traveling through forests in the Amazon, experiencing Hurricane Katrina (2005), and documenting the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill (2010)• Her early work was influenced by the life and philosophy of slain Brazilian rubber tapper Chico Mendes. A trade union leader and environmentalist, Mendes advocated on behalf of Brazil’s rural poor and indigenous peoples. Bishop wrote a book about his activism: Em Memoria Chico Mendes: A Tribute on the Ten-Year Anniversary of His Death (New Orleans: Lavender Ink, 1998).
• The artist earned a bachelor of fine arts degree at the University of Kansas and a matching degree in painting from the University of New Orleans. She received a master of fine arts degree from Tulane University.
• Bishop has taught art at Tulane University and Loyola University and been a producer on Louisiana Artist, WWWNO, New Orleans.
Let's Talk Art Video: https://youtu.be/dHdFTaN01L4?si=kSv8bPf-hhTboRob
United States, born 1954
