Biographical Statement
Jacquelyn Tait Leebrick has been a practicing artist working in photo-based media and a photographic educator for the past 40 years. She has resided in North Carolina since 1980. She is Professor Emeritus of Photography in the School of Art and Design at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. She received a Masters of Fine Art from Clemson University and a Masters of Art from Florida State University. Feature articles on Jacquelyn's artwork have appeared in Digital Fine Art Magazine and Camera Arts Magazine.
Jacquelyn has been exhibiting her photographs internationally, nationally and regionally for over 35 years. In summer of 2008 The Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film in Charlotte, North Carolina, exhibited a mid-career retrospective of her artwork. She has received recognition for her work through awards, purchases, grants and publications. In recent years, she has lectured and conducted workshops in traditional photography, digital illustration, digital imaging, Polaroid transfers, polymer lifts and the hand coloring of black and white photographs at universities in the southeast and northeast and at regional photographic conferences.
Jacquelyn and her husband Gil Leebrick were honored educators at the Southeast Society for Photographic Education Conference in fall of 2011.
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Employment
Associate Professor, School of Art and Design, ECU, 1995-2011
Area Coordinator, Photography, School of Art and Design, ECU, 2005-2009
Director, Graduates Studies, School of Art, ECU, spring, 1997-2005
Director, Bascom-Louise Gallery, Highlands, NC: 1985-1995
Media Production Specialist, Durham County Schools, Durham, NC. 1981
Education
M.F.A., Art, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.
M.A., Art, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
B.S., Art,, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Recent Creative Exhibitions
2012
Changing Focus: The Image in Flux
FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2011
Penland School of Crafts 2012 Annual Benefit Auction
Penland, North Carolina
FRANK Gallery Holiday Exhibition
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
School of Art and Design Faculty Exhibit
Wellington B. Gray Gallery, School of Art and Design, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
October - November, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
2010
City Art Gallery Affiliation Exhibition
City Art Gallery, Greenville, North Carolina
Innerscapes 2 person exhibition
Brevard College Spiers Gallery, Brevard, NC
2009
Chancellor's Exhibition
Spillman Gallery, East Carolina University
North Carolina Photographers Juried Bienneal Exhibition
Frankie G. Weems Art Gallery, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC
City Art Gallery 10th Anniversary Exhibition
City Art Gallery, Greenville, North Carolina
2008
Toledo Friends of Photography 2008 National Juried Photography Exhibition
University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts, Toledo, Ohio
2007
The Light Factory 26th Annual Benefit Auction Preview Exhibition
The Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film, Charlotte, North Carolina
A Place Called Home Southeast Photography Faculty Exhibition
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
SPOT! Southeastern Photography Juried Triennial
The Gregg museum of Art and Design, Raleigh, North Carolina
http://gad.ncsu.edu/images/slideshows/SPoT/index.html
Jacquelyn Leebrick: A Retrospective One-person exhibition
The Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film, Charlotte, North Carolina
http://www.lightfactory.org/exhibitions/past.htm
Selected Awards
Third Prize, North Carolina Photographers Bienneal Exhibition, Frankie G. Weems Art Gallery, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC . 2009
CFAC Purchase Award, School of Art and Design Faculty Exhibit, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, School of Art and Desgin, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC., 2009
Honorable Mention Award, The Art of Photography Exhibit 2006, San Diego, California, 2006
Juror’s Award, Through Women’s Eyes; By Women’s Hands The Women’s Center 2nd Annual Exhibit, Chapel Hill, NC, 2006
Award of Merit, 24th NC Photography Annual Exhibition 2004 Raleigh Photographic Arts Association. Meredith College, Raleigh, NC. 2004
Lamar Dodd Purchase Award, LaGrange National Biennial XXIII Exhibition Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, Georgia. March 13- April 24, 2004
Honorable Mention, Toledo Friends of Photography 7th National Juried Exhibit Center of Visual Arts of University of Toledo, Toledo, OH. January 2- 30, 2004
First Place, Exposure, Greensboro Artists League, Greensboro, NC. Jan-Feb, 2003
Award of Merit; Cicada Purchase Award, 22nd NC Photography Annual Exhibit, Raleigh Photographic Arts Association. Meredith College, Raleigh, NC. Nov- Dec, 2002
Third Place Alternative Category, Southern Visions Photography Competition Museum of York County, Rock Hill, South Carolina. August 25, 2001- January 1, 2002
Publications
2010 , 2009, 2007 Photographs published in the North Carolina Literary Review
Creating Polaroid Transfers from 35 mm Slides of Digital Files: Feature article written by J. Leebrick . Camera Arts Magazine. February/March 2002
The Echoes of Memory: Feature article on artwork in Digital Fine Art Magazine Winter 2000
Recent Professional Presentations
Changing Focus Artist Talk. Chapel Hill, NC. 2012
Visual Literacy in Photograhy. Omprekosh Cross Cultural Conference, Costa Rica, 2012
Jacquelyn Leebrick: The art making process: reflections on a visual journey. Arenal, Costa Rica. 2012
Honored Educators Presentation of Artwork. Southeast Conference for Society of Photographic Educators. Myrtle Beach, S.C. 2011
Jacquelyn Leebrick: The development of a Body of Digital Collage Artwork. Presentation at Brevard College, Brevard, North Carolina 2010
Moderator, Panel presentation by poet Allison Hedge Coke. 2009
A Personal Journey: Results of research on digital color management. ECU. 2008
Jacquelyn Leebrick: The Evolution of a Retrospective Body of Artwork. Presentation at
The Light Factory Museum of Photography and Film. Charlotte, North Carolina. 2007
Graduate Program Presentation on ECU Photography MFA Program. Invited presentation at Society of Photographic Education Regional conference, Savannah GA. 2007