Sarah Jackson

Sarah Jeanette Jackson, (née Sherman) (1924 – 2004) was an American-Canadian artist. Jackson first became known for her sculptures and drawings, and then for her photocopy and digital art. She was an early user of the photocopier to make art, and used this practice to embrace mail art. Biography She was born in Detroit in 1924. She studied at the University of London and Wayne State University. She graduated in 1948 and left for Mexico City where she taught English at Mexico City College and began her life as an artist. She arranged international copy art festivals and mail art exhibitions, believing that this could lead to an ideal democratic interchange between artists and the public, without regard to political, economic or cultural barriers. Jackson documented these with published catalogues including the 1985 International Mail/Copier Art Exhibition catalogue which received an award of excellence from the Art Museum Association of America. The assembled works were displayed both in London in 1987 and at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in 1992 and became part of the collection of the Canadian Postal Museum.