Visual artist Carlos Jackson appointed as U-M Stamps dean

Carlos Francisco Jackson - Carlos Francisco Jackson, professor and associate dean of the University of California, Davis College of Letters and Science, has been appointed dean of the University of Michigan's Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. His appointment, approved May 19 by the Board of Regents, is effective July 1 and runs through June 30, 2027. As a visual artist and writer, Jackson's work reflects the themes and imagery of the Latina/Latino presence in American art, contemporary Latina/Latino printmaking, and the rise and impact of Chicana/Chicano graphics. In her recommendation to the Board of Regents, U-M Provost Laurie McCauley pointed to Jackson's success as the co-founding director of Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer, a community-based art center, for providing him experience securing external funding and negotiating with multiple municipalities and constituencies to present curricular and artistic programming. The collaborative partnership that began in 2004 between the UC Davis Department of Chicana/o Studies and the Woodland, California, community also "enabled community members alienated from cultural and institutional representation to emerge as cultural agents,” McCauley wrote. Jackson, who also was named a tenured professor of art and design, follows Gunalan Nadarajan, who will step down at the end of June after serving for a decade as dean. "Professor Jackson is an accomplished artist, an engaging teacher and an experienced academic administrator,” McCauley said.