by caroljacobsen.org | Jun 14, 2025 | Education
Praise, Purpose, and a Path Forward for Teaching Black History I was delighted to receive a heartfelt thank-you note from the director of two elementary schools in the Bay Area, California. She shared how her students used my Women of Color and Accomplishment Coloring...
by caroljacobsen.org | Jun 4, 2025 | Art
Note: After I made this blog, I used a combination of ChatGPT prompts and image manipulation in PhotoShop to produce the image above. Last time I logged into ChatGPT I got a message that it now saves all my conversations. This is fine with me because I only ask it...
by caroljacobsen.org | Aug 27, 2024 | Information
After having a YouTube channel for 12 years that covered all the different videos I created, I added a new channel: @CarolJacobsenArtist My YouTube videos on this channel are all about my Women of Color and Accomplishment series. Many of them are from talks I’ve...
by caroljacobsen.org | Aug 9, 2024 | Art, Paintings
W. Gertrude Brown 1888–1949 W. Gertrude Brown was an American educator and social worker. She is best known as the first head resident of the Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House in Minneapolis,...
by caroljacobsen.org | Jun 26, 2024 | Art, Paintings
Mary Washington 1906–2005 Mary Washington was a Black Certified Public Accountant (CPA) who was a leader in future generations of Black CPAs. After high school, where Washington excelled in math, she worked at one of the few African American owned banks in th 1920s....
by caroljacobsen.org | May 26, 2024 | Art, Paintings
Reatha Clark King 1938- As a child in Georgia, Reatha Clark King picked cotton for $6 a day to help her family make ends meet. Long days in the hot sun was her motivation for something better. Says King, “There is nothing that motivates you like hard work in the...
by caroljacobsen.org | May 26, 2024 | Art, Paintings
Clara McBride Hale 1905-1992 Clara McBride Hale, also known as Mother Hale, ran a daycare for children and fostered 40 others. After retiring at 65, she founded the Hale House Center, a home for children born addicted to drugs. Hale was the first in her...
by caroljacobsen.org | Mar 21, 2024 | Art, Paintings
My talk, 91 Women, that I gave for the closing of my show at Homestead Valley Community Center, is here: The talk is about the 91 portraits I’ve painted and three books I’ve written since 2020 in honor of African American heroes who have been overlooked....
by caroljacobsen.org | Feb 12, 2024 | Art, Doing the Right Thing, Paintings
Bobbi Wilson 2013– In February of 2023 the Yale School of Public Health, after learning about 9-year-old Bobbi Wilson’s encounter with the police following her efforts to curb the presence of the invasive spotted lantern fly, honored her with a ceremony at Yale. ...
by caroljacobsen.org | Feb 12, 2024 | Art, Doing the Right Thing, Paintings
Maisie Brown 2001– In 2022, Maisie Brown helped with the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis, leading the effort to deliver drinking water to residents unable to access the city’s distribution centers. Clean drinking water had been an issue since 2010 when a winter...
