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Assistant Professor, Art/Art History
Professional Service
- Friends of Great Salt Lake.
Role: Visual Arts Juror.
Visual Arts Juror, 9th Annual Alfred Lambourne Prize
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06/01/2022 - 06/30/2022
- Salt Lake City Arts Council.
Interdisciplinary Advisory Committee
Finch Lane Gallery
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07/15/2019 - 12/31/2019
Internal Service
- Art Teaching Search Committee, Tenure Track Faculty Search.
Member,
09/06/2021 - 04/26/2022.
Department service.
- Committee for Equity and Accountability, Department of Art & Art Histoy.
Member,
09/01/2020 - present.
Department service.
- CFA Grants Committee .
08/19/2019 - 05/02/2022.
College service.
- Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Review Committee .
01/07/2019 - 05/01/2020.
College service.
- Department Review Committee.
Member,
01/01/2019 - present.
Department service.
- Scholarship Committee
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Chair,
08/20/2018 - present.
Department service.
- Photography Club.
Faculty Advisor,
08/20/2018 - present.
Department service.
- Photography Lighting Studio.
Coordinator,
08/20/2018 - present.
Department service.
- Learning Abroad, Office for Global Engagement, Photography Scholarship
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Selection Committee,
08/20/2018 - present.
University service.
Honors & Awards
- The Magenta Foundation, Un-Stuck Photography Grant, Shortlist
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The Magenta Foundation,
11/18/2022
- GOST Books & Unseen Publishing Award, London / Amsterdam
A photo book designed, edited, printed, and published by GOST imprint, including distribution, press, and promotion. There were 353 entrants from 40 countries.
GOST Books & Unseen Amsterdam,
09/14/2022
- Early Career Teaching Award, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
The Early Career Teaching Awards recognizes six outstanding faculty across the entire University of Utah campus at an early stage in their careers.
University of Utah,
03/14/2022
- Artist Career Advancement Scholarship, Utah Division of Arts & Museums, Salt Lake City, UT.
Utah Division of Arts & Museums,
01/20/2022
- The Print Center’s 96th Annual International Competition, Semifinalist, Philadelphia, PA
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The Print Center,
11/19/2021
- Collections Engagement Grant, Salt Lake City, UT
$4,900 for the purchase of equipment, hiring a studio assistant, and production of new work.
Utah Museum of Fine Arts & J. Willard Marriott Library ,
07/12/2021
- Course Release, College of Fine Arts Grants Program, University of Utah, Fall 2021
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College of Fine Arts,
04/05/2021
- Digital Matters Lab Faculty Performance Grant, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
$5,000 for the purchase of equipment, hiring studio assistants, and production of new work.
Digital Matters Lab,
11/02/2020
- National Photography Award, Houston, TX
- Solo exhibition, $2,000 award and press during Fotofest 2020.
Texas Photographic Society,
11/15/2019
- Honorable Mention, Annual Exhibition, Salt Lake City, UT
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Utah Division of Arts & Museums,
11/16/2018
In the Media
- Artists in Focus: Jaclyn Wright, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. 05/16/2022.
https://utahmoca.org/artists-in-focus-studio-visit...
- Blaze Orange Uses Photography to Question the “American West” by Scotti Hill, Hyperallergic. 04/07/2022.
https://hyperallergic.com/719537/jaclyn-wright-use...
- Marked - Jaclyn Wright, Interview w/ Daniel George, Lenscratch. 01/17/2022.
http://lenscratch.com/2022/01/jaclyn-wright-marked...
- The Rough Landscape of Women’s Existence by Hannah McBeth, Slug Magazine. 01/04/2022.
https://www.slugmag.com/arts/art/the-rough-landsca...
- Land Body w/ Jaclyn Wright & Wendy Wischer, RadioACTive on KRCL. 12/10/2021.
https://krcl.org/blog/radioactive-121021/
- Jaclyn Wright, Interview w/ Natalie Hegert, Southwest Contemporary. 10/29/2021.
https://southwestcontemporary.com/studio-visit-jac...
- A Space in Time, Zoe Zorka, Slug Magazine. 09/29/2021.
https://www.slugmag.com/arts/art/a-space-in-time-s...
- Artist Interview, Artifice Podcast with Emily Merrell. 08/12/2021.
https://soundcloud.com/user-919799551/ep-104-jacly...
- Film Photo Award Finalist & Standouts by Eliot Dudik. 05/08/2021.
http://lenscratch.com/2021/05/film-photo-award-fav...
- Marked - Jaclyn Wright, Artist Feature, In the In-Between. 04/04/2021.
https://www.inthein-between.com/jaclyn-wright-mark...
- SF Camerawork Annual Exhibition by Daniella Lake, The Daily Californian. 11/06/2020.
https://www.dailycal.org/2020/11/06/sf-camerawork-...
- Photography Issue: Jaclyn Wright by Paige Zuckerman, Slug Magazine. 06/04/2020.
https://www.slugmag.com/arts/art/jaclyn-wrights-mu...
- Utah Women at the forefront of art and activism by Julie Hirschi, Exhibition Review. 03/22/2020.
https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2020/03/22/meet-...
- Women to the Front by Bianca Velasquez, Exhibition Review. 03/05/2020.
https://www.slugmag.com/arts/art/interviews-featur...
- Jaclyn Wright, Feature - standardcameras.com. 07/24/2019.
https://www.standardcameras.com/2019/07/24/notch-c...
- Jaclyn Wright, Feature - aint-bad.com . 06/03/2019.
https://www.aint-bad.com/article/2019/06/03/jaclyn...
- Emerging Artist Feature, Interview w/ Evan Hume, Yield Magazine - www.yieldmagazine.org
. 02/01/2019.
https://008.yieldmagazine.org/62/?fbclid=IwAR0Uny-...
- Interview w/ Rana Young, Images Published. 10/09/2018.
https://www.photo-emphasis.com/artists/jaclyn-wrig...
- "In Their Own Words" by Gregory Eddi Jones, Exhibition Review . 06/14/2018.
https://www.inthein-between.com/in-their-own-words...
- "Re: Art Show 21" by Adam Lehrer, Exhibition Review. 05/21/2018.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamlehrer/2018/05/21...