Veronica Jackson
From The Truth In This Art: Stories That Matter by Rob Lee
March 30, 2026 · 58 min · Season 11 · Episode 17
About this episode
Veronica Jackson discusses her journey as a visual artist and her exploration of the lives of Black women through innovative art.
In this episode of The Truth In This Art, the guest is Veronica Jackson! Who is Veronica Jackson: A Washington, D.C.-bred and Virginia-based visual artist whose foundation is rooted in architecture and museum exhibit design. She critically examines the lives of Black women through innovative visual art, exploring themes of invisibility, hypervisibility, and devaluation—bringing powerful narratives to life using familiar objects, archival texts, and data. In our conversation, Veronica traces her late-in-life arrival to visual art—graduating from grad school in 2016 with plans to teach, then attending a Santa Fe residency where "art just started pouring out of me." She breaks down her seminal piece That's Pops’s Money , a data portrait memorializing her grandmother's devalued domestic labor through 813 hand-cranked time cards printed in blue ink on black paper—chronicling 67 years of marriage, nine children, and invisible work. Veronica explains how she pulls from established archives like the Library of Congress, Sojourner Truth's carte de visite statement "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance," Jefferson's Farm Book (which listed enslaved workers alongside cattle), and…
People in this episode
Host: Rob Lee
Guest: Veronica Jackson
Topics covered
- visual art
- Black women
- invisibility
- hypervisibility
- devaluation
- storytelling
- data portrait
Keywords
- visual artist
- Black women
- data portrait
- invisibility
- hypervisibility
- devaluation
- storytelling
- art residency
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Library of Congress
Books & works: That's Pops’s Money
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