We are overjoyed that Jackie Terrassa has joined the SkyART Board of Directors. Sarah Ward, Executive Director, met Jackie in 2003 when taking a group of young people on a field trip to the Smart Museum and was reacquainted with her in 2014 on a special visit to the Art Institute hosted by James Rondeau. It was so nice to have her back in the city, we just couldn’t pass on the opportunity to engage her with SkyART on a deeper level. She brings invaluable skills and expertise to the organization.

Jackie is now the Woman’s Board Endowed Chair of Museum Education at The Art Institute of Chicago. Prior she was Managing Museum Educator for Gallery and Studio Programs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, led public programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, worked as Head of Planning at the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and served in several leadership positions at the University of Chicago’s David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art. Terrassa has earned national recognition for her leadership and insight during recent tenures as the director of the Museum Education Division of the National Art Education Association, and her service as panelist and advisor for various agencies, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, the Joyce Foundation, and the Terra Foundation for the Arts, among others.

Welcome Jackie!