Virginia Jacobs

Born: Washington D.C. 1944.

Grew up in Baldwin, New York.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Major in Architecture, 1965, worked as a graphic designer for many Philadelphia architects adn museums. Her quilted fabric constructions received numerous national awards and were excihibited and published nationally adn internationally. She was introduced to Hawaii as a workshop teacher at the Pacific Friendship Quilt Conference in 1983 and lived there from 1989 to 1993. Five of her works are in the collection of the Hawaii State Foundation of Cutlure and the Arts. She gave workshops in Kansas City, Chicago, Columbus, San Francicso and New Jersey adn was Artist-in-Residence with her quilts at the American Craft Museum in New York. She was the receipient of a Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Fellowship and a travel grant from the Englsih Speaking Union of Philadelphia.

She studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and other arts institutions in Philadelphia and Florida in the 1990s and exhibited in many juried shows and galleries. She currently lives in Brookline, Massachusetts (2018).