jacqueline s. dulin
Jacqueline S. Dulin is a working artist, former designer for the Smithsonian Institution, gallery founder, NCMA docent, and dog mom living in Raleigh/Garner, NC. Her oil paintings, which include a diverse range of abstract, landscape, portraiture, and still life, explore the rich interplay between line, form, and color and their relationship to emotion and spirituality.
Originally from the Washington, D.C. area, Jacqueline earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and art history from James Madison University. Her professional life was spent as an interactive designer where her decade-long experience included tenure with the Smithsonian Institution's Freer and Sackler Galleries and with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. After leaving the field of design, Jacqueline opened SignificantForm Studio in Raleigh, NC. As a working artist, her work has won various awards, been shown in many juried and solo exhibitions, and is currently held in private collections. She also joined the North Carolina Museum of Art as a docent in 2010.
In 2014 SignificantForm Studio relocated to Mitrovica, Kosovo where Jacqueline continued to pursue painting while investing in the local arts community as an art teacher at the Kosovo Leadership Academy. Three years later she founded the Kosovo Art Exchange Gallery (KAE), a non-profit NGO arts organization and gallery, located in downtown Mitrovica. Jacqueline aspired to provide opportunities for young visual artists that would foster their career advancement as well as to increase community awareness, appreciation, and support of local artists through partnership on special projects. In total, she developed, curated, and implemented 14 exhibitions.
Until its closure in October 2019, Jacqueline managed and oversaw all areas of gallery operations as the Executive Director including fundraising and budgeting, exhibition schedules, developing community programs and partnerships, hiring, supervising, and training staff and volunteers, creating a high school internship program and providing art direction for marketing and social media in English and Albanian. In addition, she was able to reach a wider community demographic with programs such as music concerts, movie nights, artist critiques, ESL with art, game nights, and poetry nights.
Today Jacqueline has resumed painting from her home studio and continues to docent at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, where she lives with her husband, Danny, and their chocolate lab, Jasper. Her favorite artists include Mark Rothko, Richard Diebenkorn, Beverly McIver, Makoto Fujimura, Xu Bing, and El Anatsui. Some of her favorite Kosovo contemporary artists are Alketa Xhafa Mripa, Alban Muja, and Petrit Halilaj.