Jack Brockette is a native Texan. He received his Master's degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and taught K-Graduate School during his forty years as a classroom teacher and administrator. He served as Art Supervisor of the Dallas Public Schools. The year he retired, Jack received several awards: Teacher of the Year for Irving HS and the Irving School District; and Texas State Teacher of the Year for Administrators of Special Education; and Robert Rauschenberg Award at the National Gallery in Washington, DC.

Jack's work has been exhibited in juried and invitational shows throughout the US and in Europe. In 2006, he curated and exhibited in the Interpretive Pojagi show in Perth, Australia; was one of the featured artists in Man + Woman = Creativity in San Juan, Costa Rica; and was one of thirty artists in TransFORMations sponsored by the Studio Art Quilt Associates in Manchester, England. This show is traveling throughout the US for the next two years.

Jack hand-dyes silk organza, cottons, and makes art quilts and clothing using the pojagi method of sewing. His work is in several corporate and private collections.

Artist's Statement
Each artist is not a special kind of person but each person is a special kind of artist.
This statement exemplifies my life as an artist and arts educator. For me, art is my ongoing attempt to engage others in the work that I create. If I can leave the viewer wondering about the many possibilities of the work, I believe I have been successful. My work is not my attempt to show or to lecture on what is, but to nudge, suggest, and to stimulate a response from the inner life of the viewer. When people look at my work, I would like them to become fully engaged, and to be more cognizant of their own ideas and feelings about my creations. In the end, my work is a stimulus for self-reflection and awareness, for the discovery of our own unique qualities as thinking and feeling human beings.

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Mission Statement
The North Dallas Artist Studio Tour is an educational art event that invites the public into working studios of North Dallas artists, allowing an intimate view of the creative process. The Tour seeks to raise public awareness of the quality and diversity of artwork being produced by local artists and to demonstrate that art adds meaning and richness to community life.