An outstanding artist and sculptor, John Stewart Jackson earned his Bachelor in Fine Arts (BFA) with an emphasis on sculpture from Birmingham-Southern College. He was voted top BFA student by the college’s Department of Art and Art History in his graduating year in 2001.
After college, John Stewart spent six years as an Artist-in-Residence and Foundry Manager at Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark in Birmingham, Alabama. As part of the Sloss Metal Arts Program, he taught the process of casting sculpture and metal fabrication to students from elementary, junior high and high schools in Alabama and in the South-Eastern US as well as universities across the US. He also held solo and group exhibitions in Alabama, New Jersey, New Mexico, California and Georgia.
John Stewart’s work among his many commissions includes making trophies for Birmingham’s Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival and building a dedication triptych for the Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts, Gadsden, Alabama. John Stewart has also participated in cast-iron art performances and demonstrations in iron, bronze and aluminium casting across the US. He was voted by the Amanda Schedler Fine Art Gallery as one of Birmingham’s best young artists in 2005.