Hampshire College

Jacqueline Hayden, professor of film and photography, has been a professional artist since 1979 when she received her Masters of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. Ms. Hayden has been a professor of film and photography at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts since 1991.

She has received numerous awards including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship for her photographs of nude older figure models titled Figure Model Series 1991 – 96. Figure Model Series and Ancient Statuary Series 1996 – 2000 have been shown in numerous museum exhibitions including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Alternative Museum in N.Y.C., Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut, National Museum of Bellas Artes and National Museum of Decorative Arts in Havana, Cuba. She has been an artist in residence at the Banff Center for the Arts in Alberta, Canada and at the American Academy in Rome, Italy.

In January 2002 and 2003, she and her students completed the first digital photographic archive of the old city of Havana, Cuba. This was a community service project done for the Office of the Historian in Havana, Cuba. September 2003 – July 2004, Ms. Hayden collaborated with Cuban dance troupe, Danza Voluminosa on a theater production, Una Muerte Dulce, staged at Teatro Nacional, Havana on July 4, 2004. Ms. Hayden has also collaborated with Cuban documentary filmmaker Lizette Vila on numerous projects, most recently the video Sexualidad about the Cuban tranvestite community. In 2005 she received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Arts Award. In April 2007 she had a solo exhibition at Artes Plasticas Galleria, Havana, Cuba.

Affiliations
School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies

Recent Courses
Division III Projects: Photography and Mixed Media: Sequence/Structure/Juxtaposition (Fall 2009)
Still Photography Workshop I: Digital Photography (Fall 2009)
Introduction to Media Arts: Post Cuban Revolution Cinema and Photographic Arts (Spring 2009)
Still Photography II: The Body and the Frame (Spring 2009)