Jaclyn Silverman is an artist from Youngstown, Ohio, currently living and working in Chicago, Illinois. Her work thinks about the significance of place determined by the dynamics of family and community cultural relationships through environmental portraiture and landscape made by means of educational photographic collaborations and public projects. As Founding Artistic Director and piloting artist-in-residence with Chicago artist residency and non-profit organization, CPS Lives, Silverman maintained an independent arts program and project on Chicago’s far southeast side with students from George Washington High School and residents of the Hegewisch neighborhood from 2017-2023. Commissioned by Theaster Gates, Silverman’s photographic installations of the Johnson Publishing Company archives were published in part of the exhibition, A Johnson Publishing Story at Stony Island Arts Bank. collectively reinstating departmental portfolio exchanges, she co-curated the archive based exhibition Within the Portfolios 1968-2016; a History of Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. SILVERMAN IS RETURNING faculty with Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency and the development manager for the museum of contemporary photography at columbia college chicago (mOCP). Silverman received her BFA from The Ohio State University and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.