Marion E. Jackson was born in Saginaw, Michigan, and received a Ph.D. in History of Art from the University of Michigan in 1985. She is Professor of Art History at Wayne State University in Detroit , Michigan. She has been involved in curating several exhibitions of Inuit art, including Inuit Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene B. Power (University of Michigan , 1979); The Vital Vision: Drawings by Ruth Annaqtuusi Tulurialik (with David Pelly, Art Gallery of Windsor , 1986); Contemporary Inuit Drawings (with Judith Nasby Macdonald and Stewart Art Centre and the University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1987); Parr (Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, 1988); and Pudlo: Thirty Years of Drawings (with Marie Routledge, NationalGallery of Canada, 1990).