Jill Bullitt

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Jill Bullitt
Born
Jill Hamilton Bullitt

August 21, 1951
Seattle, Washington
United States
Alma mater Stanford University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Occupations
  • Artist
  • Academic
  • Political activist
Spouse David Rigsbee (divorced)
Children1
Parent(s)Charles Stimson Bullitt
Carolyn Kizer

Jill Hamilton Bullitt (born August 21, 1951) is an American artist, political activist, and academic.

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Early life and education

Bullitt was born on August 21, 1951, in Seattle, Washington.[ citation needed ] She is the daughter of the poet Carolyn Kizer and Charles Stimson Bullitt, an attorney. [1] She is from a prominent Seattle family descending from Alexander Scott Bullitt. [2] Her paternal grandmother, Dorothy Stimson Bullitt, was the founder of the King Broadcasting Company and the Bullitt Foundation. [3]

Bullitt graduated from Stanford University in 1973 and received a master of fine arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999.

Career

In 1978 Bullitt co-founded the Social Justice Fund, a foundation focusing on promoting solutions to social justice issues in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. [4] [5]

From 1989 until 1990, Bullitt served as the executive director of Dieu Donné Papermill in New York City. In 1995 she was appointed as a scholar-in-residence at Hamilton College. While in graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she worked as a teaching fellow. Bullitt has been a visiting lecturer in art at Duke University and University of Washington. She also served as an assistant professor of art at the University of Mount Olive and a professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design.[ citation needed ]

Marquis Who's Who listed Bullitt as a notable artist and educator.[ citation needed ] In 1993 she was a recipient of the David R. Hunter Founder's Award by A Territory Resource Foundation. In 2003 she was a finalist for an award in painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[ citation needed ]

Bullitt was president of the Friends of the International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture in Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy from 1993 until 2001 and is a co-founder of the El Salvador Media Education Project. She has also served as the executive director of the Boca Lupo Fund, co-director of The Energy Project at the Corporation Data Exchange, and a co-founder and board director of the Central American Media Education Project. [6] In 1996-97 she was a board director of the Threshold Foundation.[ citation needed ]

Bullitt is also a patron of the Museum of Northwest Art. [7]

Personal life

Bullitt was married to David Rigsbee, a poet and academic, for eighteen years before they divorced. [8] [9] [10]

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