Jacquelynn Baas is an independent curator, cultural historian, writer, and Director Emeritus of the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
[1] She has published on topics ranging from the history of the print media to Mexican muralism to Fluxus to Asian philosophies and practices as resources for European and American artists.
Her dissertation topic, Auguste Lepère and the Artistic Revival of the Woodcut in France, 1875-1895,[2] was the subject of a 1984 exhibition and catalogue[3] co-authored with Richard S. Field.
In 1982 Baas moved to Hanover, New Hampshire to serve as Chief Curator of the new Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, then being designed by Charles W. Moore with Centerbrook Architects.
Jacquelynn Baas has organized over thirty exhibitions, including the 1990 exhibition, The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty (ICA London; LAMOCA; BAMPFA; Hood Museum, Dartmouth; IVAM Valencia); No Boundary: Duchamp, Cage, and Mostly Fluxus at the 2006 Gwangju Biennale; and Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life.