Jane Lackey, a fiber artist turned mixed media artist and 2014 American Craft Council Fellow, was born in 1948 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Lackey received her BFA from the California College of the Arts in Oakland and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. With much of her early career dedicated to the fiber arts, Lackey first joined the faculty at the Kansas City Art Institute as professor and chair of the fiber arts department from 1980 to 1997. Leaving Kansas City, Lackey returned to Cranbrook as the head of the fiber arts department until 2007. Lackey’s early work primarily focused on the use of fiber, though within the last few years, Lackey has turned more and more to mixed media presentation involving stickers, labels, tape, and dots, along with sewing, drawing, and painting on fabric. Her work has been included in numerous public collections, notably the Cranbrook Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Wellcome Trust in London, and the James A. Michener Collection at Kent State University in Kent. Lackey lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.