Lottie Wilson Jackson

Charlotte Wilson Jackson (c. 1854 – January 16, 1914) was an American artist and activist from Michigan. She was the first African American to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1901, Wilson oversaw the exhibition of African-American artists at the Pan-American Exposition.

She signed her name as "Lottie Wilson" on her paintings and sculpture.

Biography Lottie Wilson was born in about 1854 in Niles, Michigan. As an adult, she was a resident of Bay City, Michigan, and had an art studio there that was open to the public. In 1901, Wilson moved to Washington, D.C. to open an art studio where she held art exhibits and taught classes until 1905. She was married three times; first at the age of 18 to James Huggart, then to John Jackson, and then in 1906 to Daniel Moss. She had three children with her first husband, none of them surviving childhood.

Wilson died on January 16, 1914, in Niles.