Darla Jackson joined the United States Mint as a Medallic Artist in 2024. Before her appointment, she was a member of the Citizen’s Coinage Advisory Committee in 2023, as the member specifically qualified in Sculpture/Medallic Arts. Jackson earned a BFA in Sculpture from Moore College of Art in 2003. In 2012, after receiving two John S. and James L. Knight Arts Challenge Grants, she founded the Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, a membership-based community sculpture studio that she ran until 2016.

As a professional sculptor, Jackson’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally. Her notable exhibitions include shows at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Barnes Foundation, and Arch Enemy Arts Gallery in Philadelphia. Nationally, her work has been displayed at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA, Thinkspace Gallery in Culver City, CA, and Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, SC. Internationally, Jackson has exhibited in Belgium and at Feinkunst Kruger in Hamburg, Germany.

Jackson has received several prestigious awards, including the Jane B. Armstrong Memorial Award from the National Sculpture Society in 2018, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Moore College of Art in 2023. Her commissions have been featured in private and public spaces, including the Union League of Philadelphia, the Eagles for Autism Foundation and Founding Farmers Restaurants in Washington, D.C., and King of Prussia, PA.

With over twenty years of experience as an educator, Jackson has taught sculpture processes such as figurative sculpture, mold making, and bronze casting at universities and colleges including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Tyler School of Art. She is a member of the American Medallic Sculpture Association, the National Sculpture Society, and serves as a board member for Philadelphia Sculptors.