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Jackson Cheatham was born in Columbia, Tennessee, in 1945. After serving in the United States Navy, he attended the Atlanta College of Art (ACA, now the Atlanta campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design), where he studied with Keith Rasmussen and Norman Wagner. He earned a bachelor of fine arts degree at ACA and a master of fine arts degree at the University of Georgia (UGA). He was the adjunct professor of printmaking at ACA; director of visual arts at the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center in Madison, Georgia; professor at UGA and at Augusta State University (now Augusta University), where he directed the Mary S. Byrd Gallery. Now retired, he continues to live and work in a home and studio he built himself in Thomson, Georgia. 

-Mutual Art Biography