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Jacquelynn Baas was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and attended Michigan State University (BA Art History 1971) and the University of Michigan (MA Art History 1973, PhD 1982). Her museum career was spent at university art museums: the University of Michigan Museum of Art (Registrar, Assistant to the Director, Editor, Bulletin of the Museums of Art and Archaeology, 1974-82), the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College (Chief Curator, Director, 1982-88), and the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Director, 1989-99, Emeritus Director 1999- ). She left the museum field in 1999 to devote herself to writing, although she still consults and serves as guest curator for museum exhibitions. Baas was co-founder and director of the arts consortium Awake: Art, Buddhism, and the Dimensions of Consciousness (1999-2004), and is curator of the exhibition "Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life," currently traveling from The Hood Museum, Dartmouth College (through August 8, 2011), to the Grey Art Gallery, NYU (Fall 2011), to the University of Michigan Museum of Art (February - May, 2012). She continues to research, write, and lecture about the many ways artists working in the U.S. and Europe use Asian philosophy as a resource, as well as other topics including the Mexican muralists, Fluxus, and contemporary art and artists. She lives and works at The Sea Ranch, California.