Jacquie Clermont - Author Illustrator

Author & Illustrator

Here find essays, poetry, and illustrations that put a light on injustice, draw insight from history, and argue for humanity.
I write about what I’ve learned over my sometimes difficult journey from a small blue-collar town to the Ivy League to France to academia to corporate America to life in Mexico. You win or you learn. I’ve done both.

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Art Quilts Completed

Just finished this two-year project to design and create portrait quilts depicting Saint John as a young man at the cross and as the author or a Gospel in his later years. The quilt on the right is the latest addition. Both quilts hang in Saint John’s Church, Arlington, MA. For more information about the project, I published an essay, “John Zebedeeson, Man for Our Time.”

Insight

“What I’ve Learned,” my LinkedIn newsletter, is where I reflect about life lessons from my life and career. Join me as I wade the rancid waters of politics, power, and personal l0ss.

Latest Post

New post in my LinkedIn newsletter, “What I’ve Learned.” Come to find out, ICE was always cold.

Border Patrol Abuse is “Systemic”

It’s been cruelty in your face for the past few weeks as we watch federal agents kidnap, gas, beat, and murder fellow Americans.

And yes, as an American, outrage has filled my heart and moral disgust my soul. If we just get these lumbering brutes back where they belong, all will be well again, right?

But where do the lumbering brutes belong?

At at our border?

Wait, what have they been doing (or what will they continue to do) to immigrants, whose suffering is safely hidden from our cellphone cameras and news crews?

Writing

Writing is my way of fighting for justice, respect, and reason.

How Immigration Made Us Great

Now in New York’s Neue Galerie, artist Gustav Klimt’s opulent “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer” is just one of the many gifts bestowed on the United States by Nazism and bigotry, along with multiple advances in art, culture, and the sciences.

Hate DEI Programs, but Love Free Markets? Read On.

What is holding women and minorities back? With more than 40 years in corporate, I think I’ve figured it out.

Here’s to a Crazy One

Everybody loves disrupters, but only after all the disrupting is over, when the disruption becomes the norm, and the disrupter becomes, say, CEO of Apple Computer. Or, as is more frequently the case, after the disrupter is burned, beheaded, shot, or indefinitely detained.

Art & Illustration

Although I just finished a project for a local church, I do not take commissions or sell my work unless it is part of a published article.

Poster: Longfellow Bridge in the Fog.

Portrait of Shakespeare, created for social post in Illustrator

Digital art created to illustrate an article.

Portrait Quilt: Saint John of the Cross. This quilt hangs in Saint John’s Church, Arlington, MA.

Portrait Quilt: Saint John writing Gospel. This quilt hangs in Saint John’s Church, Arlington, MA.