Portfolio - Jacquie Clermont

Words & Art from the Heart

People told me for years that I could not do both writing and graphics. At least in my last job I did both for part of the day, but I kind of snuck myself into the graphics. Now as a freelance author and illustrator, I get to do both.

Shakespeare, created for social media post

Words from the Heart

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.

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Poem for the Disheartened

I wrote this during a particularly difficult time many years ago, but it resonates now. For those of you in hard places this summer.

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Two-Week Holy Week: Procession, Reflection, Explosion

Holy Week, like everything else in Mexico, is gloriously over the top; it is actually two weeks of fireworks, processions, concerts, and decorations.

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Hate DEI 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.

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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.

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Once I Left Ellen at the Top of the Stairs

She walked like a drunkard – Ellen ‐‐ always on the verge of tipping over, but my mom said she
had cerebral palsy.

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And Art

Portrait Quilt: Saint John at the Cross, created for Saint John’s church in Arlington, MA, where it now hangs.

Poster: Longfellow Bridge in the Fog. This is digital.

Portrait of Edgar Allen Poe, created for social post. Pen & ink with wash on vellum.

“What I’ve Learned” image. Created in Illustrator as main image for online newsletter.

Digital art created to illustrate an article.

Portrait of Colette, created for article