Visual artist • Photographer • Storyteller
Jackie
Daphnis
Exploring identity, memory, culture, and transformation through painting, photography, drawing, and mixed media.
Featured work: Roots in Reflection
Exploring identity, memory, culture, and transformation through painting, photography, drawing, and mixed media.
Jackie Daphnis is an 11th grade student at Albert Einstein High School in Montgomery County, Maryland, where she is enrolled in the Visual Arts Center, Montgomery County Public Schools’ county-wide fine arts magnet program. She maintains a 4.8 GPA and is recognized for her commitment to academic excellence, artistic growth, leadership, and service.
Her visual work spans painting, photography, drawing, and mixed media, with recurring attention to identity, culture, memory, Black beauty, and the stories carried through families and communities.
A selection of Jackie's pieces, across various mediums and timeframes.
Award-winning ACT-SO photography portfolio documents Black hair spaces as sites of craft, care, transformation, and cultural inheritance. Regional Gold Medal Winner, advancing to the national ACT-SO competition in Chicago in July 2026.
Additional paintings, drawings, studies, mixed-media works, and experimental pieces.