C.V.
Jill Pridemore
Curator · Educator · Artist · Adventurer · Mom
Where she's lived
Life Arc
Childhood
Fort Worth, Texas
Born and raised in North Texas — early love of art, color, big open skies, and the kind of front-porch storytelling that travels with her everywhere.
Young adulthood
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A northern-cities chapter — cold winters, museums, music, and the first real taste of a life built around culture, curiosity, and community.
Early Maui years
Maui, Hawaiʻi
First arrival on the island that would become home. Salt air, plumeria, and a slow-growing sense that Hawaiʻi was a long conversation she wanted to be part of.
Degree
New Mexico — Taos & Albuquerque
Months in the high desert — adobe walls, lowriders, Indigenous art, and the cultural mosaic of the Southwest. Where she sharpened her eye for the way communities make beauty out of everyday life.
Degree
Chicago — School of the Art Institute
Studied in one of the country's great art cities. Thesis: lowrider culture as a serious visual art form — paint, chrome, ritual, identity.
Now
Maui, Hawaiʻi
Director of the Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum. Mom to Pepper. Sister to Amanda. Stewarding Maui's plantation-era memory while still making new work, new trips, and new family every year.
From the archive
A Life in Pictures
What she does
Professional
Puʻunēnē, Maui, Hawaiʻi
Director
Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum
Leads one of Maui's most important cultural institutions — preserving the story of plantation-era Hawaiʻi, the people who worked the cane, and the landscape they shaped.
Maui, Hawaiʻi
Cultural Programmer & Educator
Maui institutions, schools, and community spaces
Two decades of programming, exhibitions, and education work — connecting visitors, kids, and kūpuna to the art, history, and place of Hawaiʻi.
Borneo · Peru · Malaysia · Colombia
Co-Creator
Jungle to Jungle (with Amanda Wilson)
A sister-made adventure documentary project: wild places, animal intelligence, and what happens when two curious women point a camera at the world.
Where she studied
Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Degree · Thesis: lowrider culture as a visual art form
University of New Mexico
Degree · Taos & Albuquerque