jackie sumell, Spring 2021, Art, Technology, & Society Lecture Series

Authors

sumell jackie

Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

3-25-2021

Abstract

As a part of the St. Norbert College Art Department’s Art, Technology, & Society lecture series, jackie sumell delivered a Zoom lecture on March 25th, 2021. She is a multidisciplinary artist and activist whose work interrogates the abuses of the American criminal justice system. She is best known for her collaborative project with the late Herman Wallace, one of the former Angola 3 prisoners, entitled The House That Herman Built. This project is the subject of the critically acclaimed documentary film Herman's House. sumell is a 2013 Open Society Soros Justice Fellow, a 2015 Nathan Cummings Foundation Recipient, a 2015 Eyebeam Project Fellow, and a 2016 Robert Rauchenberg Artist as Activist Fellow. This lecture series was supported by the Faculty Mini-Grant Program through the Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice, and Public Understanding.

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