Art for Social Justice and Positive Change #3

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Salon: Two Artists on the Creative Endeavor and Positive Change

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In 2020 and 2021, the Stowe Center commissioned two original works of art, one by multidisciplinary artist jackie sumell, director of Solitary Gardens, in honor of 2020 Stowe Prize winner Albert Woodfox, and the second by Judy Dworin of the Justice Dance Performance Project. These projects were designed to use creative expression to explore historical themes and social justice issues today. Both sumell’s Solitary Garden installation and Dworin’s collaborative dance and spoken-word performance, Emergence, address issues relating to incarceration and bridge community-based action with each artist’s creative impulse and practice, as discussed in the accompanying Salon.

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Hear artists jackie sumell and Judy Dworin in conversation about their work as activist-artists addressing contemporary social justice issues, especially the racial disparities of the criminal justice system and the process of community return for formerly incarcerated individuals. jackie sumell is a multidisciplinary artist who has spent the last two decades working directly with incarcerated folx, most notably her elders, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe, and she has received numerous residencies and fellowships. Judy Dworin is a dance/theater artist and educator committed to inspiring social action through her work with the Justice Dance Performance Project (JDPP), which she founded in 1989. JDPP’s performance residency at York Correctional Institution for women that began in 2005 has catalyzed the development of a comprehensive arts residency program reaching out to incarcerated women and men, as well as their families. Judy is a Professor Emerita in Theater and Dance at Trinity College where she recently received an honorary doctoral degree of Fine Arts.

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Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker (1822-1907)
An ardent member of the woman’s suffrage movement, Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker joined in the cause along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Isabella was the first child of Lyman Beecher and his second wife, Harriet Porter Beecher.

Isabella began her education at Catharine Beecher’s Hartford Female Seminary and lived with her sister Mary Perkins. In 1841 she married John Hooker, a descendant of Thomas Hooker, the founder of Hartford. John Hooker was a lawyer and an abolitionist.

In the early 1860s Isabella got involved in the woman’s suffrage movement. Isabella joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as a member of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1869. She was a founding member of the Connecticut Woman’s Suffrage Association. Isabella’s ideas of equality were influenced by John Stuart Mills’ On Liberty and the Subjection of Women.

In 1871, Isabella organized the annual convention of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in Washington D.C. and presented her argument before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. Her husband, John Hooker, believed in his wife and supported her activities. He helped Isabella draft a bill to the Connecticut Legislature giving married women the same property rights as their husbands. The bill passed in 1877. Isabella annually submitted a bill granting women the right to vote, but it did not pass in her lifetime.