Jackie Sumell

2007 awareness campaign in collaboration with fellow activist Carrie Reichardt, UK
Jackie Sumell
Born (1973-06-11) June 11, 1973 (age 51)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Alma materCollege of Charleston, B.S.
Stanford University, M.F.A.
Occupation(s)Artist, author, activist

Jackie Sumell (born 1973) is an American 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 a critically acclaimed documentary film aired on PBS entitled Herman's House.

Sumell is a 2007 Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellow, a 2013 Open Society Soros Justice Fellow,[1] a 2015 Nathan Cummings Foundation Recipient, a 2015 Eyebeam Project Fellow[2] and a 2016 Robert Rauchenberg Artist as Activist Fellow.[3]

  1. ^ "Introducing the 2013 Soros Justice Fellows". Open Society Foundations. Retrieved 10 Nov 2013.
  2. ^ "Jackie Sumell | eyebeam.org". archive.eyebeam.org. Retrieved 2016-10-06.
  3. ^ "jackie sumell". 2016-06-01. Retrieved 2016-10-06.