Garden of Good Grief by jackie sumell
The Office of Engagement at the Art Academy of Cincinnati hosts jackie sumell as the second Corrina Mehiel Artist in Residence from July 15 – July 18, 2022 and October 9 – 20, 2022.
jackie sumell 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 and The Solitary Gardens, a public art project that protests solitary confinement by inviting prisoners to design gardens sized at their six-by-nine foot cells, that are gardened by volunteers in collaboration with prisoners.
While in Cincinnati, sumell will be working with community to create and build the Garden of Good Grief at the future space for the Archive of Creative Culture in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Camp Washington.
The Garden of Good Grief is produced in collaboration with Mel Chin’s SOURCE Studio and the Corina Mehiel Residency with the Art Academy of Cincinnati and invites the general public to plant a seed in contemplation of grief in honor change or transformation.