ARTIST STATEMENT
Many children fantasize about the fun of becoming invisible at will. My work brings into focus by collaged scenes the un-fun fate of girls as they grow into women and have societal invisibility imposed on them in order to discount, justify, and hide the profoundly hurtful injustices also imposed on them because of their gender.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lucy Julia Hale began her life-long commitment to advocacy by leading a protest against racist extracurricular policy in her newly integrated high school. Growing up in Georgia on the cusp of needed social change around the 1964 Civil Rights Act, she saw entrenched injustice brutalizing black and women citizens. She has continued to devote herself to protecting and enriching lives, especially those of vulnerable populations, which unfortunately now include all creatures sharing our earth. She has worked with various activist organizations, including NAACP, SCLC, various environmental, criminal justice reform, and voting rights groups, and serving as president of LWV and AAUW chapters. A new advocacy commitment important to her is defending teachers, students, and librarians from invasive Orwellian censorship.
Her art has been selected for numerous national juried exhibitions and publications. Recent artistic awards include East Tennessee University’s Reece Museum Award as their staff’s favorite exhibitor of socially and politically engaged art, 2017; Jurors’ Award for the 2018 10x10x10xTieton Exhibition; the 2021 Appalachian Artist from the Reece Museum and the Sammie L. Nicely Center; and a 2022 Collage Artists of America honorable mention exhibitor award. She is a member of Women’s Caucus for the Arts; Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts; Atlanta Collage Society; ATHICA; and the Woman Made Gallery; is a Signature Member of the National Collage Society and gallerist for Anamchara Gallery. She holds a B. S. in Art Education and an M. S. and Ed. S. in Counseling and Educational Psychology.
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