Jennifer Vanderpool

A native of the Mahoning Valley in northeast Ohio, now working in Los Angeles, Jennifer Vanderpool is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and writer. Through her practice she values questioning, particularly the questioning of equity issues. Her social art practice investigates the working class and working-class labor. Her practice emerged after she embraced her disinvested hometown of Youngstown, Ohio. Her Ukrainian immigrant family’s stories serve as a creative foundation to investigate the lives of other manual, industrial, and agricultural laborers and their communities. She centers the traumas of disenfranchised peoples and the places they inhabit, and she highlights the cultural amnesia perpetuating the status quo. Vanderpool creates a storytelling platform within the mode of public discourse that underscores structural inequalities and calls for social reform. 

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