Title: Street angels
Description: Shellie Jacobson was born in Buffalo, New York. She attended Carnegie-Mellon University (BFA), and completed graduate studies at Rutgers, the State University (Ed. D). She maintains her studio in Skillman, New Jersey. Jacobson has been creating artists books for more than 10 years. She was a visiting artist at the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Her books were included in group exhibitions in many U.S. cities, as well as Costa Rica, Mexico and England. Her books are in permanent collections at the Newark Public Library, Ben Shahn Gallery and are published in Lark Books 500 Handmade Books.
Subjects: Violence, Pictorial works, Booksellers and bookselling, Bombings, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Protest movements, Books and reading in art, Intellectual life, Social conditions, Censorship, Terrorism in art, In art, War and civilization, Vehicle bombs, Visual literature, Specimens, Words in art, Books in art, Artists' books, Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Places: Iraq, Baghdad, New Jersey, Skillman
People: Shellie Jacobson
Time periods: 21st century