Lucy Julia Hale
Visual artist based in Atlanta, Georgia
ABOUT
Growing up in the deep South on the shifting cusp of change around the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Lucy Julia Hale experienced wrenching institutionalized social injustice that especially brutalized black citizens and women. In college, she exerienced police brutality, being jailed with SCLC protesters. Later she was a court watcher for Southern Poverty Law Center in volatile racist trials in south Georgia. She has participated in various Quaker social justice initiatives. Her collages have been selected in numerous national juried exhibitions. Her work has been published in The Chattahoochee Review, Metadada: The International Journal of Dada Mining, and Hand Magazine. She received the Reece Museum Award from the 2017 Fl3tch3r Exhibition: Social and Politically Engaged Art, and the Jurors' Award from the 2018 10x10x10xTieton Exhibition. Member of The National Collage Society (Signature Member), Georgia Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Georgia WCA Arts + Activism Task Force, Alabama Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Athica, Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts, Alabama Women’s March. Lucy Julia Hale has a B. S. in Art Education and an M. S. and Ed. S. in Counseling and Educational Psychology.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Guided by early Surrealist Collagists, I am drawn to see deeply into scenes from our cultural archives of mass-produced illustrations and vintage found photos depicting where we have lived, and to add images as new witnesses to these portrayals to depose the secrets of how we have lived inside, outside, and between the walls that are our shared architectural bodies, built to shelter but also to shape and contain us (our sanctuary or our prison).
Website: www.walltowallsecrets.com