US-UK Fulbright Artist Fellow, University of Liverpool
Untold Stories: Liverpool crafts a social history of each deindustrialized Midwest city where the exhibit occurs. As a 2021-22 US-UK Fulbright Artist Fellow at the University of Liverpool, I investigated relationships between these cities and those in the Industrial North of England through a photographic and video narrative project that included stories from noted American and British authors, scholars and activists.
This was an exhibition of prints that included a co-produced community engagement storytelling project with the Redbrick Writers. The Redbrick Writers wrote stories and poems in dialogue with select work from my Untold Stories exhibitions. We produced a book of my imagery and their poems and a video recording of them reading their works.
Symposium Panelist at Across the Pond
‘Communities, Storytelling, and Cultural Institutions’
Organizers: US-UK Fulbright Commission, London
Zoom Webinar
July 20, 2021
Communities, Storytelling and Cultural Institutions explored the role of cultural institutions – such as museums, art galleries and libraries – in wider society. People of all walks of life visit cultural institutions as part of everyday leisure activities, to appreciate and experience cultural artifacts. But digging deeper, what role do they have on shaping society itself?
What is their effect on communities, and how do they help keep citizens engaged in the conservation of culture and heritage? How would society change if cultural institutions disappeared completely?
Jennifer conversed with Dr. Alison Eardley, senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Westminster. Alison is a Fulbright scholar at the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum exploring place-identity, belonging, memory, and the relationship between the museum and its local communities.
Dr. Louise Siddons, an art history professor at Oklahoma State University and the British Library Eccles Centre Scholar Fulbright Awardee, moderated the discussion.
Liverpool, 2022
42” x 88”
Archival Photographic Intervention Pigment Print on Paper
Cleveland to Liverpool, 2020
84” x 84”
Archival Photographic Intervention Pigment Print on Paper
Liverpool to Youngstown, 2021
36” x 48”
Archival Photographic Intervention Pigment Print on Paper
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Leiden, Netherlands | 2020
“Performing Imaginary Life,” Sensing Style: Subcultural Movements in the 21st Century, Leiden University
Ha Noi, Vietnam | 2021
Keynote Speaker, 'Surviving the Fantasies of Modernization' Ha Noi Ad Hoc and RMIT Vietnam, with support from UNESCO
Flyer for Keynote Speaker, 'Surviving the Fantasies of Modernization'
Ha Noi Ad Hoc and RMIT Vietnam, with support from UNESCO, Ha
Noi, VietnamJennifer discussed her ongoing project, Garment Girl, which investigates women's labor in the global textile industry.
Her co-presenter was Mila Rosenthal, a human rights educator and professor at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights. She spoke about the March 8 Textile Factory, a significant site for the Vietnamese Communist Party's efforts in the 1960s and 1970s to manufacture a modern socialist society, economy, city, and family.
Michal Teague, Design Studies Lecturer at RMIT Hanoi City campus, moderated the discussion.
July 27, 2021
Quito, Ecuador| 2021
Artist Talk, Flores para el Trueque Museo de Arte, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
November 18, 2021
Cardiff, Wales | 2022
Global Wales Fulbright Forum
April 8, 2022
Liverpool, UK | 2022
Centre for the Culture of Everyday Life, the University of Liverpool
Derby, UK | 2025
Untold Stories: Social Activism through Art and Research Arts and Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield
Los Angeles, CA | 2023
Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture, Otis College of Art and Design
Sheffield, UK | 2023
Creating Thriving Post-Industrial Cities, Festival of Debate
Flyer for Symposium Creating Thriving Post-Industrial Cities, Festival of Debate, Sheffield, UK
Jennifer and Dr. Lizzy Craig-Atkins, from the University of Sheffield, co-organized this event.
The symposium evolved from Jennifer Vanderpool's ongoing social practice art exhibitions, Untold Stories, a series of community-specific and site-responsive exhibitions that have occurred in the Deindustrialized Midwest Region of the U.S.A. and the Industrial North of England. Panellists offered multivocal perspectives, including workers, activists, artists, and scholars from Liverpool, UK; Sheffield, UK; Akron, Ohio; and Youngstown, Ohio.
May 22, 2023
Birkenhead, UK | 2023
Crafting a Vibrant Future, Open Door Charity
Flyer for Artist Talk and Craftivism Workshop at Open Door Charity.
Birkenhead, UK.
May 31, 2023
Belfast, Northern Ireland | 2024
Queen Mary’s University Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time, Summer Institute
Flyer for Lecture, Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time, Summer Institute, Queen Mary’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Jennifer co-taught the Graduate Workshop Integrating Arts-Based and Community-Based Approaches in Post-Industrial Memory Research with Dr. Guilherme Pozzer from the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
June 2024
Glasgow, Scotland | 2024
Gender, Family and Deindustrialization, University of Strathclyde Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time, Annual Conference
Sheffield, UK | 2024
Crafting the Past, University of Sheffield
Flyer for Artist Talk
Empowering Communities through Creative Writing, Visual Narratives, Memory, and Place-Making, The University of Sheffield.
June 29, 2024
Sheffield, UK | 2024
Festival of Archeology, Council for British Archaeology
Flyer for Workshops, Sheffield Crafting the Past Online Workshops, Council for British Archaeology.
Dr. Gui Posser and Dr. Jennifer Vanderpool offered online workshops on creative writing and visual storytelling to address challenges faced by post-industrial communities.
July 27, 2024, and August 2, 2024
Los Angeles, CA | 2025
Call Festival, UCLA School of Law
Flyer for Artist Talk, Connecting Art and Law for Liberation, UCLA Law School
Visionary artists, activists, attorneys, advocates, legal scholars, and community members shared innovative, cutting-edge collaborations at the intersection of ART and LAW - aimed at imagining a world without prisons, policing, and surveillance.
Presented with Los Angeles-based curator Rachel Schmid.
April 19, 2025
Derby, UK | 2025
CivicLAB Annual Conference, University of Derby
Flyer for Artist Talk, CivicLAB Annual Conference, University of Derby
Neighbourhood Assembly: Arts-led, co-productive research & practice for comfortable, energy-efficient homes, green skills and quality jobs, and thriving places.
Presented with Dr Rachel Macrorie, Nottingham Trent University.
June 25, 2025