Tyler History Center
Youngstown, Ohio
The exhibition narrative of Untold Stories: Youngstown objectified outmoded imagery of my blighted ‘Rust Belt’ hometown and employed these symbols as allegories to evoke questions about neighborhood decay and gentrification, segregation and integrated cities, generations of unemployment, and economic redevelopment. Exhibited at the Tyler History Center, I created archival photographic interventions and juxtaposed materials selected from the Mahoning Valley Historical Society holdings with my prints. I interviewed community members on camera for two Youngstown and the other Steel City.
Tim Francisco Interviews Jennifer Vanderpool for WYSU, Youngstown, Ohio
“Making Social Art in Youngstown,” in Car Bombs to Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology, edited by Jacqueline Marino. Second Edition. Cleveland: Belt Publishing, 2020.
Yes She Can: Women and the Steel Industry Panel
March 12, 2019
Eliese Colette Goldbach, Noted author and former steel mill worker, Cleveland, Ohio
Jacqueline Marino, Author and Associate Professor of Journalism, Kent State University
Mary E. Triece, Author and Professor in the School of Communication and Director of the Women Studies Program, The University of Akron
Moderated by Jennifer Vanderpool
Pittsburgh to Cleveland, 2018
84″ x 42″
Archival Photographic Intervention Print
Pittsburgh to Youngstown, 2018
36″ x 42″
Giclée Print
Youngstown to Toledo, 2018
36″ x 42″
Giclée Print
Nostalgia and Heavy Industry from Jennifer Vanderpool on Vimeo.
Women and Working Class Jobs from Jennifer Vanderpool on Vimeo.
Deindustrialization from Jennifer Vanderpool on Vimeo.
Defining Deindustrialization from Jennifer Vanderpool on Vimeo.
Crisis of Masculinity from Jennifer Vanderpool on Vimeo.
Redlining from Jennifer Vanderpool on Vimeo.
Education from Jennifer Vanderpool on Vimeo.
The Arts from Jennifer Vanderpool on Vimeo.
The Rust Belt and the Shape of Work from Jennifer Vanderpool on Vimeo.
Opiods from Jennifer Vanderpool on Vimeo.
Social Amnesia from Jennifer Vanderpool on Vimeo.
Social Justice and Political Will from Jennifer Vanderpool on Vimeo.
Boots on the Ground from Jennifer Vanderpool on Vimeo.
Exhibition Documentation
Historic Image, Steel Worker
Historic Image, Ukrainian Folk Festival Dancers
Historic Image, Shoppers at Strouss Department Store in Downtown Youngstown
Untold Stories, 2019 Exhibition Panel “Yes She Can: Women in Steel” from Jennifer Vanderpool on Vimeo.